The good folks of Cobourg brought poetry to the sidewalks on the weekend. 500 poems were posted around town by poets sending in their own works to be displayed on store windows. Here’s a clip of how it looked. What a fun idea. Watch Mandy Robinson reads a love poem, “like a light” by Pearl […]
Category archives: Poetry reading write-up
Zine Off 4
We finally made it to Pressed Cafe on Gladstone. They are tying into the community with all sorts of events. Bri took a picture from the outside. I haven’t been to quite this kind of thing before. It has something of a small press fair to it, a Ravenswing event with only papery things. Or […]
Factory Series: Francheteau, de Meijer, Jacobs
Arc member Brecken Hancock was the host for the roomful assembled for the Factory Series on November 29th. The series, like above/ground press, is in its 20th year. First up was JM Francheteau . He is a rural transplant based in Ottawa. His writing has appeared in CV2, The Steel Chisel, Bywords and his blog. […]
Taylor, Dempster and Domanski
Tree Seed Workshop with Bruce Taylor was looking at rhetorical device of sound, cacophony and euphony with discussion around sample poems contrasting techniques of Edith Sitwell, Charles Olsen, Stephen Morrissey, Eric Ormsby, Phillip Larkin, Ezra Pound, George Eliot Clarke, Mary Oliver, Paul Muldoon, Louis Dudek and Derek Walcott. 18 people came to the round table […]
Plan 99: Hall and Corral
Plan 99 did a Versefest fundraiser with Phil Hall and Eduardo C. Corral. And there were door prize draws of a bag of books each from Anansi, Brick and Arc. Phil Hall’s most recent book of poems is called The Small Nouns Crying Faith (BookThug, 2013). Hall was the 2011 winner of the Governor General’s […]