Love Calls Us Here: poems by Chris Anderson (Wildhouse Poetry, 2024) Love Calls Us Here: Poems by Chris Anderson (Wildhouse Poetry, 2024) is an enjoyable book to read and re-read. Like many in the publisher’s lineup there’s a love for the natural world. As poet and editor Michael Cuddihy once remarked on poetry, “How moving, […]
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Ottawa small press fair
The Ottawa Small Press Book Fair, spring 2024 is Saturday, June 22, 2024 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road (NOTE NEW LOCATION) near Hintonburg from noon to 5pm. My spring project has been to black out my book of 2010, to turn been shed bore into she or. I made a pdf version […]
Atkinson in town
7pm Thursday May 16 — Biblio Wakefield Library, the next Poetea event with featured reader Susan Jane Atkinson. Bring a poem to share on this month’s theme “Memory”, bonus if you have written one on the same theme.
Maybe, done
There should be a name for stages of done. Manuscript at the point of hope and despair: Despe. Manuscript escaping its own dire suckage: Dirkage Manuscript ready for trusted eyes to see: Peepage. Manuscript ready to send out to a publisher: HahaLastDraft The problem with editing is that it is addictive. It supplants the need […]
Poetry Techniques Workshop Series
Generative Poetics Techniques: Shaking Up Your Practice The more tools in the box, the better. The more experience, the more automatically we can grab the right tool for most effective manipulation and pleasure of our readers/listening. We each have our pet subjects, syntax, stanza shapes. How to not stand in our own way? Poetry is […]