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Like above/ground and all the poetry plentitude rob mclennan does? Like my poetry? Now you can support both in one swoop for $30. One package gone, 6 more to go… The above/ground 30th anniversary fundraiser to keep the poetry coming is on for 2 more weeks. There are many bundles, Hugh Thomas, Chicago poets, Toronto […]

I guess since Facebook isn’t for everyone’s taste and it isn’t on my server, I’ll share a few photos from the Ottawa small press fair here as well. I didn’t go around systematically photographing each person and booth this time, to the relief of at least a couple exhibitors. Michael e. Casteels was there, and […]

The 4th annual author’s day went off pretty nicely. I sold several chapbooks, an autoharp and chatted with a couple people about the Guatemala Stove Project. We all checked out each other’s wares. I didn’t get a photo of everyone through. Who was there? Ruth Tabacnik with Beads of Awareness which raises money for artist […]

Head’s up, I also put writing at substack where you can subscribe. And different stuff at Patreon where you can also subscribe. Patreon tends to be shorter, poem drafts and quick, but not twitter-quick thought and Substack is more in depth. In the latest of the latter I look at what I’ve been reading and […]

Mike Way was an enthusiastic people’s poet at open mics. He was emphatic and politically engaged, a seeker and yet full of fun. We started corresponding 6 years ago or so. (He nicknamed me Pearlster. ) He worked contracts for the CRA and as a “writer/editor” for the Canada School of Public Service, a journalistic […]