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I’m coming out of the deep woods, twice in a week. How’s about that huh? First this Wednesday for a pre-press fair reading (often held on Friday night but a changed up time slot and venue this year.) and then again on Satuday afternoon at the Jack Purcell community centre where I’ll have a table, […]

We took a little road trip to my publisher, Claudia Coutu Radmore to pick up the fresh off the press chapbooks of my latest haiku. I’m delighted for this collection to enter the world and grateful to Catkin Press for making it happen. Let me share with you the unboxing…. The back cover featured poem […]

For those outside of Ottawa, poetry live can be pretty scant. But bookstores deliver. And there’s zoom. But coming soon at le greenroom (The activity spaces that used to be the music venue of the Black Sheep Inn) in Wakefield, 753 Chem. Riverside at 7pm-9pm this coming Wednesday, May 31 is a new poetry series: […]

Three years pass quickly. I’m delighted that a press has seen fit to publish a chapbook of my love haiku. Unlike the last chapbook of haiku, Not Quite Dawn (Éditions des petits nuages, March, 2020) which was more a round-up of my published haiku, Adding Up to This (Catkin Press, 2023) is a theme of romantic poems. […]

Girl Running by Diana Hope Tegenkamp (Thistledown, 2021) reviewed by Pearl Pirie How could I not love a poet who epigraphs Nicole Brossard and Erín Moure? And a poem after Robert Hass. Girl Running by Diana Hope Tegenkamp is divided into 6 sections, “Spectra” of white poems, “Arterial” which are more family poems, “Each breath […]