I’ll be giving a workshop soon… Tues, April 8th, 2014, 7-9pm Canadian Author Association, Ottawa Remixing your poetic material workshop at Canadian Authors Association Remix culture is presented as characteristic of our age but poetry’s toolbox has long been taking pieces from here and there and synthesizing elements to new effect. Partly hands on, partly […]
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Cento and Self-Expression
A cento is a poem form where you also don’t use any of your own words. You have stacks of books that get passed around and perhaps on a 5 minute or 15 minute timer you grab and transcribe on your page. The object is to pull what stands out verbatim and move to the […]
Tree Seed Workshops: Overview
Often when a feature reader comes from out of town to present at the Tree Reading Series they remark something along the lines of: that was a fantastic open mic. Usually you have to suffer through those but I got something out of each reader. Back in 2009 Rod Pederson was the director at Tree […]
Tree Seed Workshops: Sept-Dec 2013
The second and fourth Tuesday of each month just before Tree are free drop in workshops to spark your poetic fire. They are at SAW Gallery in Ottawa Ontario. (Check The Tree site for changes.) The season continue tomorrow, September 24 with HYBRID TEXTS. Let’s explore “hybrid texts” that cross genres, that is poetry/ narrative/ […]