I’m going to try to share a few things again of interest to other writers. It’s my week-anniversary of feeling lousy and another headache is rising, but I’ll post while I can.
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The schedule for VerseFest, spring 2025, running March 25-29th is now up. It’s at venues around the city.
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An informal writing group open to newcomers of fiction, memoir or poetry, Write Night, is Tuesday, March 11, 7 – 8:30 PM at Biblio Wakefield Library as on the second Tuesday of each month from October to May. Linda Vanderlee moderates and does a zoom version monthly as well.
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On March 12th is the Montreal Review of Books issue launch which they are putting to youtube. It’s through Blue Metropolis which starts online April 14.
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This seems as true as at time of writing:
“So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years –
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres –
Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it.
And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion.
And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate – but there is no competition –
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious.
But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying.
The rest is not our business.”
Y.B. Yeats, Four Quartets
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Zinesters, I’m passing this along…the poetry collective RODAISUN, has been distributing their poetry monthly in Montreal since July 2021. The group is three multidisciplinary female artists, Iva Čelebić, Emma Cosgrove and Catherine Machado. They’ll next do 6 issues annually by subscription, thicker, slicker double issues, sent out every two months, for a total of $12. Link to sign up for mailing service: https://www.grapeseedbooks.com/product-page/rodaisun-in-the-mail
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The Haiku Canada Weekend schedule is now posted at the Haiku Canada website along with registration info. It will be Friday, May 16th to Sunday May 18th, at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Québec, Canada.
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I’m probably forgetting something.
Correction, I’m certainly forgetting most things. That is how I remember one thing.