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 […]
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Anthos
You may have already seen that Patrick White has died. He launched his last poetry collection two weeks before he died. He was the last Poet Laureate of Ottawa. When I was to see mom last she said she found a paper I left behind. A 1987 Anthos: White organized Anthos, the magazine (“The magazine […]
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 Press Chapbook Award
Claudia announcing the winner of the Tree Press chapbook contest. Judge Matt Tierney felt it was tight enough to also give mention to Lesley Strutt’s Elbow Grease as runner up. The winner was “Winter Music” marked by restraint and tenderness, a tension between inner tranquillity and the outer chaos. That winning chapbook was by MaryLee […]
Using Your Voice
In case you read here not Humanyms as well, I talked there about making your voice about John Koensgen‘s voice workshop as part of the Tree Seed Workshops. He will be giving another workshop April 9 on stage presence. It will also be held at Club SAW, part of the SAW Gallery at 67 Nicholas […]