Very early and in one case, underestimated, Canadian women poets plus a poem on Dorothy Wordsworth, chat about a good Netgalley review, the revelations of the ER, my new book and so much more ;) Enjoy ..read more

Plus I introduce the last week of Season 8, read an excerpt from Ben Lerner’s essay-book The Hatred of Poetry and end with the poem A Minor Crush of Cells by Chase Twichell. Enjoy ..read more

The final launch of Moving to Delilah at Delilah with some poems, audience reaction, and a reboot of an interview with Katherine Autio that I had to re-record due to the heat frying my phone. A beautiful afternoon with music, art, fiction and snacks and drinks and excellent conversation also. Enjoy ..read more

The final installment of my Moving to Delilah book tour featuring a Toronto preamble, then 3 days in Kingston, Hamilton and back for 2 days in Toronto. Reading and gatherings and traveling and eating and conversations galore! Interspersed by a Bruce Kauffman reading of his poem “moon,” my piece from the Wolfe Island Graveyard, Li-Young Lee’s To Hold as one of my home poems we discussed and ending with a too-quiet but beautiful fragment of Robert Priest singing and playing the Home Song. Enjoy all you outlaws of poetry ..read more

Of Edmonton, Calgary, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. I chat all things road trip and performing, starting with a poem I wrote in a hotel. It’s a blast. Enjoy outlaws ..read more

Plus bird songs and a poem from Yeats. Enjoy :) Goodbye BC! I love you ..read more

In which I first walk in the woods, then read a poem by a Palestinian poet on lost homes, I grumble about empty virtue signalling without artistic substance and glory in the performance, friends and reviews. Enjoy ..read more

Including a Gathering, a Conor Kerr poem, some poetry etiquette, a reading at Planet Earth and gratitude. Enjoy ..read more

And elsewhere in the Lower Mainland at poetry readings and gatherings. Talking about the bookbox prior to leaving Edmonton. Reading The Hairbrush by Kayla Czaga. Grrrrring and glorying. Enjoy outlaws ..read more

In which I read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 62 and speak about the vanity of the artist, the need to transcend for performance, and what my experience was like launching Moving to Delilah for the first time at the Olive series at the Rooster Kitchen for the Edmonton Poetry Festival. Enjoy ..read more