News Release For Immediate Release Phafours Press Secures Worldwide Rights to Jamie Sharpe’s Chapbook “Michael Hofmann” July 23, 2024 – Phafours Press is thrilled to announce that it has acquired the worldwide rights to the chapbook “Michael Hofmann” by acclaimed poet Jamie Sharpe. This acquisition marks a significant milestone for Phafours Press as it continues to ..read more

I aim to review 10% of the number of titles I read per year. I’m a tad behind to get to 18 but chugging along in gratitude for the delicious writing published. Some reviews that have gone up lately include: Rooted by Tricia Snell, Dear Elsa by Marco Fraticelli, Groping in the Daylight by AugustaWynde ..read more

I’ll be launching in person Aug 10th in Ottawa, as part of the above/ground press 31st anniversary reading, alongside Mahaila Smith, Gil McElroy, Chris Banks, Carlos A. Pittella and Shane Rhodes; tickets here] https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/new-from-aboveground-press-rushing-dusk.html Details on the chapbook and ordering ..read more

New post at Patreon and a new different post at Substack. And some poetry at twitter. (I’m going to keep calling it that.) And blueskies, which is starting to feel kinda crickety like MeWe did ..read more

Love Calls Us Here: poems by Chris Anderson (Wildhouse Poetry, 2024) Love Calls Us Here: Poems by Chris Anderson (Wildhouse Poetry, 2024) is an enjoyable book to read and re-read. Like many in the publisher’s lineup there’s a love for the natural world. As poet and editor Michael Cuddihy once remarked on poetry, “How moving ..read more

The Ottawa Small Press Book Fair, spring 2024 is Saturday, June 22, 2024 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road (NOTE NEW LOCATION) near Hintonburg from noon to 5pm. My spring project has been to black out my book of 2010, to turn been shed bore into she or. I made a pdf version ..read more

7pm Thursday May 16 — Biblio Wakefield Library, the next Poetea event with featured reader Susan Jane Atkinson. Bring a poem to share on this month’s theme “Memory”, bonus if you have written one on the same theme ..read more

There should be a name for stages of done. Manuscript at the point of hope and despair: Despe. Manuscript escaping its own dire suckage: Dirkage Manuscript ready for trusted eyes to see: Peepage. Manuscript ready to send out to a publisher: HahaLastDraft The problem with editing is that it is addictive. It supplants the need ..read more

Generative Poetics Techniques: Shaking Up Your Practice The more tools in the box, the better. The more experience, the more automatically we can grab the right tool for most effective manipulation and pleasure of our readers/listening. We each have our pet subjects, syntax, stanza shapes. How to not stand in our own way? Poetry is ..read more

4 days: VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, returns for its fourteenth year. Poets/performers will have copies of their books/chapbooks/cds on hand to sell. Please support them directly! Thursday, March 21, 2024: Avant-Garde Bar, 135 Besserer Street, 7pmAnita Lahey, Monty Reid, Marjorie Silverman, & Laila Malik    hosted by Jennifer Baker / Arc Poetry Magazine,Daniel Groleau Londry, nina ..read more