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

I’ve got 2 workshops coming in April. One online, one in person in Wakefield. Check them out ..read more

There was a fantastic open mic, even if it took a little coaxing to break the shell of shyness off. Behind, you can see the gift bags of cookies I made up, some gluten free, some gluten-rich each with a poem from Adding Up to This attached. I made 60 or cookies (gingerbread, freezer cookies and ..read more

The chapbook A Couple Sumarians will get a launch in Wakefield Valentine’s day week. Thursday Feb 15th, 7pm at Wakefield Public Library at the Poetea series. More details to come but wanted y’all to be the first to know ..read more

In my annual tradition since 2012, I share my self-audit of what I read and favourite reads. Throughout the year at instagram I have posted all the reads and some of the quotes from books I liked. I aimed to read more fiction proportionally this year, setting aside some obsession with poetry. Intention didn’t translate ..read more

Want to get yourself some magazine subscriptions? Or packages of editing from a wide range of poets? There’s a fundraiser for that. Stephanie Bolster, Stephen Brockwell, Julie Carr, Annick MacAskill, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Sandra Ridley, r fitzpatrick, Madeleine Stratford or Stephen Collis ..read more

Meta-post not on Meta I’m steering away from Twitter and FB to the degree I can. I do like Instagram tho. Even if it is owned by Meta. I don’t like ads parroting back to me a commercial version of what I’ve said. Terribly annoying. I’ve given up on MeWe since it didn’t build steam ..read more

Over at the Onion, article on poet who makes over $150 a year ..read more

Ottawa small press fair is this Saturday, Nov 18th noon to 5pm. Tom Brown Arena, not the usual place. I’ll be there with never-seen chapbooks and maybe-you-missed-them chapbooks. Brownies if I feel particularly ambitious, which seems an outside chance at this point. https://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-ottawa-small-press-book-fair-autumn.html ..read more