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Tonight On Our Stage | Reading in December

I will be reading a few poems as part of an exciting variety show in December–Tonight On Our Stage at the NAC Fourth Stage on December 16. Ticket information is available here, and some of the lineup details are below. Thanks so much to the organizers for including a few poets on the bill! I’mContinue reading “Tonight On Our Stage | Reading in December”

Recent [non-book] Acquisitions

Three recent non-book acquisitions (though certainly book-ish, and small-press-related). Irving Layton at Le Hibou Released by Posterity Records (PTR 13001). Illustrated and designed by Christopher Wells, Produced and edited by William Hawkins, with an essay by Roy MacSkimming. Recorded at Ottawa’s legendary Le Hibou coffee house in January 1962 (at least so far as IContinue reading “Recent [non-book] Acquisitions”

Arnott, Yerxa, Fernandes | November 10

I am helping to set up this reading in the Department of English at UofO on November 10. It should be great! Please join The Department of English, The Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies, and Kegedonce Press to celebrate the publication of Halfling Spring: an internet romance with readings by: Joanne Arnott (Gerald LampertContinue reading “Arnott, Yerxa, Fernandes | November 10”

Writing Process Blog Tour

This writing process blog tour went around a few months ago. Most of the writers in my immediate peer group took part at the time, but I resisted because I felt that I wasn’t working on anything worthwhile at that moment. It reappeared again, and rob mclennan asked me if I was interested in respondingContinue reading “Writing Process Blog Tour”

CKCU Funding Drive

CKCU at Carleton University is holding their annual funding drive for the next two weeks. The station is a great supporter of the arts in Ottawa, and has a number of shows that have been especially strong supporters of Ottawa’s literary community (and of some of my projects personally). The collaboratively hosted Literary Landscape andContinue reading “CKCU Funding Drive”

An Accord of Poets #itallhappened

So we did it. It happened. #it. An Accord of Poets. Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Peterborough—four cities in five days, five poets in a Honda Accord (and a sixth meeting us in Peterborough). I don’t know how to wrap up what we did together. More than a year of planning went into it, and now itsContinue reading “An Accord of Poets #itallhappened”

CWILA Membership Drive

CWILA (Canadian Women in the Literary Arts) is holding a membership drive right now. “CWILA is a non-profit organization which advocates for gender equity in Canadian literary culture. We currently have over 400 members consisting of some of Canada’s most prominent writers and academics. As a feminist collective, we depend on our membership to stayContinue reading “CWILA Membership Drive”