The MacOdrum Library Archives and Research Collections
Celebrating Poetry Month with the Carleton University Library Modern Poetry Collection
Join Master of Ceremonies Rob Winger for the inaugural Poetry Night featuring the Modern Poetry Collection, part of the Archives and Research Collections at the Carleton University Library. Listen to poetry readings by Ottawa's David O'Meara as well as view a selection of material from the collection while mingling with other poetry enthusiasts from the university and the greater Ottawa community.
The Modern Poetry Collection contains material from Canada's small press movement (1960s and 1970s) including rare broadsides; first and rare editions of modern and contemporary Canadian and North American poets; and print editions of Canada's "little magazines" like Arc, Poetry Magazine, Tish, Preview, Contact and First Statement--there is something for everyone!
Date: April 1st 2009
Place: Library Staff Lounge (Room 153), Carleton University Library, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Time: 7:00pm, Doors open at 6:30pm
Cash bar and refreshments provided.
For more information please contact Lloyd Keane, Archives and Research Assistant: lloyd_keane@carleton.ca or call 613-520-2600 x2739
[text copied from a poster in the Carleton English Dept.]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Haiku Events
The Haiku North America will be held at the National Library in Ottawa from August 5-9. Early bird registration for the conference ends May 31.
The Haiku Canada Conference, which had tentatively booked for Ottawa this year, will be in Vancouver May 15-17 to spread the wealth of access. The Haiku Canada speakers include:
Winona Baker
Janick Belleau
Marco Fraticelli
Joanne Morcom
Michael Dylan Welch
and Alice Frampton leading the kukai
Early registration closes March 30th.
The Haiku Canada Conference, which had tentatively booked for Ottawa this year, will be in Vancouver May 15-17 to spread the wealth of access. The Haiku Canada speakers include:
Winona Baker
Janick Belleau
Marco Fraticelli
Joanne Morcom
Michael Dylan Welch
and Alice Frampton leading the kukai
Early registration closes March 30th.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts perform THE OBVIOUS FLAP in The A B Series
The A B Series presents
THE OBVIOUS FLAP
performed by electronic sound poetry duo
Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts
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Doors open 7:30pm, show 8pm
Friday, February 20th, 2009 The Mercury Lounge 56 ByWard Market Square Ottawa, Ont. Admission $7 at the door
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Gary Barwin (Hamilton) and Gregory Betts (St. Catharines) perform THE OBVIOUS FLAP, a performance text with dialogue, mixed-media and sound poetry. As part of the evening's program, Betts and Barwin launch Chora Sea, a chapbook published by Toronto's Emergency Response Unit. Publishers, Leigh Nash and Andrew Faulkner, will be in attendance.
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BIOS:
Poet, writer, composer, and performer, GARY BARWIN lives in Hamilton, Ontario. His work has been performed and published internationally. His books include frogments from the frag pool (poetry; with derek beaulieu), Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth (fiction), Raising Eyebrows (poetry) and Outside the Hat (poetry). A new book of poetry, is forthcoming from Coach House. His PhD thesis was a composition combining live computer processing, spoken text, and electronics. He can be found at garybarwin dot com and serifofnottingham dot blogspot dot com.
GREGORY BETTS is the author of If Language (2005), Haikube (2006), and The Others Raisd in Me (forthcoming, Fall 2009). He is the Co-Editor of PRECIPICe literary magazine and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series in St. Catharines. His poetry, essays, and manifestos have appeared in books, journals, and anthologies across Canada and in six countries besides. He currently lives in St. Catharines where he teaches Canadian and Avant-Garde Literature at Brock University.
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Raffle with book prizes from publishers BookThug, Brick, University of Ottawa Press and ECW + gift certificates from local restaurants to be awarded.
Chora Sea and other literature will be available from the book table.
The A B Series thanks The Mercury Lounge, The City of Ottawa, our volunteers and raffle sponsors for their support.
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For more information: Max Middle Artistic Director The A B Series (613) 237-4309
Monday, January 19, 2009
farewell to Steve Sauvé
On Saturday January 17, 2009, Steve Sauvé left this world, and underlined his indelible mark on the spoken word poetry family.
Steve was a poet and organizer integral to Ottawa's local spoken word scene, and to Ottawa's presence in the Canadian spoken word community. Most of us were struck first by his sense of humour, and next by his ethic of being truly himself, disarmed and disarming.
We knew Steve as a survivor. In recent years, he faced medical setbacks that would have crushed most of us. Instead of despairing, he treated them with humour -- though not lightly.
It was as if his response to peril was to lay bare his core self, rather than to be guarded. He confronted terrifying situations with an emotional presence that most of us don't have the guts to open up in our safest places, let alone in performance.
The most touching instance of this in my own memory was when he read his poem "Heart," about his own brushes with death, at the 2005 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Vancouver. He was part of the Ottawa slam team at that festival; we all spent some lovely time together exploring and bonding. When he took the stage, no-one in the hall that night could have been prepared -- even those of us familiar with the piece's content -- for the intensity of that particular performance. He wrought, from his own grave and painful experiences, something of beauty, and delivered it in a way that touched us all unforgettably.
Though relentlessly modest off-stage, Steve was never one to undervalue his loving relationships, and never afraid to expose them to the trial of the limelight. He let us all see how much he was loved and loved in return, and he wanted us to remember our part in that, and to treat it with due respect and joy.
I'm not trying to make him out to be a saint. I knew Steve only as well as my few years on the Ottawa spoken word scene allowed, but he always -- always -- shone positivity and courage on those of us around him. He remains with us in the nuanced and unexpected ways he continues to influence our work, our points of view, and our sense of how much we mean to each other. This part of Steve cannot be taken from us, and we are grateful.
Through Ottawa, and across Canada, the impact of his passing is still unfolding. Most of us just find it pretty hard to believe. Please watch, in due time, for various tribute projects that are currently in discussion; as we celebrate the facets of Steve's life that have made us who we are -- as artists, and as friends. If you have a part to play in that, please feel free to contact me at ktm7@mac.com.
Long live bwana geek.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Steve Sauvé (Oct 12, 1975 - Jan 17, 2009)
very sad news this week. Steve Sauvé, spoken word poet, passed away today.
Steve was a loving and beautiful person, not to mention very talented. He was a member of Capital Slam, 2006 Ottawa CBC Poetry Face-Off Finalist; Member of the 2005 Capital Slam TeamMember of Ottawa 2004 Wordlympics Team; to name just a few of his accomplishments.
He will be missed greatly.
Here's his myspace page
Steve was a loving and beautiful person, not to mention very talented. He was a member of Capital Slam, 2006 Ottawa CBC Poetry Face-Off Finalist; Member of the 2005 Capital Slam TeamMember of Ottawa 2004 Wordlympics Team; to name just a few of his accomplishments.
He will be missed greatly.
Here's his myspace page
Sunday, December 21, 2008
MESSAGIO GALORE in The A B Series
The A B Series presents jwcurry’s
Main Floor
Program for MESSAGIO GALORE take VI provided at the door with admission.
General seating
Door prizes / raffle tickets
Cash bar / Appetizers
MESSAGIO GALORE is a celebratory investigation into what constitutes sound poetry, surveying its com- & ex-position through the writing & reading (& listening & rewriting & reading) of Canadian and international works. MESSAGIO GALORE take VI will be read through the lingual acrobatics of jwcurry, John Lavery, Roland Prevost, Carmel Purkis, Sandra Ridley and Grant Wilkins. It takes as its outer formal structure a 4-voice arrangement of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing and incorporates material by Hugo Ball, Four Horsemen, Claude Gauvreau, d.a.levy, Sam Loyd, Mike Patton and Frank Zappa.
Following the performance, a raffle will be held to celebrate the launch of The A B Series web site with the following prizes: a combination book/gift certificate prize from Nicholas Hoare, a prize pack from Coach House Books, a gift certificate from The Great Canadian Theatre Company, double passes to The Bytowne Cinema, The Dig Your Roots CD collection from National Campus Radio Association, a double pass to any production in The National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage 2009 season, gift certificates for local restaurants and more to be announced.
The A B Series thanks The City of Ottawa, our volunteers and raffle sponsors for their support. Many thanks to Ben Walker who has generously provided photos of Messagio Galore take V, one of which appears above and others can be found on The A B Series web site.
More info on MESSAGIO GALORE take VI:
or from:
Max Middle
Artistic Director
The A B Series
director at abseries dot org
tel: 613 859 8423
Thursday, December 11, 2008
A B SERIES WEB SITE LAUNCH
Dear friends,
It is with great pleasure that The A B Series announces the launch of its official web site at ABSERIES.ORG. Visit the site to see what's happening in Ottawa's reading series for performance, sound and experimental poetry.
Launched in November 2007, The A B Series has quickly become one of the most dynamic reading series in Ottawa. Performers from Ottawa-Gatineau, across Canada as well as The Netherlands and The USA have graced The A B Series stage.
The A B Series was initiated in late 2007 by current Artistic Director, Max Middle. The first event in The A B Series' inaugural season took place on November 1st, 2007 in Ottawa's City Hall Art Gallery with readings by three book touring Calgarians: William Neil Scott, Natalie Zina Walschots and ryan fitzpatrick. The A B Series saw the completion of a very successful inaugural season (Autumn 2007 – Spring 2008) on June 12th, 2008 with a reading by Christopher Dewdney. The second season (Autumn 2008 – Spring 2009) was launched in October and proceeds apace with major productions to be staged early in 2009.
In its brief history, The A B Series has drawn consistently large and enthusiastic audiences to its events. Legendary Dutch sound poet Jaap Blonk performed in The A B Series on June 6th, 2008. Attendance at this event was one hundred and thirty: the best attended sound poetry production in Ottawa's history.
On January 24th, 2009, we are very keenly anticipating hosting jwcurry's next execution of Messagio Galore. It promises to be yet another astonishing act combining curry's acute editorial acumen with his and assistants' extreme technical skill. This performance will indubitably mark another historic development in the trajectory that curry has charted for Messagio Galore. See abseries.org for details on the program and who curry's assistants will be. At fifteen dollars suggested donation, we humbly contend that it will be one of the best values in the history of the performing arts. We're expecting a full house so come early, have a drink, a snack and stay after the ninety-minute performance for door prizes and a celebration of the launch of The A B Series web site.
On February 6th, 2009, The A B Series in association with Kevin Matthews presents four acclaimed Australian poets/spoken word artists on The National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage. They are Alicia Sometimes, Emilie Zoey Baker, Justin Ashworth and Sean M Whelan, each of whom hails from UNESCO's recently announced City of Literature, Melbourne. On 4 February 2009, they land in Vancouver to start their debut North American tour. The A B Series hosts their second North American performance. After which, they leave for Montréal's 2009 Festival Voix d'Ameriques and several engagements there; later in February, they perform in New York's Bowery Club and at The Green Mill Bar in Chicago.
On February 20th at The Mercury Lounge, The A B Series presents a collaborative performance by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts. They will be reading from The Obvious Flap, a performance text in progress that includes dialogue, mixed-media and sound poetry.
A very special thank-you goes to Brian Pirie for designing and realizing The A B Series web site. While you're on The A B Series web site, make sure you view the photos Ben Walker has generously provided of Messagio Galore take V, which took place in April 2008. Many thanks to the following for providing photographs: Ben Walker, Pearl Pirie, Charles Earl and Natalie Zina Walschots.
The A B Series is currently preparing for these and several other momentous productions to take place in 2009. We're very much looking forward to seeing you in the New Year; in the meantime, come visit us online.
Best wishes,
Max Middle
Artistic Director
The A B Series
Monday, December 08, 2008
rob’s poetry recommendations;
Since I never got a chance to answer Amanda Earl’s question about poetry recommendations, I thought I should do it here. Two of the best poetry books over the past year that I would more than recommend would be Vancouver writer and filmmaker Colin Browne’s The Shovel (Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 2008) [see my review of it here], as well as Toronto writer Margaret Christakos’ What stirs (Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2008) [a review is forthcoming on The Danforth Review]. Why were neither of these on the GG poetry shortlist? Speaking more generally, I would recommend anything by American poet Sarah Manguso; how did she get so damned good?
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Poetry Recommendations for Christmas
If you're thinking about giving the gift of poetry to your family or friends over the holidays, you might be interested to hear a few recommendations by some of Ottawa's local poets. Like any other gift, poetry is a matter of personal taste, tis true, but if they're your friends, i wouldn't be surprised if they are interested in poetry, so here are a few possibilities; all these books can be purchased through your local independent bookstores, such as Books on Beechwood, Collected Works, Mother Tongue, Perfect Books, and Nicholas Hoare or directly through the publishers.
Mike Blouin
Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems, Rhonda Douglas, Signature 2008
The Luskville Reductions, Monty Reid, Brick, 2008
Amanda Earl
Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets (Chaudiere Books, 2007)
includes poetry by Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes; this is a great overview to what's going on in contemporary poetry in the National Capital.
Marcus McCann
Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 ed. by Stephanie Bolster (series ed Molly Peacock), (Tightrope Books, 2008)
This is the first book in a new series collecting the best poetry that appeared in Canadian journals in the previous twelve months. It's controversial & compelling - the intro is worth the price of the volume ($18.95) on its own. Bonus: the anthology includes work by current or former Ottawans like Shane Rhodes, Craig Poile and John Barton.
Susan McMaster
Ronnie R. Brown's "Night Echoes" (Black Moss, 2006) is a rich romp through a wise woman's dark, moving, and hilarious dreams, Nadine McInnis's "Two Hemispheres" (Brick Books, 2007) mixes science and madness in a personal and at the same time historical narrative that grips from the first page, and Colin Morton's "the Local Cluster"(Pecan Grove Press, 2008) -- full of sounds and images drawn from the streets of our town over several decaudes -- will rouse responses from any longtime Ottawan.
Christine McNair
Karen Houle. During. Gaspereau Press: 2008. (not local but good)
Roland Prevost
Guess I'd feel ok recommending Robert Kroetsch's "Completed Field Notes" (University of Alberta Press, 2001).
Certainly experimental enough, but also accessible enough, fun enough & wide ranging. I know I'd have been very happy to get it as a gift too. (Um, in fact I did get it as a gift, & I was glad to get it.) I know it's not exactly what people would expect, but it's an excellent read & also Canadian too.
Rob Winger
Troy Jollimore's Tom Thompson in Purgatory (Margie / IntuiT House, 2006) is a nice recent one. Failing that, tell everyone to buy the new edition of George Bowering’s Kerrisdale elegies, (Talon Books, 2008) [also pooka press in Vancouver published a beautiful limited edition run, but perhaps that's out of print?]
Mike Blouin
Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems, Rhonda Douglas, Signature 2008
The Luskville Reductions, Monty Reid, Brick, 2008
Amanda Earl
Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets (Chaudiere Books, 2007)
includes poetry by Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes; this is a great overview to what's going on in contemporary poetry in the National Capital.
Marcus McCann
Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 ed. by Stephanie Bolster (series ed Molly Peacock), (Tightrope Books, 2008)
This is the first book in a new series collecting the best poetry that appeared in Canadian journals in the previous twelve months. It's controversial & compelling - the intro is worth the price of the volume ($18.95) on its own. Bonus: the anthology includes work by current or former Ottawans like Shane Rhodes, Craig Poile and John Barton.
Susan McMaster
Ronnie R. Brown's "Night Echoes" (Black Moss, 2006) is a rich romp through a wise woman's dark, moving, and hilarious dreams, Nadine McInnis's "Two Hemispheres" (Brick Books, 2007) mixes science and madness in a personal and at the same time historical narrative that grips from the first page, and Colin Morton's "the Local Cluster"(Pecan Grove Press, 2008) -- full of sounds and images drawn from the streets of our town over several decaudes -- will rouse responses from any longtime Ottawan.
Christine McNair
Karen Houle. During. Gaspereau Press: 2008. (not local but good)
Roland Prevost
Guess I'd feel ok recommending Robert Kroetsch's "Completed Field Notes" (University of Alberta Press, 2001).
Certainly experimental enough, but also accessible enough, fun enough & wide ranging. I know I'd have been very happy to get it as a gift too. (Um, in fact I did get it as a gift, & I was glad to get it.) I know it's not exactly what people would expect, but it's an excellent read & also Canadian too.
Rob Winger
Troy Jollimore's Tom Thompson in Purgatory (Margie / IntuiT House, 2006) is a nice recent one. Failing that, tell everyone to buy the new edition of George Bowering’s Kerrisdale elegies, (Talon Books, 2008) [also pooka press in Vancouver published a beautiful limited edition run, but perhaps that's out of print?]
Monday, November 17, 2008
City of Ottawa Arts Cuts
Many local poets, reading series, and publications will be seriously messed up by these cuts as will the city itself, which will lose its artists and its soul.
Imagine a city without poetry, fiction, music, art, theatre, dance. Imagine a ghost town.
Here's what you can do:
Attend the City of Ottawa Arts Funding Cut Press Conference on November 18:
10:00am - 11:00am; Ottawa City Hall Andrew Haydon Hall (Council Chambers), 110 Laurier st.
Attend the meeting on November 19th, 7:00 pm, Club SAW (67 Nicholas Street)
CARFAC will host a meeting that is open to Ottawa artists of all disciplines and those who support them. We will discuss the impact those cuts will have for individual artists and what can be done to stop them.
Contact your Councillor
Attend the Draft Budget Public Consultations
Book your time to speak to the Committee
Come to the Council Chambers on December 1st at 10 am as the first delegations present to City Council List of cuts
More information and how you can help: http://arts-ottawa.on.ca/.
Imagine a city without poetry, fiction, music, art, theatre, dance. Imagine a ghost town.
Here's what you can do:
Attend the City of Ottawa Arts Funding Cut Press Conference on November 18:
10:00am - 11:00am; Ottawa City Hall Andrew Haydon Hall (Council Chambers), 110 Laurier st.
Attend the meeting on November 19th, 7:00 pm, Club SAW (67 Nicholas Street)
CARFAC will host a meeting that is open to Ottawa artists of all disciplines and those who support them. We will discuss the impact those cuts will have for individual artists and what can be done to stop them.
Contact your Councillor
Attend the Draft Budget Public Consultations
Book your time to speak to the Committee
Come to the Council Chambers on December 1st at 10 am as the first delegations present to City Council List of cuts
More information and how you can help: http://arts-ottawa.on.ca/.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Grant Writing Workshop
The first of the Dusty Owl monthly workshops will be Saturday November 8th. Tickets are available for the last day at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave in the Glebe. This one will be on Grant Writing and Publishing. Some tickets might be still available at door of Heartwood House, 153 Chapel Street. Reps from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and St John Publicity and Marketing will speak and do a Q&A.
Summary Notes from it here.
Summary Notes from it here.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Poetry Cabaret, Writers Fest
Zachariah Wells did a festival overview at his blog. I mentioned some things from the Writers Fest's writers voice at Humanyms.
In addition to that there are a few other tidbits to mention from the poetry cabaret with Monty Reid, Dannabang Kuwabong, Meredith Quartermain, moderated by Rhonda Douglas...
On the question of writing as catharsis and healing, Monty Reid said, yes and no. It can be, in the process of writing, but ironically enough to publish and perform the poems means reliving. He also said of the writing process that poetry projects fail with more regularity than individual poems and he thinks that has to do with intentionality. For a project you have an intention pushing poems rather than letting the unconscious drive. The rest of the panel nodded agreement.
Dannabang Kuwabong said the why of a poem is a dangerous question for any poet. It's an attempt to answer. He is interested in the how not why of poetry. So far as writing cathartically it is not an act of erasing, forgetting but acknowledging and overcoming, to laugh off the bad things and add joy to pain, an attitude also espoused by Junot Díaz in his talk.
For Kuwabong poetry descends from oral. The oral informs the page and poetry is alive when spoken. God is a poet. He spoke a word and created life. Some of his poetry comes out of the dirge traditions of his culture. He found it interesting that as he did genealogical research, he found himself in Jamaica and recognized things from Ghana.
On the subject of inspiration Reid said that poetry is promiscuous. It comes from almost anywhere. It comes from the interplay of what's outward and inwards. There is no temple of muses that sends inspiration to a narrow selection of the chosen. It's everywhere available to any mind that will have it.
Meredith Quartmain (see Alterran Poetry Assemblage interview) meditates on Matter. She described the process of writing as a genesis. Expository writing is recording what's past and dead. A new experience has to happen on the page in the writing and in the reading to spark.
Her reading had lots of provoking turns of phrase: the gurge of word regurgitates...it laughs typhoons and names are the instruments of thought...not vehicles of but wings for flight. The idea of biology and categories mixed with the thesaurus and how the biologist who created Roget's Thesaurus was grouping ideas into families of thought.
[Cross-posted.]
In addition to that there are a few other tidbits to mention from the poetry cabaret with Monty Reid, Dannabang Kuwabong, Meredith Quartermain, moderated by Rhonda Douglas...
On the question of writing as catharsis and healing, Monty Reid said, yes and no. It can be, in the process of writing, but ironically enough to publish and perform the poems means reliving. He also said of the writing process that poetry projects fail with more regularity than individual poems and he thinks that has to do with intentionality. For a project you have an intention pushing poems rather than letting the unconscious drive. The rest of the panel nodded agreement.
Dannabang Kuwabong said the why of a poem is a dangerous question for any poet. It's an attempt to answer. He is interested in the how not why of poetry. So far as writing cathartically it is not an act of erasing, forgetting but acknowledging and overcoming, to laugh off the bad things and add joy to pain, an attitude also espoused by Junot Díaz in his talk.
For Kuwabong poetry descends from oral. The oral informs the page and poetry is alive when spoken. God is a poet. He spoke a word and created life. Some of his poetry comes out of the dirge traditions of his culture. He found it interesting that as he did genealogical research, he found himself in Jamaica and recognized things from Ghana.
On the subject of inspiration Reid said that poetry is promiscuous. It comes from almost anywhere. It comes from the interplay of what's outward and inwards. There is no temple of muses that sends inspiration to a narrow selection of the chosen. It's everywhere available to any mind that will have it.
Meredith Quartmain (see Alterran Poetry Assemblage interview) meditates on Matter. She described the process of writing as a genesis. Expository writing is recording what's past and dead. A new experience has to happen on the page in the writing and in the reading to spark.
Her reading had lots of provoking turns of phrase: the gurge of word regurgitates...it laughs typhoons and names are the instruments of thought...not vehicles of but wings for flight. The idea of biology and categories mixed with the thesaurus and how the biologist who created Roget's Thesaurus was grouping ideas into families of thought.
[Cross-posted.]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
the 2008 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award
for poems published on bywords.ca between September, 2007 and August, 2008.
Judge for the 2008 Award was George Bowering who said this about the winning poem:
"It is witty and thoughtful, mysterious and competent. It does not sacrifice
prosody and notation to affect. It shows confidence and practised skill
on the part of its author."
Winner: Rob Friday, Manatee, August 2008
Honourable Mention: Joe Hickey, A Billion Billion, February, 2008
Honourable Mention: Ben Ladouceur, new house, November, 2007
Lupercalia, the chapbook of last year's winner, Sean Moreland, is available right now by contacting editor@bywords.ca and soon through the Bywords.ca online store.
Judge for the 2008 Award was George Bowering who said this about the winning poem:
"It is witty and thoughtful, mysterious and competent. It does not sacrifice
prosody and notation to affect. It shows confidence and practised skill
on the part of its author."
Winner: Rob Friday, Manatee, August 2008
Honourable Mention: Joe Hickey, A Billion Billion, February, 2008
Honourable Mention: Ben Ladouceur, new house, November, 2007
Lupercalia, the chapbook of last year's winner, Sean Moreland, is available right now by contacting editor@bywords.ca and soon through the Bywords.ca online store.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Arc's Lampman Scott-Award for Poetry
from the Arc site: "Established in 1986, the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry was inspired by Archibald Lampman, Canada’s finest 19th century poet." and ...
"Duncan Campbell Scott was born in Ottawa in 1862 and died here in 1947. He had a 53-year career in the civil service and was a tireless contributor to the cultural life of the national capital. With Ottawa’s Archibald Lampman and Fredericton’s Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman, Scott was a leader of the influential group of “Confederation Poets” who comprised the first full flowering of Canadian literature, especially poetry, in the late nineteenth century."
the award was given at the Ottawa International Writers Festival opening night last night along with the City of Ottawa Book Awards.
and the winner is...
Shane Rhodes for The Bindery (NeWest Press, 2007).
Citing Duncan Campell Scott's role as the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs in charge of some of the worst policies regarding Aboriginals, Shane said that he is donating half of the money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health. The prize is $1,500. As I said last night, Shane has beauty, brains and heart.
the long list of folks whose poetry was considered for the award:
Michael Blouin for I’m not going to lie to you
Stephen Brockwell for The Real Made Up
Anne Le Dressay for Old Winter
Nicholas Lea for Everything is Movies
Luis Lama for Alien Land
Nadine McInnis for Two Hemispheres
rob mclennan for The Ottawa City Project
Colin Morton for The Cabbage of Paradise
Shane Rhodes for The Bindery
Ian Roy for Red Bird
Asoka Weerasinghe for Mayan Love Songs
The Short List
Michael Blouin for I’m not going to lie to you
Nadine McInnis for Two Hemispheres
Shane Rhodes for The Bindery
more info on the award is here.
"Duncan Campbell Scott was born in Ottawa in 1862 and died here in 1947. He had a 53-year career in the civil service and was a tireless contributor to the cultural life of the national capital. With Ottawa’s Archibald Lampman and Fredericton’s Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman, Scott was a leader of the influential group of “Confederation Poets” who comprised the first full flowering of Canadian literature, especially poetry, in the late nineteenth century."
the award was given at the Ottawa International Writers Festival opening night last night along with the City of Ottawa Book Awards.
and the winner is...
Shane Rhodes for The Bindery (NeWest Press, 2007).
Citing Duncan Campell Scott's role as the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs in charge of some of the worst policies regarding Aboriginals, Shane said that he is donating half of the money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health. The prize is $1,500. As I said last night, Shane has beauty, brains and heart.
the long list of folks whose poetry was considered for the award:
Michael Blouin for I’m not going to lie to you
Stephen Brockwell for The Real Made Up
Anne Le Dressay for Old Winter
Nicholas Lea for Everything is Movies
Luis Lama for Alien Land
Nadine McInnis for Two Hemispheres
rob mclennan for The Ottawa City Project
Colin Morton for The Cabbage of Paradise
Shane Rhodes for The Bindery
Ian Roy for Red Bird
Asoka Weerasinghe for Mayan Love Songs
The Short List
Michael Blouin for I’m not going to lie to you
Nadine McInnis for Two Hemispheres
Shane Rhodes for The Bindery
more info on the award is here.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Ottawa poetry's local, Mother Tongue, escapes fire
Readers of OPN probably know that Mother Tongue Books, just south of the Rideau Canal on Bank Street, is one of poetry's homes in Ottawa, one of its living rooms, where local writers and readers frequently meet to talk books and, more than occasionally, to listen to poetry readings.
When my book of poems The Local Cluster was published this fall -- poems mostly about my yard, my neighborhood, and my community, Old Ottawa South -- I felt strongly that the book's Ottawa launch should be at my local. Mother Tongue's proprietors, Laura and Evelyn, were as welcoming as ever, and we sent out notices about a Sunday afternoon launch on October 5.
So I was alarmed, a week before launch Sunday, to see that fire had gutted the Mud Oven, the store next to Mother Tongue, and that firefighters had smashed windows in both stores in putting out the blaze. Thanks to their efforts, the flames didn't spread to Mother Tongue's books, but smoke poured out of the ventilation system, causing a lot of damage to the stock of books and gifts. Once the carpet and ceiling tiles are replaced, and the whole store given a cleaning in an ozone tent, the store will be back with its new stock for seasonal sales.
Of course, with the ventilation shut off, there was no possibility of going ahead with the launch of my book. But I still wanted my book to make its official appearance at Mother Tongue. So we postponed the date, but still intend to celebrate The Local Cluster along with the reopening of the renovated store, sometime in November. Watch for the announcement.
When my book of poems The Local Cluster was published this fall -- poems mostly about my yard, my neighborhood, and my community, Old Ottawa South -- I felt strongly that the book's Ottawa launch should be at my local. Mother Tongue's proprietors, Laura and Evelyn, were as welcoming as ever, and we sent out notices about a Sunday afternoon launch on October 5.
So I was alarmed, a week before launch Sunday, to see that fire had gutted the Mud Oven, the store next to Mother Tongue, and that firefighters had smashed windows in both stores in putting out the blaze. Thanks to their efforts, the flames didn't spread to Mother Tongue's books, but smoke poured out of the ventilation system, causing a lot of damage to the stock of books and gifts. Once the carpet and ceiling tiles are replaced, and the whole store given a cleaning in an ozone tent, the store will be back with its new stock for seasonal sales.
Of course, with the ventilation shut off, there was no possibility of going ahead with the launch of my book. But I still wanted my book to make its official appearance at Mother Tongue. So we postponed the date, but still intend to celebrate The Local Cluster along with the reopening of the renovated store, sometime in November. Watch for the announcement.
Monday, September 01, 2008
what's new in Canadian poetry?
Recent and Forthcoming Poetry Publications by Canadian Publishers
Sunday’s Ottawa Citizen featured its usual fall preview of upcoming books. the article featured fiction, non fiction, biography and memoir, but as usual, not a word was mentioned about upcoming poetry publications. i guess what burns me the most about the Citizen’s lack of coverage of poetry is that many of our citizens write poetry and a few have upcoming books. how is the Citizen accurately reflecting what goes on in Ottawa, if it neglects the publishing efforts of its residents? it makes no sense to me.
furthermore, you’d think a newspaper with an interest in encouraging literacy would be highly supportive of covering Canadian publishers, who are working hard to ensure Canadians have access to a variety of writing, including poetry. the Citizen’s unbalanced coverage of literature in its arts and books pages makes it look like Ottawa residents are interested only in current events and mystery novels. here’s a list of cross-Canada publishers and the poetry that has been recently or is about to be launched this fall.
to the Citizen’s credit, they recently started a books section (again very little poetry coverage, maybe the occasional review) and James Macgowan has a book blog; although it seems to focus on American popular fiction if the last few weeks are any indication (yes i did see a mention of the Tree Reading Series with George Murray as the feature).
those of us with an interest in finding out about current poetry in Canada need to send letters to the editor of our papers complaining about the lack of coverage. we need to blog about poetry, promote poetry and keep agitating. i’m so bored of reading about mystery novels in the Citizen, aren’t you? tell them.
there are likely more poetry collections being published in Canada in the 2008/2009 literary season. perhaps you can send me a comment if you know of additional books...
take a look at the list below and make sure to buy poetry this fall. and go to the bywords.ca calendar of literary events to find out about local launches such as Rhonda Douglas’s upcoming launch on September 17 at the Cube Gallery.
Maritimes
Broken Jaw Press, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Aquella luz, la que estremece / The Light that Makes Us Tremble, poetry by Nela Rio; Hugh Hazelton, translator.
Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia
The Muskwa Assemblage by Don McKay
Refrain for Rental Boat #4 by Tim Bowling
Goose Lane Editions, Frederiction, New Brunswick
I & I by George Elliott Clarke
Imperfect Penance by Mitchell Parry
Québec
Véhicule Press, Signal Poetry Editions
The Stream Exposed With All Its Stones, Collected Poems by D.G. JONES
Penny Dreadful by SHANNON STEWART
The Empire’s Missing Links by WALID BITAR
36 Cornelian Avenue by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN
Snare Books
Ontario
Anansi Press, Toronto, Ontario
Jeremiah, Ohio by Adam Sol
Bookthug, Toronto, Ontario
Body of Text by Michael V. Smith and David Ellingsen
Every Way Oakly by Steve McCaffery
In Stereo by Paul Hegedus
Mal Arme: Letter Drop 3 by Victor Coleman and Paul Collins
Quixote Variations by Ramon Fernandez (Alfred Noyes, trans)
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The SubWay by Philip Quinn
This & That Lenin by Steven Zultanski
Welcome to Earth: Poem for Alien(s) by Amanda Earl
Brick Books, London, Ontario
Cypress by Barbara Klar
Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O'Meara
Breaker by Sue Sinclair
Coach House Books, Toronto, Ontario
Crabwise to the Hounds By Jeramy Dodds
Laundromat Essay By Kyle Buckley
What Stirs By Margaret Christakos
ECW Press, Toronto, Ontario
Reading the Bible Backwards by Robert Priest
wasps in a golden dream hum a strange music by Asher Ghaffar
Pedlar Press, Toronto, Ontario
Watermarks by Joanne Page
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, Hamilton, Ontario
The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden
by Edita Page
feria: a poempark by Oana Avasilichioaei
Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie by Douglas Burnet Smith
I can still draw by Heather Spears
Your Scrivener Press, Sudbury, Ontario
The Hole in the Wall, poems by Peter McEwen
Prairies
Freehand Books, Calgary, Alberta
It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems by Jeanette Lynes
NeWest Press, Edmonton, Alberta
Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain
Signature Editions, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems by Rhonda Douglas
Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba
she walks for days inside a thousand eyes by Sharron Proulx-Turner
Fear Not by Maurice Mierau
British Columbia
Caitlin Press, Halfmoon Bay, BC
lan(d)guage a sequence of poetics By Ken Belford
A Well-Mannered Storm The Glenn Gould Poems By Kate Braid
Nightwood Editions, Gibsons Landing, BC
The Book Collector by Tim Bowling
Letters I Didn't Write by John MacKenzie
Little Hunger by Philip Kevin Paul
Talonbooks, Burnaby, BC
Kerrisdale Elegies by George Bowering
sublingual by bill bissett
Sunday’s Ottawa Citizen featured its usual fall preview of upcoming books. the article featured fiction, non fiction, biography and memoir, but as usual, not a word was mentioned about upcoming poetry publications. i guess what burns me the most about the Citizen’s lack of coverage of poetry is that many of our citizens write poetry and a few have upcoming books. how is the Citizen accurately reflecting what goes on in Ottawa, if it neglects the publishing efforts of its residents? it makes no sense to me.
furthermore, you’d think a newspaper with an interest in encouraging literacy would be highly supportive of covering Canadian publishers, who are working hard to ensure Canadians have access to a variety of writing, including poetry. the Citizen’s unbalanced coverage of literature in its arts and books pages makes it look like Ottawa residents are interested only in current events and mystery novels. here’s a list of cross-Canada publishers and the poetry that has been recently or is about to be launched this fall.
to the Citizen’s credit, they recently started a books section (again very little poetry coverage, maybe the occasional review) and James Macgowan has a book blog; although it seems to focus on American popular fiction if the last few weeks are any indication (yes i did see a mention of the Tree Reading Series with George Murray as the feature).
those of us with an interest in finding out about current poetry in Canada need to send letters to the editor of our papers complaining about the lack of coverage. we need to blog about poetry, promote poetry and keep agitating. i’m so bored of reading about mystery novels in the Citizen, aren’t you? tell them.
there are likely more poetry collections being published in Canada in the 2008/2009 literary season. perhaps you can send me a comment if you know of additional books...
take a look at the list below and make sure to buy poetry this fall. and go to the bywords.ca calendar of literary events to find out about local launches such as Rhonda Douglas’s upcoming launch on September 17 at the Cube Gallery.
Maritimes
Broken Jaw Press, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Aquella luz, la que estremece / The Light that Makes Us Tremble, poetry by Nela Rio; Hugh Hazelton, translator.
Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia
The Muskwa Assemblage by Don McKay
Refrain for Rental Boat #4 by Tim Bowling
Goose Lane Editions, Frederiction, New Brunswick
I & I by George Elliott Clarke
Imperfect Penance by Mitchell Parry
Québec
Véhicule Press, Signal Poetry Editions
The Stream Exposed With All Its Stones, Collected Poems by D.G. JONES
Penny Dreadful by SHANNON STEWART
The Empire’s Missing Links by WALID BITAR
36 Cornelian Avenue by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN
Snare Books
Variations on Hölderlin by Geoffery Hlibchuk
JACK by Mike Spry
Ontario
Anansi Press, Toronto, Ontario
Jeremiah, Ohio by Adam Sol
Bookthug, Toronto, Ontario
Body of Text by Michael V. Smith and David Ellingsen
Every Way Oakly by Steve McCaffery
In Stereo by Paul Hegedus
Mal Arme: Letter Drop 3 by Victor Coleman and Paul Collins
Quixote Variations by Ramon Fernandez (Alfred Noyes, trans)
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
The SubWay by Philip Quinn
This & That Lenin by Steven Zultanski
Welcome to Earth: Poem for Alien(s) by Amanda Earl
Brick Books, London, Ontario
Cypress by Barbara Klar
Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O'Meara
Breaker by Sue Sinclair
Coach House Books, Toronto, Ontario
Crabwise to the Hounds By Jeramy Dodds
Laundromat Essay By Kyle Buckley
What Stirs By Margaret Christakos
ECW Press, Toronto, Ontario
Reading the Bible Backwards by Robert Priest
wasps in a golden dream hum a strange music by Asher Ghaffar
Pedlar Press, Toronto, Ontario
Watermarks by Joanne Page
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, Hamilton, Ontario
The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden
by Edita Page
feria: a poempark by Oana Avasilichioaei
Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie by Douglas Burnet Smith
I can still draw by Heather Spears
Your Scrivener Press, Sudbury, Ontario
The Hole in the Wall, poems by Peter McEwen
Prairies
Freehand Books, Calgary, Alberta
It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems by Jeanette Lynes
NeWest Press, Edmonton, Alberta
Nightmarker by Meredith Quartermain
Signature Editions, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems by Rhonda Douglas
Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba
she walks for days inside a thousand eyes by Sharron Proulx-Turner
Fear Not by Maurice Mierau
British Columbia
Caitlin Press, Halfmoon Bay, BC
lan(d)guage a sequence of poetics By Ken Belford
A Well-Mannered Storm The Glenn Gould Poems By Kate Braid
Nightwood Editions, Gibsons Landing, BC
The Book Collector by Tim Bowling
Letters I Didn't Write by John MacKenzie
Little Hunger by Philip Kevin Paul
Talonbooks, Burnaby, BC
Kerrisdale Elegies by George Bowering
sublingual by bill bissett
Friday, August 22, 2008
NEW: the Naughty Thoughts Book Club
Capital Xtra and After Stonewall present
DANIEL ALLEN COX
launching his second novel, Shuck (Arsenal Pulp Press)
at
The Naughty Thoughts Book Club
where sex and ideas meet
Sun, Sep 28, 3pm.
The Buzz, 374 Bank St.
Daniel Allen Cox is a former Inches cover model, video porn star, and interviewer for the New York Waste. He is the author of the novel Shuck (Arsenal Pulp Press), and lives in Montreal.
***
PRAISE FOR SHUCK:
"Daniel Allen Cox writes truthfully and elegantly about a New York that I knew very well and that I miss very much. Set in the late 1990s, his novel Shuck describes with great clarity and verve the last gasp of a gritty Manhattan just before the war with the Eskimos, a bygone era that existed before wealth and privilege strangled the sweet life out of street life."
-Bruce LaBruce, director of Otto; or, Up with Dead People
"In his novel Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox gives us Jaeven Marshall, the bastard love-child of Dennis Cooper and Jim Carroll. He's a hustler, self-abuser, wannabe diarist, and aspirant to the dubious title of 'Boy New York'. You'll regret getting to know him, but you'll wish he were in your bed."
-Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Program and Hello, I'm Special
DANIEL ALLEN COX
launching his second novel, Shuck (Arsenal Pulp Press)
at
The Naughty Thoughts Book Club
where sex and ideas meet
Sun, Sep 28, 3pm.
The Buzz, 374 Bank St.
Daniel Allen Cox is a former Inches cover model, video porn star, and interviewer for the New York Waste. He is the author of the novel Shuck (Arsenal Pulp Press), and lives in Montreal.
***
PRAISE FOR SHUCK:
"Daniel Allen Cox writes truthfully and elegantly about a New York that I knew very well and that I miss very much. Set in the late 1990s, his novel Shuck describes with great clarity and verve the last gasp of a gritty Manhattan just before the war with the Eskimos, a bygone era that existed before wealth and privilege strangled the sweet life out of street life."
-Bruce LaBruce, director of Otto; or, Up with Dead People
"In his novel Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox gives us Jaeven Marshall, the bastard love-child of Dennis Cooper and Jim Carroll. He's a hustler, self-abuser, wannabe diarist, and aspirant to the dubious title of 'Boy New York'. You'll regret getting to know him, but you'll wish he were in your bed."
-Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Program and Hello, I'm Special
Monday, August 18, 2008
New Poetry Slam Series Starting in Ottawa - Bill Brown's 1-2-3 Slam
Can you throw down with Bill Brown?
Cytopoetics presents the newest poetry series to grace the local spoken word scene – Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam. The inaugural show takes place at Umi Café on Thursday, September 18, hosted by Ritallin and Hyfidelik. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m.; show starts at 8 p.m. Cover is $5.
At Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam, each spoken word artist in the competition (to a maximum of 12) will perform a 1-minute poem in the first round, with the usual grace period and time penalties of a classic slam format. The top 8 performers earn the right to move on to a second round with 2-minute poems. The four best scorers in the second round qualify for a Showdown Round with standard slam-length 3-minute poems. The highest scoring poet in the final round wins Bill Brown – a $100 bank note complete with a picture of the 8th Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden. Each round wipes the slate clean on the scores, so you just never know who’s going to come out on top!
Poets – get writing your 1- and 2-minute poems and then come down to Umi to be part of Ottawa’s newest poetic experience!
Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam takes place at the Umi Café (610 Somerset St. W. at Percy) on the third Thursday of each month. Check http://www.umicafe.org/ for updates and information.
Can you throw down with Bill Brown?
Cytopoetics presents the newest poetry series to grace the local spoken word scene – Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam. The inaugural show takes place at Umi Café on Thursday, September 18, hosted by Ritallin and Hyfidelik. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m.; show starts at 8 p.m. Cover is $5.
At Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam, each spoken word artist in the competition (to a maximum of 12) will perform a 1-minute poem in the first round, with the usual grace period and time penalties of a classic slam format. The top 8 performers earn the right to move on to a second round with 2-minute poems. The four best scorers in the second round qualify for a Showdown Round with standard slam-length 3-minute poems. The highest scoring poet in the final round wins Bill Brown – a $100 bank note complete with a picture of the 8th Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden. Each round wipes the slate clean on the scores, so you just never know who’s going to come out on top!
Poets – get writing your 1- and 2-minute poems and then come down to Umi to be part of Ottawa’s newest poetic experience!
Bill Brown’s 1-2-3 Slam takes place at the Umi Café (610 Somerset St. W. at Percy) on the third Thursday of each month. Check http://www.umicafe.org/ for updates and information.
Can you throw down with Bill Brown?
Monday, July 28, 2008
Call for Submissions to (Cult)ure magazine for Local Poets and Event Organizers
(Cult)ure magazine seeks submissions from local poets to be published in the magazine’s new poetry section. The magazine is also soliciting submissions from local artists and arts organizations seeking coverage for upcoming events for its new current events column, entitled Shine. The new poetry section and the first Shine column are slated for their inaugural publication in the September 2008 edition.
The new Poetry Editor is Greg “Ritallin” Frankson, a local spoken word artist, creative services consultant and co-founder of the Capital Slam poetry series. (Cult)ure co-founder Brendan Blom is excited about the magazine’s new section. “Creating a poetry section in the magazine adds tremendously to (Cult)ure’s mission,” says Blom. “It is a collection of critical voices that speaks to a cult within our society that is fierce, vibrant, activist and irreverent – many of the qualities this magazine seeks to emulate.”
The Shine column, to be written by Frankson, will focus on upcoming artistic events that normally do not receive a lot of mainstream media coverage. “This is a column I used to write for the (now-defunct) City Journal and it was a success there,” explains Frankson. “It’s clear that there’s a need for this kind of coverage – turning the spotlight on artists and events that deserve a little ‘shine’ but can’t grab the attention of big media.”
All poetry submissions for the September 2008 issue (with the theme of Survival) must be received by August 10, 2008. All styles of poetry are acceptable – print and audio poems are welcome. Artists and organizations hosting events in September 2008 wishing to be the subject for the first instalment of Shine in (Cult)ure magazine must submit their press release and/or press kit by August 1, 2008. Please note that only events taking place during the calendar month of September will be considered for coverage.
(Cult)ure magazine is an online arts and politics magazine that speaks to the different intellectual cults within our society. These cults are small communities of individuals who have an in-depth understanding of their given interests; they are overtly passionate, and driven by their enthusiasm to apply or transmit their message to the city and to the world. Hence, “(Cult)” is placed in brackets. Empowering the multiplicity of identities within our community by giving these co-existing voices an opportunity to represent their unique culture is what makes (Cult)ure magazine so rich in content. It can be found at www.culturemagazine.ca.
For more information, contact:
Greg Frankson
Poetry Editor
(Cult)ure Magazine
(613) 252-1777
greg [at] ritallin [dot] com
The new Poetry Editor is Greg “Ritallin” Frankson, a local spoken word artist, creative services consultant and co-founder of the Capital Slam poetry series. (Cult)ure co-founder Brendan Blom is excited about the magazine’s new section. “Creating a poetry section in the magazine adds tremendously to (Cult)ure’s mission,” says Blom. “It is a collection of critical voices that speaks to a cult within our society that is fierce, vibrant, activist and irreverent – many of the qualities this magazine seeks to emulate.”
The Shine column, to be written by Frankson, will focus on upcoming artistic events that normally do not receive a lot of mainstream media coverage. “This is a column I used to write for the (now-defunct) City Journal and it was a success there,” explains Frankson. “It’s clear that there’s a need for this kind of coverage – turning the spotlight on artists and events that deserve a little ‘shine’ but can’t grab the attention of big media.”
All poetry submissions for the September 2008 issue (with the theme of Survival) must be received by August 10, 2008. All styles of poetry are acceptable – print and audio poems are welcome. Artists and organizations hosting events in September 2008 wishing to be the subject for the first instalment of Shine in (Cult)ure magazine must submit their press release and/or press kit by August 1, 2008. Please note that only events taking place during the calendar month of September will be considered for coverage.
(Cult)ure magazine is an online arts and politics magazine that speaks to the different intellectual cults within our society. These cults are small communities of individuals who have an in-depth understanding of their given interests; they are overtly passionate, and driven by their enthusiasm to apply or transmit their message to the city and to the world. Hence, “(Cult)” is placed in brackets. Empowering the multiplicity of identities within our community by giving these co-existing voices an opportunity to represent their unique culture is what makes (Cult)ure magazine so rich in content. It can be found at www.culturemagazine.ca.
For more information, contact:
Greg Frankson
Poetry Editor
(Cult)ure Magazine
(613) 252-1777
greg [at] ritallin [dot] com
Thursday, July 24, 2008
anarchy issue of the Peter F. Yacht Club-deadline aug 30
Graffiti, graphic comics, film script excerpts, song lyrics, erotica, visual art, apocalyptic poetry, prose wanted for the anarchy issue of the Peter F. Yacht Club
black and white images only, texts in word, word perfect, pdf, html, deadline aug 30, 2008. to amanda underscore earl at storm dot ca
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