Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Mathematics and Poetry: Poor Bedfellows?

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In May 2006, I taught a mini-course on creative writing at the University of Ottawa and had the good fortune to have some distinguished loca...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Re:Generations Ottawa Style

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In Re:Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation ( Black Moss Press , 2005), Canadian female poets discuss how or whether they’ve be...
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Laura Farina wins the 2006 Archibald Lampman Award

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Laura Farina wins the 2006 Archibald Lampman Award for her book This Woman Alphabetical , from Pedlar Press. Named after the 19th-century Co...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Writers Fest-Final Poetry Cabaret: Three Men Walk Into A Library

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and blow the audience away. AJ Levin , George Elliot Clarke and Paul Muldoon , not to mention Stephen Brockwell, the host, had the audience ...

Words Work, April 27

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MayWorks festival puts poetry to work The spring-time labour arts festival, MayWorks , will be entertaining and informing Ottawa audiences o...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

Poetry Cabaret 2: Butterflies, Basho's Frogs and Axel Rose

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The second of the Writers Festival's poetry cabarets featured three poets who couldn't be more different from one another. If I were...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

new session of poetry workshops with rob mclennan

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If anyone is interested, I'm putting together a new series of poetry workshops for spring/summer (as soon as the writers festival is ove...

Writers Fest First Night and the beer is better

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It’s the tenth anniversary of the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Steamwhistle is no longer the only beer. Now there’s St. Ambroise, ...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Submit to ImPress

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Attention Ottawa poets (or, poets): ImPress , a small, mostly broadside press (at this point) is seeking new poems for brand spanking new br...
Monday, April 03, 2006

The Poetry Experience: Poetry Month in Ottawa

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In celebration of Poetry month , the Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) will present Thursday evening poetry readings in Ap...
Friday, March 31, 2006

Lampman Poetry Award Reading at Beechwood Cemetery

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The resting place of Canada's finest nineteenth-century poet will be the site of a poetry reading in his honour on Wednesday, May 10. ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

a sad note from Chris Sorrenti

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It is with great sadness that I convey to you that our dear friend, Juan O'Neill, passed away at 9:22 a.m. this morning. There will ther...
Tuesday, March 07, 2006

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P.E.I. Poet Packs a Punch Reviewed by Nicholas Lea shauna mccabe’s first trade collection offers up spiritually heavy, often gritty, someti...
Thursday, March 02, 2006

the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2006 edition

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span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents the ottawa small press book fair spring edition will be held on Saturday, June 17t...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

Jan Allen, Personal Peripherals 1-30, Stanzas, Volume 1, No 42, above/ground press

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Jan Allen ’s poetry juxtaposes technical and psychological jargon with original language and metaphoric abstractions. Much of her imagery is...
Wednesday, February 08, 2006

a brief note on the poetry of Max Middle

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Historically, so much of the poetry that has come out of the City of Ottawa has moved through the mode of the confessional lyric, in a city ...