ottawa poetry newsletter

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton , "Birthday Poem for John Newlove" It'...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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. ...

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...

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