ottawa poetry newsletter

Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 7:00pm Ottawa International Writers Festival Library and Archives of Canada , 395 Wellington Street Launch of 20...

On the eve of my departure for Fredericton, NB., I'd like to express my thanks to those in the Ottawa literary circle who have welcomed ...

The Directors and Members of the Beechwood Cemetery Foundation and thePoet's Hill Committee are pleased to invite you to participate in ...

If you can imagine, during the 1980s, poet Michael Dennis (who turns fifty years old in a couple of weeks) was easily the most published poe...

I should be offering a detailed look at the entire book , fresh off the presses by Broken Jaw Press , but I’ve chosen to dally with the lon...

Recently, Ottawa poet Rhonda Douglas won the 2006 Far Horizons Award for Poetry, sponsored by The Malahat Review and judged by George Bower...

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 ...