ottawa poetry newsletter

PEAS I like the idea of eating peas after they've been used to kill someone because it just goes without saying it would take a lot of p...

Bywords Warms the Night IV Sunday, January 21, 2007, 2-3 pm Chapters, 47 Rideau Street Free admission Launch of the winter Bywords Quarterly...

During the past few weeks, the Capital Poetry Collective, organizers of Capital Slam, have made some waves on the air at CHUO FM. The artis...

Does anyone know anything about the Octavo exhibition that took place at SAW Gallery somewhere in the mid to latter seventies? It was a grou...

Considering how long she received her M.A. in English Literature (Creative Writing) from Concordia University (alongside writers David McGim...

I was at jwcurry's last night. He much informed me about his readings of all of bpNichol's 'The Martyrology' (each book) tha...

It was a most excellent Ottawa International Writers Festival. I'd go on about it but there's plenty below. Of note however was the ...

Bywords Autumn Ex-Tra-Va-Gan-Za Chapters, 47 Rideau Street Sunday, October 15, 2006, 2pm The launch of the fall Bywords Quarterly Journal wi...

Last night’s festival activity saw us touring the venues. We started with Eddie Goldenberg ’s discussion of his book, The Way It Works, in t...

I didn’t take notes tonight as I had to concentrate on hosting the event, but I just wanted to write a short note to say the event was reall...

Last night’s Writers Festival program started with Stuart Ross , touque on, emptying a green garbage bag full of stuffed monkeys onto the st...

CBC Radio’s Alan Neal hosted the poetry cabaret in Rm 156 of the National Library, making this gathering more intimate than usual. The three...

The Ottawa International Writers Festival kicked off its tenth anniversary celebration by celebrating another anniversary, Exile’ s 30th, th...

Ottawa publisher BuschekBooks invites you to celebrate the publication of Occupational Sickness poetry by Nichita Stanescu translated by Oan...

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...