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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Peter Gibbon - What I like about Jesslyn Delia Smith
What I like about Jesslyn Delia Smith:
a survey of her poetry & review of “rescue poems” (In/Words, 2011)
Marble is the cross-section of a cloud.
What, then, if the forms we know
are sections of a full body
whose dimensions are timeless
and bodiless, like poems,
whose unseen dimension is the mind?
Louis Dudek, from Poems from Atlantis (Golden Dog Press, 1980)
In his introduction to The Long Poem Anthology (1979), Michael Ondaatje pontificates on a genre coined the “serial poem”—a much-loved form in the 1970s, and most popular among the contributors he anthologized. He addresses some interesting characteristics of his contributors: “In the 70’s some poets talked out loud and some listened. These poets listen to everything” (13). I like the distinction made here because it suggests the work of serial poets is quiet, modest and deeply personal. This is also what I like about the poetry of Jesslyn Delia Smith.
I have no doubt that Jesslyn writes frequently. Her blog (http://jesslyndelia.com/) is updated regularly with new poetry and (more recently) prose. She’s had 4 chapbooks published in the last 2 years, most by In/Words press, one self-published: so it’s the first really warm day (In/Words: 2009), doorhinge (In/Words: 2009), sun, scrambled (self-published: 2010), rescue poems (In/Words: 2011). Their thematic content is constant: love, memory, allegiance. It is the slight shifts in tone between the individual poems that add depth to her body of work and give her poems a remarkable accumulative quality deserving of attention [...]
Read the full article in the February 2011 issue of Bywords here.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
A B SERIES presents SHERI-D WILSON / ÉLIZ ROBERT / KEVIN MATTHEWS
“Queen of Canada’s Performance Poetry Scene”
ÉLIZ ROBERT
& KEVIN MATTHEWS
Perform in The A B Series
+ Poetry in Three Languages!
Come & witness the fiery instant translation from Sheri-D Wilson’s English to French & Spanish performed by Éliz Robert
An A B SERIES Presentation
at The Mercury Lounge in Ottawa’s Byward Market
Happening Saturday, January 22, 2011
Doors open at 7:30pm
Show starts at 8:00pm
SHERI-D WILSON is Artistic Director of the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival & Director of the Spoken Word Program at the Banff Centre.
ÉLIZ ROBERT is a graduate of the 2010 Banff Center Spoken Word Residency & has toured in Europe & The USA. She lives in Montreal.
KEVIN MATTHEWS has performed his poetry in front of audiences around Canada — from hundreds to handfuls, from symphonic concert halls to correctional facilities.
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The A B SERIES is Ottawa’s reading series for experimental, sound & performance poetry. Initiated in the autumn of 2007, The A B Series has quickly become one of Canada’s most distinguished & dynamic venues for performance poetry.
Contact:
Max Middle
Artistic Director
The A B Series
Monday, January 03, 2011
AngelHousePress seeks visual poetry for Nationalpoetrymonth.ca
AngelHousePress seeks visual poems, assemic writing, collages and concrete poems
for the 2011 nationalpoetrymonth.ca.
Please send high resolution JPGs (1200 pixels on the longest side), a short bio
and a photograph to me by February 28, 2011.
(do NOT send me PDFs or word processing documents.)
Please send only one poem. I will consider both previously published and
unpublished work for publication.
Please send work to amanda at angelhousepress dot com and put NPM in the subject line.
Participants from all countries are welcome.
If you want your poem to be titled, please put the title in the jpg.
Happy new year to all!
Amanda Earl
AngelHousePress
www.angelhousepress.com
the angel is in the house
for the 2011 nationalpoetrymonth.ca.
Please send high resolution JPGs (1200 pixels on the longest side), a short bio
and a photograph to me by February 28, 2011.
(do NOT send me PDFs or word processing documents.)
Please send only one poem. I will consider both previously published and
unpublished work for publication.
Please send work to amanda at angelhousepress dot com and put NPM in the subject line.
Participants from all countries are welcome.
If you want your poem to be titled, please put the title in the jpg.
Happy new year to all!
Amanda Earl
AngelHousePress
www.angelhousepress.com
the angel is in the house
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Sheri-D Wilson, Éliz Robert & Kevin Matthews perform in The A B Series
+ Poetry in Three Languages! Come & witness the fiery Insta-Translation performances of Sheri-D Wilson & Éliz Robert
+ Poésie trilingue! Venez voir naître sous vos yeux des performances d'insta-traduction entre Sheri-D Wilson & Éliz Robert
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
ROBERT PRIEST, THE RECIPE, SOBOL & LAVERY
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| ABSERIES.ORG An Evening of Poetry & Music with Robert Priest, The Recipe, John Sobol & John Lavery |
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Bywords Fall Reading, Sunday, November 21, 2010
You are invited to the launch of the fall edition of the Bywords Quarterly Journal to take place at 5pm on Sunday, November 21, 2010 as part of the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Swizzles, 246-B Queen St.
Music by Kevin Grant and poetry readings by Frances Boyle, Reid Cooper, Marilyn Irwin and rob mclennan.
Followed by the Dusty Owl's Open Mic.
Contact info: amanda at bywords dot ca
Cover photo by Jayni Bloch
Bywords thanks the City of Ottawa for funding us again this year.
A reminder that we are always looking for poetry by former and current Ottawa residents, students and workers. Deadlines are the 15th of the month.
Go to http://www.bywords.ca/ and click on guidelines for further information.
The next issue of Bywords.ca comes out November 15.
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
See www.apt9press.ca for further information.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=167389499951641
Monday, November 01, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award
Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award Readingat the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Southminister United Church, 15 Aylmer
Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:30 pm- a free event
contact: amanda@bywords.ca
Launch of "The Glass Jaw" by Marcus McCann, the recipient of the 2009 John Newlove Poetry Award. With readings by this year's honourable mentions and award recipient to be announced at the reading, and music by the Companionship Registry.
"This year’s winner of the John Newlove Poetry Award stood out from a strong field of finalists for its rich execution of focalized perception and its economical rendering of character through the use of terse, gritty idiom." Jason Camlot, 2010 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award Judge
The annual John Newlove Poetry award, launched in the fall of 2004, commemorates the honest, poignant and well-written poetry of John Newlove, an Ottawa resident for almost twenty years and poet who died in 2003.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Transparency Machine with Louis Cabri
A B SERIES PRESENTS
a homecoming edition of
THE TRANSPARENCY MACHINE
with Louis Cabri
The A B Series is delighted to present a homecoming edition of The Transparency Machine with Louis Cabri. During the late 1980's and early 1990's, Cabri organized the Experimental Writing Group in Ottawa with Rob Manery. They produced literary events that included The Transparency Machine reading series, then held at Gallery 101. Together, they published hole magazine and chapbook series.
The Transparency Machine is an event in which a poet is asked to give a reading from his or her work, and create, for that reading, a textual collage (of quotations and images) through which to talk about poetry. Pre-readings for Louis Cabri's October 30, 2010 Transparency Machine event have been posted to The A B Series web site.
Louis Cabri is author of —that can’t (Nomados) and The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books). He teaches modern and contemporary poetry, literary theory, and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Wrinkle Press recently published his leaflet What is Venice? (illustrated by Tim de Vries). His new book, Poetryworld, is being published this fall by Capilano University Editions.
* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010 *
* Doors open 7:00pm *
* Presentation at 7:30pm *
Gallery 101
301 1/2 Bank Street
(top level)
Ottawa, Ontario
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
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