Happy Birthday Deb Harris, wherever you are.

Earlier I queried the relationship between time and gender. Here’s one a poet who seems to bend time, or perhaps just use it well. beaulieu uses his time not so much in formulating opinions—though he has those—but in creating and supporting an active literary community that might cohere in Calgary but extends internationally. No Press...

roof-top poets, originally uploaded by johnwmacdonald. Rock on, John and Jon.

Nineteen Short Stories by Samuel Beckett, Sina Queyras, No Press, 2008 Thursday, June 19, 20087:30pm – 8:30pmPages Books1135 Kensington Road NW Calgary, AB Brief author Q&A Q:Why Beckett? A: Story oppresses me. Q: Yes but why Beckett? Can’t imagine this being up for long; it’s absolutely stunning. A favourite of the Beckett on Film series....

Photo by Edward Burtynsky Feel free to email The Honourable Loyola Hearn and let him know what you think about losing sixteen pristine lakes to be used as tailing ponds. This is nothing more than a subsidy that allows companies to save money by polluting and not building proper containers for this toxic waste. A...

CBC discloses plans to use 16 pristine lakes as toxic dump sites. How is that for a lack of imagination?

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More good news for poetry. A new issue of How2 now up.Volume 3, Issue 2Summer 2008 Featuring: ECOPOETICS with poems, essays, papers and postcards from: Dorothy Alexander / LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / Tina Darragh and Marcella Durand / Rachel Blau DuPlessis / Cynthia / Hogue / Janis Butler Holm / Siel Ju / a.rawlings...

When I am snagged into reading the abundant commentary on sites such as Silliman (here the men discuss Sex & The City) and Poetry Foundation etc, I think I can hear women lifting the untidy cuffs of men as they sit formulating and formulating opinion after opinion on opinion after opinion, wiping the floor around...