This was a great reading. The first time I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Carla Harryman after all these years of reading her. And worth the wait. She read from…
I write to make a statement of presence in language. In order for the alive to win out.Writing can be done only in a body to body encounter with language,…
Apologies for the increasingly random posts. For some reason deadlines seem like magnets for other deadlines which seem like magnets for upstart combustions and implosion of various natures, expenses and…
More bp Nichol on the U Penn site: bp Nichol Audio Archive, ed. Lori Emerson This is great news. But someone, please, create a similar site dedicated to Canadian poets…
Catherine Sullivan’s new installation at Metro Pictures is well worth seeing. The Chittendens, a five-channel video, explores gesture by assigning a set of “attitudes”, as the artist describes it, to…
No, it isn’t strange to follow Wordsworth with Stein, but it is strange to have a “Rat Snake” take to its dinner. At a Tokyo zoo a 9 cm dwarf…
Isn’t this the second woman to win the TS Eliot Poetry Prize? Good lord, what’s happening to us. While I can’t claim to be a fan of Carol Anne Duffy,…
Well, there are memoirs and then there are memoirs… This whole Frey mess might actually be contextualized with the Wiesel memoir. I doubt it, but I’m teaching a research writing…
Ah, reverie. This energy I find in the most unexpected places–it need not be for hills and lonely streams, just as lonely as Manhattan’s sewers, some 600 miles of them…
Over at the Danforth Review they are discussing essential fiction and 22 or so writers, Canadian writers I hasten to add, have added their 10 or so “must reads”. I…