Readings Coming This Week

The Re-animating Fall.

Fresh breeze. Sweater weather first week of August. It's been a weird cold wet summer, and I demand it to stay summer until it reforms itself to heat. Alas, fall comes before the pride of knowing summer.  

There are 3 uncommon literary events on the horizon for me in the next 5 weeks. A reading in Ottawa with Poets' Pathway/City of Ottawa, a reading in Toronto at ArtBar and resuming the Tree Reading Series after summer hiatus.  I'm still on the radio. I'm also in a snail-speed move, shifting operations to rural Quebec. Oh, and psst, coming soon from phafours press, a chapbook by Murray Citron.

The travelling radish and other literary events

Aug 10, 6:30pm
CKCU Literary Landscape
My guest this week is R.J. Harlick, author of the Meg Harris Mystery Series of crime fiction. That's on 93.1fm over a rad-i-o or live or on playback at ckcufm.com

Aug 13, 2-4pm
Poetry in the Park, Ottawa
At Rideau Tennis Club, 1 Donald Street. A Poets' Pathway/City of Ottawa Reading. Readings by: Ronnie R Brown, Susan McMaster, Claudia Radmore, Grant Savage, Diane Stevenson Schmolka, H. Masud Taj, and Betty Warrington-Kearsley.

Aug 15, 8pm
ArtBar, Toronto
Readings start shortly after 8 pm and are held at Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street (Spadina/College). Reading with Chuck Carlise, and Darrell Epp with host Rudy Fearon. Cover: $5, Open mic - $20 first prize, see www.artbar.org for details.
 

 

Literary Life

I've been doing more gardening than poeming this year. I have the sense that the next couple books may be radically different in style and tone. What that might look like I'm not sure, and when, loon only knows.

I seem to be doing more organizing, editing other people's work, and teaching in the lull of my own writing as the well refills. Later this month I'm teaching 11- to 14- year-olds at the Carleton Creative Writing Camp for the 3rd consecutive year.

 

Recommended reads...

I've been hitting the non-fiction pretty hard.
Keep Reading

Ottawa Field Naturalists is a wonderful place to be a member and it yields a Trail and Landscape magazine on top of all the learning. The Hidden Lives of Trees is fascinating. There's so much going on in the systems under the ground! For a stand-out in poetry, Acquired Community by Jane Byers (Caitlin Press, 2016) about the queer history of Canada. An easy choice to re-read.

More Upcoming events

Sept 12, 6:45pm
Tree Reading Series, Ottawa
The series comes back with season 37!  Feature readers:  Kateri Lanthier + Monty Reid + Ramon Sepúlveda at 8pm and our regular open university organized by Chris Johnston at 6:45pm downstairs at The Black Squirrel Books & Expresso Bar, 1073 Bank St..

October 15
Lansdowne Park, Japan event
I'll one of the KaDo people at Ottawa Meets the Wold event evangelizing about haiku again. At Lansdowne Park many countries have a day. Pakistan is Aug 16-17, Trinidad and Tobago Aug 20th. Oct 15th will be Japan's turn.