Reading at Versefest

Hello folks, 
Hope your are staying home as much as possible and in your bubble, and have the Covid-app installed. I don't want to lose any of you.
 

VERSeFest reading, including me.

Over 70 poets will appear Nov 6-22.  Big news: I got an invitation to read at VERSeFest! On Friday Nov 6th at 7:30pm EST, Bahar Orang, Sadiqa de Meijer and I are appearing at the VerseFest Prelude. Unlike most of VERSeFest, where you just show up, this event and a couple others are on zoom so need pre-registration to avoid zoomboming. (That sign up arrives sometime tomorrow.) The VF site is looking great this year with links to buy the books, links for sample translated poems so you can read in translation and this year it's all online and all free for viewers, thanks to funders.

You can buy footlights from me ($24 including shipping domestically), or on the VF site from Perfect Books, from your local indie, or from the press.

If you go to my poems page and are so inclined you can download a trifold of my latest haiku since spring 2020.

I still have copies of my best of 25 years of haiku and tanka chapbook, your for $15 including shipping.

Copies are available of David Groulx' chapbook and many in the backlist.

If you missed my book launch and aren't a Facebook person it's now on replay at youtube:  The book trailer is as well. 

Tune in to Finding a Voice with Bruce Kauffman on Nov 13th to hear an interview with me.

It's funding drive time too at CKCU. I'm not there anymore but if you have a few shekels to drop, they could use them.

The Studio Nouveau Workshops are pushed off into next year. I have the files and the set up but limited energies. The last 2 months have been a blur, not just on the poetry front. My mom in 5 weeks went dementia but living her normal life to being bed-ridden with strokes and a brain tumour. Many of you have lived though similar experiences with family and know how that feels.

Thanks for reading.

Until next time, keep reading, keep writing, keep washing everything, and breathing. As the old slogan goes, "if you can't breathe, nothing else matters."

Pearl