though i made an informal pledge last year to read the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, yesterday i made it official by signing up at The TRC Reading Challenge. i admit the Report not an easy read, & i’m only 10% through. but reconciliation will only come from understanding the truth. our full history […]
Continue reading →Not only has Mayor Jeff Lehman proclaimed April to be Poetry Month in the City of Barrie, but his office has asked me to read a poem before Council on 10 April to celebrate Poetry City. The poem I read two years ago at Council was just accepted for an anthology expected in 2018, along with a […]
Continue reading →Two Poets Laureate celebrate National Poetry Month this Wednesday evening at 7 pm at Barrie Manor, 340 Blake Street (at Johnson). Entitled, The Road Home, Barrie’s own Poet Laureate – me – will join Greater Sudbury’s recently minted Laureate, Kimberly Fahner, for an evening of poetry, open to the public, free admission. So if you missed me at the […]
Continue reading →From the Writers’ Union of Canada: Due to some cancellations, there is still some funding left in the National Public Readings Program for readings that take place before March 31, 2016! If you know a host who would like you to do a reading, direct them to our website at http://www.writersunion.ca/content/national-public-readings. Applications must be received before March 18, […]
Continue reading →Jeff Low at BrokenPencil.com has posted a review of my recent chapbook, yasser arafat is dead on its website. Check it out here: Chapbook Review: yasser arafat is dead.
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