Join me at City Hall, 7 pm on Monday 10 April, as Barrie is officially a Poetry City as part of National Poetry Month. As the city’s poet laureate, I will be presenting a brand new poem to City Council. Titled ‘we are all treaty people,’ it is the second in a series consequent of pledging to read the […]
Continue reading →a short poem for the residents of Barrie, from their laureate, inspired by a spring walk on World Poetry Day. feel free to share. on the bay warm ice darkens snow drifts into whitecaps
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 →To celebrate National Poetry Month and UNESCO World Poetry Day, each year municipalities across Canada are challenged to bring poetry into politics. One mayor leads this annual challenge by inviting a poet to read at a council meeting in March or April, and challenges mayors and councils across the nation to follow suit and join […]
Continue reading →Poetry website Jacket2 has just published three poems of mine along with a short profile by rob mclennan. The poems are also forthcoming in yasser arafat is dead, my first chapbook in fifteen years, currently being folded & stapled at above/ground press. In turn, they are all part of the collection away home.
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