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The Sad Phoenician – an advent alphabet
Robert Kroetsch entered my life in 1979, teaching the advanced creative writing workshop at the University of Manitoba. I heard him read The Sad Phoenician in 1979 the year it was published by Coach House Press. The reading was in St John’s College, the Chapel I like to think. The very same chapel in which
... read more.Zippers
I pulled the zipper closed on a mosquito net at Jenfest, and immediately heard summer. I was reading more Anne Carson last night and found this gem in her Glass, Irony and God. ‘”Treachery,”‘ (she notices) sounds just like his zipper going down.” – “God Stiff,” Glass, Irony and God, page 46. Zip it Up! This
... read more.Ezra Pound’s summary of the new poetics 1913
“In the spring or early summer of 1912, ‘H.D’, Richard Aldington, and myself decided we were agreed upon the three principles following: (1) Direct treatment of the ‘thing’ whether subjective or objective. (2) To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. (3) As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of
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Interlake Poetry Month Contest
The Interlake Klean-All Laundry Poetry Contest Deadline: May 13; Winner(s) announced May 18 (the last day of the poetry residency) No entry fees Judge: Klean-All Poet-in-Residence Victor Enns Prizes: 25 Tergesen Gift Certificate for a poetry book of your choice, $20 Klean-All Laundry Gift Certificate (washing and drying only) subscrip$tions to Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2),
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Gimli Laundromat Hosts Poet for Poetry Month
APRIL IS POETRY MONTH! Gimli Manitoba Interlake Klean-All Laundry & Dry Kleaning, the Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group, and the Envoi Literary Foundation are pleased to announce that Victor Enns will be the Klean-All Laundry Poet-in-Residence to celebrate poetry month. April is poetry month all over North America, celebrated annually every-which-way in communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Enns,
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Regarding my pain, yours, and others’
Mine My pain is pedestrian. My feet are killing me, though not my shoes like Robyn Sarah’s (Congrats by the way). The current poem is “Jimmy Bang’s No Shoe Blues,” Though there is another earlier poem called “Jimmy Bang’s Foot Sore Blues” but I’ll wait for a few rejections before I put these up on
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GET Poetry!
Sam’s Place Hosts Envoi Poetry Circle #1, Featuring Violinmaker’s Lament and Cutthroats and other poems 7:30 pm, Sam’s Place, Wednesday, October 14 159 Henderson Highway (free parking in the adjacent lot) THE MENNONITE POETRY PROJECT The Envoi Poetry Festival is over but Envoi continues to campaign for poetry year-round. Envoi Poetry Circles are modeled after
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