Category: reading
Legendary nights are called into being. What reading elicits is, on neurological imaging, difficult to distinguish from experience itself. We read the word lilac or chai and the olfactory cortex flares. The phrase I pulled the cloth strip through the wire fence will spur the reader’s motor cortex as if it were the movement. Or, […]
ALICE NOTLEY 1945-2025 …and read, she did. 14 March 2020. The evening before the “lockdown.” All of her other readings for the launch of For The Ride (Penguin, 2020) had been cancelled. Her appearance here sold out (about twenty, twenty-five came that night). Alice took the stage and. It was fire. This ended up being […]
Have you ever fallen in love with a place? Of course you have. A second visit to this visionary gem—my first [when I fell in love], reading with Don Pyle & Stevie Manning—I knew I wanted [had] to return to Niagara Artists Centre when she came out. Little did I know I’d have the grand […]
Fertil3 at The Printed Word Bookshop Dundas ON 25 August 2024
Readable. Clean. Meticulous. Striking. Pretty.* I don’t know exactly just how I lucked into this. By this, I mean a very special kinship shared/shaped by the love of good work. And food, and drink and plenty of laughs between us. I knew from reading Ralph’s work, his meticulous eye, and ear, he knows what belongs […]
To keep going, you need to feel you are making good work—or moving in the direction of making good work, or interesting work, or are interested in the work you are making—and see that as the thing you are aiming to do. Anything good that happens beyond is a bonus…” Cameron Anstee, Some Silences: Notes […]
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“We’ve got a pact,” Ziegler said. “You have permission to read for an hour, with no other interruptions.” “It’s about building community.” – VICKI ZIEGLER, “bookgaga” Ah! that oft-used word, “community.” I’ve heard rumours of a mythical “poetry community,” as though one in and of itself exists. My actual experience, there are highly valued small […]
Launching poetry at the place for poetry. MICHAEL FLATT reads from his new KFB collection I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY supported by poet, R/B MERTZ reading from their upcoming CU T (Threadsuns, 2024) to a welcoming house at The Printed Word Bookshop, Dundas ON last night. Thanks James, and all who came out to […]
squares. Fuck conformity, / the fear of being weird and free “I toss every laurel, prize, bouquet, coin, belly laughs and cries at their feet, the flames of these poet’s hearts & tongues, lick, lash, lacerate, love… saturate my pores. Every page, every poem, every phrase/line to be revisited again, again. Not only on the […]
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