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Dust Blown Side of the Journey (McGill-Queen’s University Press) was a finalist in the international Eyelands Book Awards (Greece) in the published book category. Continue reading Eyelands Book Awards Finalist
Thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement throughout this immensely difficult year. In 2021 let us continue to care for each other including strangers and the planet. Often this year I’ve thought of my former life as a … Continue reading In the year 2020
Bookfest: Wellenlängen deines Liedes will be presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair this evening. Publisher Adrian Kasnitz will host the live event including Frankfurt based poets. Since most of us (including myself) are unable to travel, I’ve created this audio … Continue reading Frankfurt, October: Audio
Each envelope contains the research material and drafts for a single poem in Wavelengths of Your Song. I gathered a broad range of information including a photograph of a gold miner working underground, notes on the dietary habits of migratory … Continue reading Notes for Wavelengths
I was invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair to read and talk about Wellenlängen deines Liedes (the German language translation of Wavelengths of Your Song). Continue reading Invitation: Frankfurt Book Fair
A wonderful moment happened during the translation of Wavelengths of Your Song when Knut Birkholz was working on the poem “Blindness” and looked up “flight note.” He sent me the following screen shot and said, “This is almost a poem.” … Continue reading Flight Notes about translation
Wellenlängen deines Liedes is the German translation of Wavelengths of Your Song (MQUP). For months I’ve worked closely together with the translator Knut Birkholz who gave careful attention to all details of the poetry. He asked many thoughtful questions and came … Continue reading Found in Translation
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Wellenlängen deines Liedes is the German translation of Wavelengths of Your Song (MQUP). The book is published by parasitenpresse. Adrian Kasnitz writes Continue reading Wavelengths of Your Song: In German Translation
“These are understated poems grounded in imagism, snap shots of a life, where the poet speaks quietly to her reader with precision and insight.” Armand Garnet Ruffo, author of Treaty # Continue reading Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete (published)
…the score//augmented by the American/Redstarts and the sound of/my breathing… from “Johnny on the Spot“ honourable mention in the Great Blue Heron Contest in the current Antigonish Review #199 (print edition). Continue reading Honourable Mention
I’m reading the proofs from Arc Poetry Magazine for my forthcoming poem “Compose.” This is always one of my favourite moments as a writer when all the invisible work of being a poet starts to feel and become real. The poem … Continue reading Under a Tree
“Entwined” and “Inner” have been accepted for publication in the anthology Wild Gods: The Ecstatic In Contemporary Poetry and Prose (New Rivers Press, Minnesota). “Though ‘ecstatic’ is often used as a synonym for ‘joy,’ our application of the term embodies the … Continue reading On Joy
In 2019 “it didn’t happen here” won the National Broadsheet Contest from the League of Canadian Poets (judged by D.A. Lockhart), “Johnny on the Spot” received an honourable mention in the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest from The Antigonish Review … Continue reading 2019: Work in Progress
“Lemon Tree” and “The Lining” have been accepted for publication by Stand Magazine (UK). “Stand has been a fixture on the British and world literary scene since 1952, when the first issue appeared in London. It moved to Leeds in 1960, then to … Continue reading The Lining
“Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water.” Forthcoming from Caitlin Press. Contributors include Kate Braid, Gary Barwin, Eleonore Schönmaier, Katherena Vermette, Arlene Pare, John … Continue reading Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds