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’ve been invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair in October to read and talk about my newly released Wellenlängen deines Liedes (the German language translation of Wavelengths of Your Song). Canada is the guest country at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in … Continue reading Invitation: Frankfurt Book Fair
Don Domanski (1950-2020). We mourn the loss of a great poet.
I took the photo of Don at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. Continue reading Don Domanski
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
Wellenlängen deines Liedes is the German translation of Wavelengths of Your Song (MQUP). The book is newly released from 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)
“…so that our thoughts/always lie in a hollow/of music…” The League of Canadian Poets has featured “Music” in their Poetry Pause program. “Musik” will be published in the German translation of Wavelengths of Your Song. Forthcoming from Cologne based parasitenpresse Wellenlängen deines … Continue reading In a hollow of music
…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
“but today the sky is/under no one’s control” “Parameters of Loss” and “Touchstone” are forthcoming in The Fiddlehead. . Continue reading Parameters of Loss
“Compose” has been published in the latest issue of Arc Poetry along with new poems from Madhur Anand, Alyda Faber, D.A. Lockhart and Téa Mutonji among others. You can order a copy here. Continue reading Birdsong tangles the branches
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
“Tongues,” “So Much Remains Invisible,” and “Outstretched Arms” are featured in the current issue of Grain. Other contributors include: Sheri Benning, Michelle Poirier Brown, Grant Buday, Kai Conradi, Krishan Coupland, Molly Cross-Blanchard, James Deahl, Antony Di Nardo, Patrick Friesen, Keegan Hawthorne, … Continue reading So Much Remains Invisible
