Paula A. Kirman has some nice words about my first poetry collection, White Shirt, on the I Heart Edmonton blog. “How can I best describe MacFayden’s poetic style? Imagine poetry that is at times gritty and personal, that deals with love and lust and sex and broken relationships, that has a tone of a booze-filled night out […]
Author: LaurieMacFayden
Sound Spiritus: An Evening of Words & Music
ArtSpirit Festival 2014 Tuesday, May 27, 7:30 pm Savour the interplay of text and music in performance with a roster of River City’s celebrated poets and musicians Host: Kathy Fisher Featuring former Raving Poets frontmen Mark Kozub and Mike Gravel; Laurie MacFayden; Nancy MacKenzie; Cliff Therou; Suite Tweet – a recorder/classical guitar ensemble with Donna Mae […]
50 words
I’m thrilled to be part of this new motion poem video project by Randall Edwards. 50 words made its debut on March 31, with my poem Begin. 12 poets were asked to pen a 50-word poem on the theme of ‘Beginnings.’ PRECISELY 50 words. No easy task, as it turns out. We laid down the vocal tracks in […]
trocadero
My brother started collecting squirrel skulls at the age of seven. But it is not yet time for madness to enter the story. My mother found a ring at the Canadian National Exhibition Princess Gates. But it is not yet time for turquoise to enter the story. I fell in love on the Paris Metro. […]
canada (palindrome)
it was so different in the ’70s it was plaid bellbottoms and sideburns it was draft dodging and october crisis it was fresh science and a whole nation beating the soviets in hockey we were so much more than prisons and fighter jets we were clean and polite and happily multicultural we sewed maple leafs […]
hallelujah moments
1. the first time i rode a two-wheeler, dad’s steadying hand at the ready but not necessary. hallelujah! 2. the time mom suggested i use a bigger bat because i was older now, and i resisted, but she insisted, so to please her i tried joey’s louisville slugger and swung hard and i hit a […]