this is just to say i got your note. really, willy. the last plums. you knew i was saving them and still you ate them. all of them. so delicious and so cold. fine. i hope they froze your tongue. you have always been selfish. ~~~ this is just to answer your note: i’m sorry you […]
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Another Golden opportunity
My second book, Kissing Keeps Us Afloat, was honoured with a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in the poetry category in July. I was not able to attend the awards ceremony in July in New Orleans, so this afternoon Frontenac House publishers Rose and David Scollard have invited me to crash their Quartet 2015 preview party (2 p.m., Harcourt […]
‘Tis the season for Alberta books
Kissing Keeps Us Afloat – still available at Audreys Books, downtown Edmonton.
kissing keeps us afloat – and on the charts
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 […]
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. […]
‘thank you, this is the worst thing i’ve read’
Spam, wonderful spam! I just got a lovely gift from someone named “buymicrosoftoffice2011” who clearly made a big booboo (or not) and instead of launching one random option from the Worldwide Fake Comment Generator in Spatherdab’s direction, unleashed ALL of the fake comments from Yoda’s House of Interweb Praise and Pain. I’m particularly fond of […]
E-Town Top 30, #7: Firepit Parties
To drive the cold winter away, I’ve been compiling a list of my favourite things about living in Edmonton. You know, good, warm, tasty things that help take the sting out of a six-month chill. Today’s offering is that time-honoured Canadian tradition, the backyard firepit party. I’m pretty certain Edmontonians didn’t invent the firepit, but […]
a little pick-me-up from the spam filter (found poetry)
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