desire
‘That Laurie MacFayden, she’s a howler’
Lovely review of Kissing Keeps Us Afloat from Michael Dennis over at Today’s Book of Poetry. And when I say lovely, I mean fan-fucking-tastic. Some highlights: kissing keeps us afloat is a sustained torrent, a laughing rush, a relentless scream/yodel of passion. This red boat has no oars as it crashes against the shores of love, breaks […]
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her holy hands scorch me that effervescent grin the laugh that went into the candle wax those splashing eyes her fingers a myriad of vowels, of consonants that eclectic thing she does when she breathes me in her winsome writing dress introspection is where she stepped onto the bus murmuration is where she got off […]
Get your lust on
This ain’t no namby-pamby cinnamon hearts & chocolate flowers couples fest. This is Gypsy Valentine, an afternoon of smokin’ hot verse and bohemian music at Leva Cafe on Sunday, Feb. 13. Edmonton poets Mandie Lopatka, Kelly Shepherd and Amy Willans and I will start the fire, accompanied by the smouldering violin of Karen Donaldson Shepherd […]