Thresholds – Edmonton Poetry Festival 2016
Let me break with regular posts to offer this plug—as I’m honoured to host this event, which is part of the 2016 Edmonton Poetry Festival: Thresholds: Seven poe...
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Honouring the madness of poetry–dedicated to the Edmonton Poetry Festival
I suppose every poet writes at least one poem about poetry, although it’s obviously bad form to make a habit of it—for, as is attributed to that other habit, yo...
On cutting open a poet—Edmonton Poetry Festival
In view of the Edmonton Poetry Festival, here’s a poem for poets and other kinds of surgeons. I read this poem for “Gettin’ Gritty” at Zocalo, but it has change...
Rutabaga–roots poetry, commuter poetry
Due to overwhelming demand (a request by a friend I’ll call Jeff), and because not all Grow Mercy readers (the throng in the phone booth) take the bus or ...