Muriel Rukeyser
There are … two kinds of reaching in poetry, one based on the document, the evidence itself; the other informed by the unverifiable fact, as in sex, dream, the parts…
Read moreThere are … two kinds of reaching in poetry, one based on the document, the evidence itself; the other informed by the unverifiable fact, as in sex, dream, the parts…
Read moreBeing a writer is a dangerous thing. You wade into passion, flailed by the worried glances of relatives who watch you get older, fill your bookshelves (instead of your womb)…
Read moreDecades before I began writing, I was exhuberant about photography. Saturday mornings were spent, with the blessing of my grade ten Art Teacher, holed up in the darkroom of my…
Read moreOver the last two decades, I have been lucky enough to take part in the exhuberant chaos of York Region’s Fine Arts Camp. First as a camper, and now as an…
Read moreVery excited to be featuring tonight at Hot Sauced Words, hosted by James Dewar at Blackswan Tavern (Danforth & Broadview)! 8PM onward, hope to see you there…!
Read moreA mother’s love liberates. — Maya Angelou
Read moreAt the 2012 TPS Finals, hosted at Royal Cinema Theater, a gorgeous live theater in Toronto’s Little Italy, Toronto Poetry Project decided to create an artefact that would do the night…
Read moreJust a note to highlight the amazing Record a Poem Project, put on by the ever amazing Poetry Foundation (which is also home to Poetry, the oldest monthly dedicated to…
Read more“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been…
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