Lara Bozabalian (left) alongside Billie Rector and Amanda Hiebert, in the final round of the Toronto Poetry Slam, June 2008.
Read moreWas lucky enough to catch TOFU (Tons of Fun University) a few weeks back, featuring the rubix minds of Shane Koyczan, CR Avery and Mike McGee. These three fuse spoken…
Read moreThank You & Upcoming Readings
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Plasticine Poetry Awards last night and honoured me with Best Spoken Word Artist. I will be featuring at the Plasticine Poetry…
Read moreNight Garden
Your mouth, a hand against my mouth. Pressed to earth, we dream of ocean: heat-soaked, washed with exhaustion, our mariner’s sleep haunted by smells of garden–fresh rosemary thirty miles off…
Read moreThe Betrayal of the Body
”A person experiences the reality of the world only through his body…..If the body is relatively unalive, a person’s impressions and responses are diminished. The more alive the body is,…
Read morePlasticine Poetry Awards
Everyone welcome to the Plasticine Poetry Awards being held tonight in The Central (603 Markham Street). Thanks to Micheal Frasier et all for a nod in the Best Spoken Word…
Read morePhantom Limbs
Few buildings, few lives? are built so well? even their ruins are beautiful. ~ Anne Michaels
Read moreMermaid Song
for Aya at fifteen Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself upside down across the sofa, reading, one hand idly sunk into a bowl of crackers, goldfish with smiles stamped…
Read morethe absence of what came before (part two)
you tell yourself what you have to (usually poor them) until words fail you and you can’t hide anymore you are different, more than this you have yourself to answer…
Read moreThe Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
It is nearly always like this, a man torments himself, frets, thinks the worst, believes that the world is about to demand a full explanation, when in fact, the world…
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