You must go to a country without borders, where you can build your home out of garlands of words, where broad leaves shade familiar faces that no longer change in…
Another Country
Canadian Festival of Spoken Word 2007
Reminder to send some love to all the poets shouting their hearts out tonight in Halifax. Inhale! The air will be rich with language… Watch Blog TO and Toronto Poetry Slam…
Watermark
When we walk into the Old Pine Lounge and I see that expression on your face, I realize that you are not who I think you are. You are not…
Junkyard Circus Comes Calling
The Toronto Poetry Slam Team took over The Pilot Lounge in huge fashion last night, as they sold their souls 🙂 for a ride to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Dollar…
The Loving Dexterity The flower fallen she saw it where it lay a pink petal intact deftly placed it on its stem again William Carlos Williams
poets
Do you know how poets live? They write about how others feel about them. They think about words and sounds and meanings and then ping them off each other until…
Dimentia Five: Season Two Premiere
Dimentia Five unfurled itself upon the world last Thursday for the second season in a row, and I was lucky enough to be part of the firestorm. From Nik Beat’s ultra…
Poetry Word Fusion
Dearly Beloveds Not Leaving Town for the Long Weekend: Come out Saturday night and check out a great show at the Free Times Cafe (College, just West of Spadina). Musicians…
Shane Koyczan
Toronto was treated to three days (and nights) of Shane Koyczan over the last week, and every street corner burned brighter as a result. Huge performances at Scream in High…
fault lines
When we are in the kitchen and you bridge a new beginning, I watch myself fold inward and retreat. And you fade to careful silence as I try to say…