Curious things for December 2013...
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2) Dusie’s Tuesday Poem series has been running since April and in that eight month span gathered an eclectic and highly respected roster of contributors. While the parent website (www.dusie.org) is managed from Switzerland, this blog series is curated by fellow canuck rob mclennan and boasts a who’s-who of (mostly) North American poets. Well-known and emerging names converge in an informal, one-poem-per-week trickle-down. Checking in each Tuesday has become such a natural habit, it hadn’t crossed my mind to plug it here until now!
3) The minds
behind Rattle, a print and online poetry journal out of Studio City,
California, have devised a beautiful anthology comprised exclusively of authors who are children. Spearheaded by editor Timothy Green and entitled RYPA, the
collection’s 60 poems quietly underscore the raw feelings and imagination that
inspire one to write in the first place. It’s grounding to remember those
origins, and worth celebrating. Details and ordering information for RYPA can be found here.
4) Every city
deserves an events website as devoted to creativity as Ottawa’s Apartment613.
Last Tuesday, they featured a holiday gift list focused on books by writers
around the National Capital Region, covering genres like science fiction, political
journalism, mystery and of course poetry! Small blurbs support Sandra Ridley’s
The Counting House, Christine McNair’s Conflict, Nicholas Gagnier’s Ground
Zero, Chris Jennings’ Occupations as well as the work of Sonia Saikaley, Cameron Anstee’s Apt 9 Press and rob mclennan (who gets his own category). If you’re unsure where to begin with
Ottawa’s literary community, this gift list provides more than enough links to
get you started.
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