jostle together
Last year’s Steel Bananas anthology GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose is on sale until June 30th as part of Tightrope’s blowout book sale. Below is the assemblage’s cut-up prologue and my poem “(MY)RIAD”. Enjoy!
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Toronto visit, Daniel’s Launch, and Updates
I’m back in Vancouver after a busy two weeks in Toronto, full of meetings, events, and nights out with friends. I intended to keep a better record of my travels, but I didn’t have stable ...
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Free Poems at the Rio Theatre’s HELLRAISER II Fundraiser
Last night at HELLRAISER II (a cabaret/live show/film screening/circus at the Rio Theatre in East Van), I walked around with a placard offering free poems and flowers to people on the street. It was an incredible ...
Wow. Your poem is really beautiful, and the form is really incredible. I read it and re-read it several times to try to capture all of the different phrases, pairings, and nuances. Brilliant work.
The mixture of bittersweet images in this poem is just heartbreaking and beautiful. I really love this one.