Invitation to Work-in-Process

It’s my very great privilege to have been asked to curate, host and take part in a reading on May 28th, featuring new and unpublished works from three amazing Indigenous writing colleagues who inherit and live part of the breadth and richness of Indigenous heritage across Canada.. Rita Bouvier is a Métis writer and educator. Her…

Book Trailer – Urbane

“If only I had just punched her in the face.”  Having survived a stint as a shapeshifter’s accomplice on a mission of vengeance and redemption, unlicensed detective and self-professed asshole Hazel LeSage returns. The aftermath of violence has left Hazel with questions, wounds and unexpected friends including Shanaya Bhattacharya, a very unusual lawyer whose thirst…

Stonehouse Launch – You’re Invited!

June 3rd, 2023, Stonehouse Publishing launches its 2023 season, featuring URBANE, sequel to Humane. Preorder here. You can also order Stonehouse’s complete Spring 2023 package, including new works from DKStone, Sandra Kelly and Anthony Bidulka.

ShapeShifters! In Conversation

https://fb.me/e/3dXX6UgOM Sunday the 19th the day; life has been turbulent, but we’ve finally found enough elements in alignment to sit down together and talk about ShapeShifting. Come on out. Richard Lemm is a brilliant thinker, writer and conversationalist, and I’m tickled to bits to have the chance to spend some time in public conversation. 4…

Recordings

Outer Space, Inner Light – Words AMS, Music Mari Alice Conrad, Premiere performance by Pro Coro Canada At First Light – Words AMS, Music Mari Alice Conrad, Premiere recording by Exultate Choir Journey Song – Words AMS, Music Mari Alice Conrad, Premiere recording by BaBel Choir Alasen Matieg – Words and Music, AMS Goodnight Amerika…

Outer Space, Inner Light

As midwinter shows the first hints of spring to come, I’m excitedly awaiting the premiere of Outer Space, Inner Light; I wrote the text in response to a choral score by the amazing Mari Alice Conrad, who wrote that score in response to a different poem, Book of Songs,* which was the title and text…

Stars

First published in 2017; tis the season to repost. Joy in the Journey* is one of the themes of Advent, which is a central part of the Catholic religion, to which my mom was faithful. For me, that thought always takes me back to a dark country road, under a green and white blanket, under…

On American Thanksgiving Day

As an Indigenous person (albeit in Canada, where we celebrate Thanksgiving in October), I hold that holiday to be an occasion of potentiality. I consider, on that day, the vision of my Indigenous ancestors, who welcomed newcomers, taught them to survive, and (contrary to the propaganda) hosted the table and laid the feast, offering of the…

At First Light

Here’s Toronto’s Exultate Choir performing a morning meditation of mine, set for choir by Mari Alice Conrad. Her setting received the Stephen Chatman Award for student composition this spring at Podium, Canada’s national choral symposium, when this video was recorded. Here’s the original post of At First Light, which I wrote in May 2020 as…