Thrilled to bits that Urbane is a finalist, and in fine company, for a City of Edmonton Arts Prize. https://www.edmontonarts.ca/blog/12-edmonton-arts-prize-finalists-announced-today Purchase your copy through StonehousePublishing.
Category: in our community
Essay up at Edmonton Arts Council
Tickled to bits at the opportunity to write about my artistic practice for the Edmonton Arts Council. https://www.edmontonarts.ca/blog/giving-up-a-sumo-wrestling-wild-horse-speaks-of-marathons Thanks to Kyra and Jenna and all the EAC team. The title photo attempts homage to Devin, one of my favourite characters in the Amiskwaciy novels…
Poem up at The Polyglot’s Pensieri
I’m so thrilled to be part of The Polyglot, a group of writers dedicated to celebrating multi-language writing. Honoured to have my poem Being As Matryoshka posted in their new Pensieri blog.
Zoom Saloon Prompts
Hey, friends. Thanks to all who came out to the Zoom Saloon with Robert Okaji. As promised there, here’s our ghazal exchange and the invitation to respond in verse via the comment section here (or on his site). If you weren’t able to tune in today, and yet feel inspired to versify, please do. In…
Welcome to Zoom Saloon!
This Saturday, February 10th, at 1 PM Mountain time, I have the great pleasure of hosting the very first edition of Zoom Saloon. This event will feature noted American poet Robert Okaji, in conversation and reading from his extensive body of work. Joining Bob will be Stephanie L. Harper. For my part, I’ll be joined…
Guest Poetry Post: Don Perkins
Evergreen Pond – Doublespeak I, too, have celebrated it as a gift, taken joy, tuned and retuned my senses to the rippling surface, to the shifting collective greens, to the whisperings of reeds in the wind, to the trill of the blackbirds and the chortling of the ducks, to the desperate energy of fledglings taking…
Want to join a Book Club?
It’s my great honour that Humane(2020,Stonehouse Publishing, first of the Amiskwaciy novels) has been chosen for the Literary Press Group of Canada’s Summer Book Club. Read all about it! https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2023/ALU-Summer-Book-Club-Interview-with-Anna-Marie-Sewell
As Good as It Gets
Is there a better moment in arts and culture work than this? To look out on a packed venue of friends, family, and community colleagues, and realize you have a place, you have work to do, and that you are blessed to know a whole lot of kind, generous, supportive souls there for you. Because…
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…
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.
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