One of my professional goals is to work with orchestras. Friday, I get my first chance. tellmeastory_poster_v2_final_10-17-19 I’m guesting with Metropolitan Orchestra, performing a poetic piece composed to weave along with Legend #1. What’s my text about? A certain time traveling lapine makes use of the moon in order to visit a composer in Bohemia,…
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Home Words: Come Out and Play!
Poetry Month is upon us. For 2019 Edmonton Poetry Festival I’m honoured to be performing at 3 events, sharing the stage with some very fine wordsmiths. If you’re in Edmonton, come on out (I can’t promise I won’t ask you to sing along) – CKUA Studios on the 23rd, 6 PM, CBC Centre Stage at Noon on…
Hear the WORD
Tomorrow night, I get to spend an hour with Michael James and Thea Bowering, talking about words, music, religion, sex and politics. What’s more fun than campus radio? Indie, intellectual and evolving. Check it out! Word on CJSR
Poster Child
How about that? I’m a poster child, at my well-established age. It hadn’t been a career ambition, but it is an honour, to have my face (for better or worse, my own) out there in support of a really great cultural program. Want to know who we are as Canadians? Bring Canadian authors to your…
For the Changing Moon: thoughts on Poems&Songs
My new book is out. The publisher-endorsed launch happened Wednesday, October 24th, 7 PM at Audrey’s Books, with special guests Edmonton’s own Spoken Word Youth Choir, under the direction of the fabulous Gail Sobat. This is book number two, yes, only number two. The long years of discussion and consideration of what it costs to…
2014: Nomads
it’s 2014, high june i tour to toronto i am not a rock star i will not become a rock star but i am paid to make poems. i meet up with zooey we started out together as lesser-thans in our creative writing class like mice or bees, the way we moved made our…
Bonus Poem:Moon Lune Luna Personal
Here’s the poem with which i started this year’s French/Spanish translation project. This is the version i collaged into a 3-language piece that i used to lure Madame Giselle Lemire into a crazy-fun trilingual performance experiment. Moon Lune Luna Personal En el fulcro Au point d’équilibre balance point between l’été y otoño la…
On Tour! ArtBar, Black Coffee Video, and a Wild West Literary Bunfight with Kris Demeanor!
Two stops is a tour, right? Two stops with three events, that is. Monday, i’m off to Toronto. Tuesday the 17th, i’ll be guesting at The ArtBar Poetry Series, longest running poetry series in Toronto. How about that? One of the organisers is an old friend from university days, Stephen Humphrey. I owe Stephen a…
PoemCatcher Suite
On February 27th, I’ll present new work, Poem Catcher Suite, at The Glass Door Coffeehouse in Millwoods. This event is produced by the Millwoods Artists’ Collective, who get up to all sorts of creative shenanigans down in our city’s southeast. Here’s a look at the line-up: Glass Door Headliners, Feb. 27, 2014 7 -9 PM Koffee…
garage sale find
Here’s a poem originally published in Fifth World Drum, back in 2009 (Frontenac House, Calgary) It’s an experiment in creating simple mp3 files, with the help of my friend and mentor, Gerry Potter. Thanks, Gerry.
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