Interview about On Occasion
Thanks for the interview! Brooke Lee and I had a conversation about On Occasion. You can find it up on Montreal Review of Books. Thanks to the editors there as well.
New line-up for our Toronto event on July 22! Very much looking forward to meeting those of you I haven’t yet met, and to seeing old friends. Come if you can! What a line-up!
On Occasion: Poems for the People
Launching in Montreal May 12 & Toronto May 21 The Toronto launch on May 21 is a group launch—we are planning a separate launch. Possibly not until the fall. Stay tuned. We are slowly planning other launches as well. If you want a launch in your town, be in touch!! editor@occasionalpoems.ca
One Poem Sue Goyette
from MONOCULTURE Sue Goyette They will have understood how they were misrepresented and not even considered. They will have seen the photo of the ancient grandmother tree, her trunk held down by chains driven down a highway to some fuckery of a plan. They will have gathered and agreed no action is…
Karen Solie at Concordia
I invited Karen Solie to read at our Celebration of On Occasion: Poems for the People last Friday. I wanted to have her alongside emerging writers (Misha Solomon, Chanel Sutherland, Sabyah Seyam, Ethel Meilleur, Lena Palacios, TLiem, myself, and my colleague Stephanie Bolster), but she was unable to make that event. Instead we are hosting…
Spring!!
Love, love, & love!I see you everywhere,In the owly trunks of Maples;In the many eyes of the birch,In the soft spring snow—Like whipped creamLaid over the tipsOf daffodils & crocusThat together trumpet spring,Spring! Spring!
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