Morgan Wade's Blog, page 12
September 26, 2011
A new poem – what we are never ceases
I'm working on a poem right now that takes these two epigraphs as a starting point:
Though we cease as we now are, what we are never ceases.
- Paragraph 22, Chapter 1, Book 14, The Good Book.
I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be.
- Song of Myself, #44, Walt Whitman
I find both of these lines so compelling. I hope to have something finished that I can submit to the new Hidden Brook anthology: That Not Forgotten.
http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-NShore-ThatNotForgotten.html
August 31, 2011
The Last Stoic Now Available at Novel Idea
Novel Idea, an independent book store in Kingston, Ontario is now carrying The Last Stoic.
August 24, 2011
Truth – Short Fiction in The New Quarterly
My short story Truth appears in the newly published "QuArc Issue", a special, combined edition of The New Quarterly and Arc Poetry Magazine. The New Quarterly asked for "particle fictions", short stories that take as their title and/or theme one of the fanciful names given by scientists to the six types of quarks: Charm, Strange, Up, Down, Truth, and Beauty.
While I strongly recommend anyone who is interested to pick up a copy of this excellent magazine or better yet to take out a subscription, some pieces, including Truth, are available for reading online.
Click here to read the Truth on the QuArc website.
Audio – Last Stoic Launch at Queen's Grad Club
Audio from The Last Stoic portion of the Hidden Brook book launch that took place June 3rd, 2011 at the Queen's University Grad Club:
Morgan Wade reading from chapter 8 of The Last Stoic
With many thanks to Bruce Kauffman, Kingston poet and radio host on CFRC 101.9fm, for hosting the book launch and for providing this audio clip.
July 31, 2011
Reading at PurdyFest
Reading at PurdyFest in Marmora, Sunday July 31, 2011, at 2PM as part of the CCLA (Canada Cuba Literary Alliance) group reading.
PurdyFest: http://www.quinteartscouncil.org/Qac/QAC/arts/purdyfest.htm
July 15, 2011
The Last Stoic now available at the Kingston Library
The Last Stoic is now available for borrowing from the Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Click here to reserve.
http://catalogue.kfpl.ca/kfplvw/FullB...
June 30, 2011
The Last Stoic
Order the book now! Only $20 for Canadian orders – includes shipping. International options coming soon.
The Last Stoic can also be purchased (domestic and international orders) at these online booksellers: Amazon.com Barnes and Noble
Bees Knees at the library
The Bees Knees is now available at the Kingston Public Library!
June 20, 2011
Audio Recording – Last Stoic Launch
For those of you who missed the Last Stoic book launch at the Queen's University Grad Club, the reading will be replayed this coming Friday, from 4-6pm, on CFRC 101.9fm's "finding a voice". Tara Kainer, Diane Dawber, and myself (all from the HBP North Shore Series Book Launch at the grad club earlier this month) in the first hour, and Susan Olding from the May Thrive Reading series in the second hour.
Recordings or readings can also be heard online through live or archived feed at www.cfrc.ca
June 14, 2011
"Peak Civilization": The Fall of the Roman Empire
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5528
An interesting (if long) article comparing the fall of Rome to other civilizations, including our own. He quotes Marcus Aurelius, "Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be ever new."
Or, as Heraclitus put it, more succinctly, "the only constant is change."
