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October 4, 2011
PFRB reviews of Bowling and Heroux
The new issue of Prairie Fire Review of Books contains my reviews of books by poets Tim Bowling and Jason Heroux.
October 1, 2011
frogments from the frag pool (Gary Barwin & derek beaulieu)
Review originally published in Prarie Fire Review of Books frogments from the frag pool by Gary Barwin & derek beaulieu Toronto: Mercury Press, 2005, ISBN 1-55128-112-0, 112 pp., $17.95 paper. frogments from the frag pool is a collection of poetry responding to Matsuo Basho's famous haiku "furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no [...]
September 27, 2011
Priscila Uppal on CLOCKFIRE
I feel like it's CLOCKFIRE "celebrity review" month… from Douglas Barbour to Priscila Uppal. Listen to Uppal's incisive review here.
September 25, 2011
Poetry Review Column in the Winnipeg Free Press
I have taken over the monthly poetry review column in the Winnipeg Free Press: my first column reviews books by Gillian Sze, Cornelia Hoogland, Calvin Wharton, and Stephanie Bolster.
September 14, 2011
Douglas Barbour on CLOCKFIRE
VERY pleased to see Douglas Barbour's insightful take on CLOCKFIRE … if you don't know who Barbour is, you should definitely acquaint yourself of his poetry.
September 13, 2011
Spoony B at Aqua Books
Friday night (Sept. 16), Winnipeg's Aqua Books will screen SPOONY B amongst other short films. Come on out!
September 12, 2011
95 Books…. read!
Although I am still reading, and in fact have read more books than this, I've completed the 95 books challenge so… here's my list! I will break the list down regarding types of books, etc., for interest's sake, when the year is done and we see how far I've really gone. 1. Unclutter Your Life [...]
August 30, 2011
William Faulkner's E! True Hollywood Story
I have said it before and I'll say it again: If you aren't reading the online Paris Review interviews, you're a fool. Here's an excerpt for you. The full interview here. INTERVIEWER Would you comment on that legendary Hollywood experience you were involved in? FAULKNER I had just completed a contract at MGM and was [...]
Faulkner, you're fired.
I found this paper years ago in Robert Kroetsch's archive. A photocopy of an article that somebody (Michael Ondaatje, if I remember correctly) mailed to Kroetsch. The article looks like it came from the Nov. 21, 1970 New Yorker, and is a copy of the letter that Mark Webster, a Mississippi postoffice inspector, sent as [...]
Robert Majzels – 85s project
At long last, Robert Majzels appears to have completed his "85s" project. I published excerpts and other material regarding this project in the Dandelion Translation issue, and am thrilled to finally see the work complete.
