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Two Launches

Saturday September 21, 2024 I will get as close as I can to being in two places at once, without invoking quantum physics. At 2 p.m. the Hill Spirits Anthology, to which I have contributed a poem, will be launched at the Cobourg Library. Admission includes a copy of the book. At the same time […]

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A Celebration!

The Art Gallery of Northumberland celebration was a welcome contrast to earlier in the week when I spent an afternoon in downtown Toronto where the foot traffic was sparse and the streets winter-ugly. The Juried Show’s and Brooke Johnson’s Show’s varied and imaginative artworks invite a second visit when it’s less crowded and more conducive

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Thursday September 21/23

This week! I will be reading at the Third Thursday Reading Series in the Northumberland Room at the Best Western Cobourg Inn, 7:30 p.m. September 21 2023. I’ll read from my 2021 chapbook, What I Don’t Know, along with new work that honours Thursday being the United Nations International Day of Peace!

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Asemic

Asemic writing is a hybrid art form that fuses text and image into a unity, and then sets it free to arbitrary subjective interpretations (wikipedia). Chrysanthemum, one of my favourite journals, publishes modern verse in the tradition of Japanese short poetry. It now includes an expanded section on Visual Art, covering not only traditional haiga, but

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