happenings

Word on the Hills, talking about writing and art!

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

I have a new altered book assemblage in this year’s juried show at the AGN. The opening reception is Saturday January 13 2024 at 1 p.m. See you there!

My recent haiga has been published in Chrysanthemum issue 31, page 31! See it here: http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/en/current-issue.html

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!

Why are we here? To engage with life! Meet, chat with, and buy books from local writers at the Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group booth at the Cobourg Waterfront Festival.

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

My new poem has been published in https://www.cloudlakeliterary.ca/shop/pre-order-cloud-lake-literary-volume-five in time to remember the fallen.

I am totally thrilled to be part of this fascinating exhibit!

Join me at the Opening Reception 2-4 p.m. Sept 17/22, where two of my altered-book-poem-settings have been selected for exhibit! https://thecolborneartgallery.ca/juried-show-2022/