Access “Tosca” by clicking the link: http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2013/07/tosca/ Cheers to the Literary Review of Canada in the run-up to their 25th anniversary. All best wishes to their continued success for the next twenty-five years…
Apple cake poem
Access my mother’s apple cake recipe by clicking on the link below. Variations of this cake, imported from Russia’s Pale of Settlement, became a staple in Toronto’s Palmerston Avenue immigrant community in the early 20th century. But disregard my poetic licence because Mother was right — do peel the apples for a better cake texture. Also substitute pears or plums for the apples. Enjoy! http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2013/12/apple-cake-variations-on-a-palmerston-avenue-theme/
Words Sing for National Poetry Month, April 2015
Words Sing — Teen Poetry Workshop and Performance Celebrate National Poetry Month this April 2015. Join us as we play with words and make them sing. We will learn about poems and poets and build a poetry chapbook of our poems to share with the library public. No prior experience is needed. Workshop Dates: April 9 (Thursday), 16 (Thursday), 22 (Wednesday) Performance Date: April 30 (Thursday)…
Dead Poets, continued
Many thanks to Art Bar Reading Series and David Clink for the 2014 Dead Poets Society Night. In response to many questions I post the sources for my Audre Lorde readings. From Lorde’s last collection, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987–1992, I read “Speechless” and “Change.” I synthesized versions of the following statement she repeated numerous times in The Cancer Journals: “Once I accept the existence…
Dead Poets Society Night 2014, Art Bar Poetry Series
8 pm, THE BLACK SWAN TAVERN (upstairs) 154 Danforth Avenue, east of the Broadview subway station, Toronto. 12th annual Dead Poets Society Night at the Art Bar Poetry Series Tuesday, December 16th, 2014. 8 pm. No open stage. A hat will be passed. 15 readers will be reading for 5-6 minutes each from the works of dead poets: Valentino Assenza reading Nik Beat Suzanne Bowness reading Carl Sandburg Philip…
Music-Evoked Imagery Workshop, June 6, 2014, 3:00–4:00 pm
I am providing an introduction to music-evoked imagery (MEI) at the 2014 League of Canadian Poets conference. MEI is a music-centred exploration of consciousness derived from pioneering music therapy research. During MEI dyadic sessions, various imagery forms — visual, auditory, sensory, memory, movement — are experienced when listening to music in an altered state of consciousness while dialoguing with a trained facilitator. We will explore…
Pulp Literature spring 2014 poem
Pulp Literature recently published my poem, “a Siren’s tale” in Issue 2. I am delighted to be included in this new and unique literary journal. Pulp Literature, dedicated to good writing, deliberately blends literary genres and mixes storytelling styles. They combine the fun of a dime-store pulp paperback with quality literature “for the price of a beer.” Order Pulp Literature from http://pulpliterature.com/subscribe/. The journal can be found in the vicinity…
Toronto Area Music Therapists meet again
TAMT is an informal network of individual MTAs who meet to share clinical, professional, and political issues relevant for music therapy practice in the Greater Toronto Area. Geographical boundaries set May 26, 2013, include Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Maple, Durham Regions (Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering), Newmarket, Aurora, Sutton, Barrie, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, and Brampton. Join us Sunday, February 9, 2–4 pm, as TAMT meets to…
Literary Review of Canada on newsstands now
The LRC July/August issue (Vol. 21, No. 6) placed a poem of mine that was submitted to their ekphrastic poetry call. Ekphrastic poetry is inspired by or comments on another art form, such as dance, art or music. Spoiler alert: sardonic opera content. Now, back to summer….
Livewords Poetry Series: reading from Carousel 30
I read from Carousel 30 in the Live Words reading to launch Carousel 31 — and celebrate National Poetry Month: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 7:30 pm The Black Swan, 2nd floor, 154 Danforth Ave., Toronto, hosted by Livewords Poetry Reading Series. Carousel 30 is on newsstands now….