BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA. Saturday October 19 Reading: Karen Mac Cormack and Shannon Maguire | 7:30 p.m. […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Colin Fulton
“If the statement ‘I am a poet’ is structurally identical to the statement ‘I am a macaron,’ then it’s either an unverifiable statement or macarons are sentient. And I’m totally […]
Continue readingWeekly roundup, October 10-18
BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA. This, our first weekly roundup, also features some special events for Thursday, October […]
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I recently declared fall my favourite season. The decision was based largely on my affinity for pumpkin spice anything and my obsession with boots and leather jackets, but the season […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #22: Aisha Sasha John
self-portrait self-hugging elegance being a favourite escape elegance itself always wanting it felt true and that’s elegance, grace like a calm wind I am happy to know such elegance and […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #21: Shannon Maguire
from “Pearl/Buttons” near the hour of dawn a stranger unfamiliar flowers she might have been named Sylvia or Buttons or Applied Computing Astrolabe and near to her the split of daisy bombs 53 reviews […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #20: David B. Goldstein
WHAT LUCY USED TO BE What Lucy used to be, I now am. Or rather, I accommodate her foibles; they live on in me now that she is gone. For […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #19: Colin Fulton
Friendship You can say it. Our friendship concluded conceptually over the course of several uneventful weeks, and our poems lent recognition to and provided impetus for many world movements. Long […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #18: Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts
from The Obvious Flap I am not a slack bard, I don’t want a chorus. Here under the bird world, there is movement between h and m, between humans and […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #17: Kim Minkus
3 nonets from “24 Nonets After Reading Edward Byrne’s Sonnets: Louise Labé” 7 Lying spirit tightly strung you are most dangerous with all the points of your desire I come […]
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