tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101981092024-03-21T05:53:42.949-05:00The Jane Day ReaderIntended as a repository of photos, poems-in-progress, and news, The Jane Day Reader will blare and babble, bubble and squeak, semi-regularly.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.comBlogger1769125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-55236805157328827692019-05-05T14:41:00.000-05:002019-05-11T14:53:40.003-05:00Hamilton launch of Treed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hamilton is such a great city for a book like Treed. It's surrounded by forests and waterfalls, it has a great urban forest, and, between the trees: bookstores. Like Epic Books, where I spent an epic afternoon handselling books as part of Authors for Indies Day a few years ago and King Street Books, which will be hosting Daniel Coleman and I for a signing in a few weeks.<br />
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And then there's Wolsak & Wynn's Spring Launch, where all the authors of spring 2019 titles will read and celebrate their books.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-69715228803572613622019-05-01T14:36:00.000-05:002019-05-11T14:41:09.253-05:00Toronto launch of Treed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm greatly looking forward to the Toronto launch of <a href="https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/non-fiction/products/treed" target="_blank">Treed: Walking in Canada's Urban Forest,</a> mostly because I get to launch with Jo Cullen, Natalee Caple, Sally Cooper, and Becky Blake, because I get to launch with Wolsak & Wynn.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-23257227509801331372019-03-14T17:44:00.000-05:002019-03-19T21:11:08.198-05:00CFS: 2019 NPM in the WFPFor the fourth year in a row, the <i>Winnipeg Free Press</i> will be hosting a National Poetry Month project. Taking a leaf from the League of Canadian Poets, the 2019 edition of NPM in the WFP will focus on nature poetry.<br />
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Are there mice in your lyric poems, skunks in your sonnets, or snow geese in your prose poems? Do you write about climate change or gardening or roadside animals? Do you write about urban nature or are your nature poems set on farms, provincial park trailheads, or dockside? Send them to us!<br />
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<b>Eligible writers:</b> Winnipeg writers. NPM in the WFP is committed to a diversity of voices: emerging, PoC, spoken word, Indigenous, established, LGBTQ+, and page poets. <br />
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<li>Email previously unpublished poemson the theme of “nature” to <a href="mailto:poetrymonthwfp@gmail.com">poetrymonthwfp@gmail.com</a>.</li>
<li>The DEADLINE for submissions is March 29, 2019.</li>
<li>Submit a maximum of 5 poems. Each poem should be no more than 25 lines.</li>
<li>Please submit your poems in one Word document (PDF or RTF also acceptable). </li>
<li> Send a short bio (max 40 words), both in the body of the email AND in your submission</li>
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<b>Ariel Gordon</b> is the author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Recent projects include the anthology <i>GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times</i>, co-edited with Tanis MacDonald and Rosanna Deerchild. On May 27, she will be launching her latest book, <i>Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests </i>(Wolsak & Wynn).<br />
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<b>John Toews</b> is the Event Coordinator at McNally Robinson Booksellers. He was granted Honorary Membership in the League of Canadian Poets in 2015.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-26908864707809344082018-11-17T14:05:00.003-06:002018-11-17T14:11:06.690-06:00In Conversation: Jenna Butler<a href="https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/in-conversation-jenna-butler-500689531.html" target="_blank">Winnipeg Free Press—PRINT EDITION</a><br />
<a href="https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/in-conversation-jenna-butler-500689531.html" target="_blank">by Ariel Gordon</a><br />
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Jenna Butler teaches English and creative writing at Red Deer College. But most weekends, she makes the three-hour drive to her farm in the boreal forest near Barrhead, Alberta. <br />
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Her latest book—<a href="https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-16932/Jenna-Butler-with-Special-Guests----Book-Launch?fbclid=IwAR0AxKTe-IQs0g5F6-YKFdW2tGUbfyoSvKqFlNS7hA5elkyJp3D_arp6qMs#.W_B0Cy3MyRu" target="_blank">which launches Wednesday (November 21) at McNally Robinson Booksellers</a>—takes readers from a farmhouse in the bush to a berth in a ship travelling to Svalbard, off the coast of Norway. <br />
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<b>Winnipeg Free Press: </b>What do you want people to know about <a href="http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/919-9781772123821-magnetic-north" target="_blank">Magnetic North</a>?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVwDAhyphenhyphenmvvm5CJF8EwbNFUr-Qrhrx6aeU-bjoqNUpBSACmuJo4y-kkIdLvlIZNQ-VtSucPcbDFtjnebQ7KpdQG8kijnwEmJ6ANb2r1rxu3vBIKD6WgpieAceYyFhNN_CmsQUYtQ/s1600/9781772123821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="934" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVwDAhyphenhyphenmvvm5CJF8EwbNFUr-Qrhrx6aeU-bjoqNUpBSACmuJo4y-kkIdLvlIZNQ-VtSucPcbDFtjnebQ7KpdQG8kijnwEmJ6ANb2r1rxu3vBIKD6WgpieAceYyFhNN_CmsQUYtQ/s400/9781772123821.jpg" width="232" /></a><b>Jenna Butler:</b> <i>Magnetic North</i> looks at lands under threat — the Norwegian Arctic, the northern Canadian boreal. It asks, "What are the stories under the surface", and "Why is it that some voices are privileged in narratives of land, exploration, and connection to place, while others must find subversive outlets from which to speak?" It looks to the resilience, deep strength, and strong bonds of women in the building of community in northern climates. <br />
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<b>FP:</b> What are your goals for this book?<br />
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<b>JB:</b> I hope it conveys a little of the extraordinary beauty of the Norwegian Arctic, a beauty you have to work hard for as a visitor to that place, and I hope it makes readers consider the ways in which the places they call home are being reconfigured by climate change. There’s no "maybe" about it any longer; it’s happening, and the lands we love and resonantly know are shifting in tremendous ways. I hope readers will also be challenged to think carefully about the importance of women’s narratives to a balanced sense of place. Women are canny observers of power dynamics and of connection between the body and the land. <br />
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<b>FP:</b> You’ve done a variety of retreats and residencies over the years, but spending two weeks confined to a tall ship in the Arctic must have been interesting...<br />
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<b>JB:</b> Ha, it certainly was. I’m an introvert, and being in company 24/7 for two weeks of 24-hour daylight was intense. Not only is your body undergoing a reprogramming of sorts to deal with this rewiring of your circadian rhythm, but there’s NO privacy whatsoever. Every space is shared, from where you eat and pass the day to where you sleep. I gained a new appreciation for the ways in which humans adapt to living in close company, especially in an environment that can quite easily kill you, should you misstep or go overboard. Living on the ship was like being under a searchlight, in every sense of the term, from the blinding sun on snow all hours of the day and night, to the constant company and the inability to follow your own routines of solitude and seclusion. I did a lot of people-watching and learned to recognize when my colleagues were going through similar cycles of fear, boredom, anger, homesickness, awe, and so on. Living on the ship gave me new insight into the various faces we wear in others’ company, as well as the concept that darkness and its accompanying privacy, wherein we can think and process emotion, are actually great privileges. <br />
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<b>FP:</b> You’re written five books of poetry and non-fiction since 2010, when <i>Aphelion</i> came out with NeWest Press. What have you learned about your process?<br />
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<b>JB:</b> I’ve become much better at reading my body for cues about the writing process and where I am in it. I don’t worry about where the next book will come from in the same way that I once did—I know it’s there, and I can often see or sense it around the corner of the current project. Then it’s a case of writing toward what’s coming down the line at me, meeting the new work halfway. I’ve learned to pinpoint where I am in the creative process, whether that’s the rather omnivorous gathering of research or listening to music or taking photographs — the pre-writing — versus the insistent, behind-the-sternum push of needing to sit down, clear the decks, and actually write. <br />
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<b>FP: </b>What are you reading right now? What are you writing right now?<br />
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<b>JB:</b> I’m reading Esi Edugyan’s <i>Washington Black</i> and Tanya Talaga’s <i>Seven Fallen Feathers</i>, and I’ve only just finished Vivek Shraya’s <i>I’m Afraid of Men</i> and Andrew Miller’s <i>Now We Shall Be Entirely Free</i>, so they’re still living in my head. Shraya is incisive, brave, and honest, and Miller writes historical fiction with these beautiful, poetic turns of phrase. They couldn’t be more different as writers, and yet there’s much to love in each one. <br />
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I’m writing in and around end-of-term marking at work and winter prep out on our farm, so everything is happening in these curiously curtailed little jerks of productivity. I’m working on another non-fiction book, this one about women, beekeeping, and community-building — what draws them to the work, what they find in it for themselves, and how they create belonging. I’m also researching for a novel set in 19th century London during the rise of early feminism, and making some strange gestures toward a text about women of colour, loss, and land.<br />
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<b>Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg writer.</b></div>
Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-45569580069636013762018-11-16T15:11:00.000-06:002018-11-17T15:12:41.223-06:00Sunny boulevard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />I feel like we all need this sunny boulevard. Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-30260843697876646882018-11-15T12:23:00.002-06:002018-11-15T12:23:22.139-06:00GUSHing for Xmas?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hey menstruators! If you're looking for a good gift for the women and girls in your life, why not GUSH? It's got 100+ excellent Canadian authors and was edited by me, Tanis MacDonald</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, and Rosanna Deerchild</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span>Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-61997946840842215342018-11-13T12:29:00.000-06:002018-11-15T12:32:48.594-06:00Reading with Jenna Butler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So <a href="https://www.jennabutler.com/" target="_blank">Jenna Butler</a> is one of my favourite people: determined, talented, and kind. I'm so happy to be <a href="https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-16932/Jenna-Butler-with-Special-Guests----Book-Launch?fbclid=IwAR0AxKTe-IQs0g5F6-YKFdW2tGUbfyoSvKqFlNS7hA5elkyJp3D_arp6qMs#.W-26Ly3MyRu" target="_blank">reading with her and Kate Bitney to launch her latest book, Magnetic North</a>.<br />
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I'm going to be reading an excerpt from one of the essays in <i>Treed</i>, which will be published this May with Wolsak & Wynn.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-58651536506818232382018-11-12T12:27:00.000-06:002018-11-15T12:28:41.979-06:00GUSH reviewed in Herizons!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So <a href="https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781927823798/rosanna-deerchild/gush-menstrual-manifestos-for-our-times?blnBKM=1" target="_blank">GUSH</a> was reviewed in <a href="http://www.herizons.ca/" target="_blank">Herizons</a> by Courtney Dickson. Yaaaaay! It's so lovely to see some of these reviews coming in...<br />
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From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of <a href="http://ambp.ca/pbn/" target="_blank">Prairie books NOW</a>.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-36311821395011016882018-06-07T17:10:00.000-05:002018-06-07T16:33:10.424-05:00GUSH profiled in PBN!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kyla Neufeld interviewed Tanis MacDonald about GUSH for the spring/summer 2018 issue of <a href="http://ambp.ca/pbn/" target="_blank">Prairie Books NOW</a>.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-72338064644531127442018-06-07T16:21:00.002-05:002018-06-07T16:21:36.432-05:00PBN: Brenda Schmidt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And <i>GUSH</i> is off to the printers!!! Yaaaaaay! Go grateful to Frontenac House, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tanismacdonald/">T</a>anis MacDonald + Rosanna Deerchild. And, of course, ALL the contributors!Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-38271991028528368122018-05-01T17:18:00.000-05:002018-05-15T17:19:15.428-05:00Launching NPM in the WFP 2018!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was super tired and Jason had the flu, but we launched the NPM in the WFP 2018 and it was a great night. Standing room only, lots of new-to-me voices, lots of fun.<br />
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Walked down Palmerston again today, entranced by the big old elms... Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-30663229574627550522018-04-24T11:30:00.000-05:002018-05-16T11:31:27.487-05:00Halfway Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought I'd share Mike's photos from the Halfway Tree, a big old cottonwood midway between Brandon and Winnipeg.Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-32181177489320375552018-04-22T11:20:00.000-05:002018-04-22T11:20:14.582-05:00NPM in the 2018: PRINTED!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My deep thanks to participating poets: Di Brandt, Conni Cartlidge, Rebecca Danos, Kristian Enright, Sarah Ens, J. Robert Ferguson, Sally Ito, Ted Landrum, Louella Lester, Kim MacRae, Michael Minor, Amber O’Reilly, Patricia Robertson, and David Yerex Williamson.</div>
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See you 7pm on April 30 at McNally's <a href="http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-16488/National-Poetry-Month-in-the-Winnipeg-Free-Press-2018-Launch#.Wty2Ay-ZORs" target="_blank">for the launch of the 2018 NPM in the WFP project</a>!</div>
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From Jason Stefanik’s launch of <a href="https://chbooks.com/Books/N/Night-Became-Years" target="_blank">Night Became Years</a> at The Edge Gallery and Urban Art Centre. I hosted the event, which featured poet Colin Smith, musician Jason Eastwood, and artists Gabrielle Funk and Ian Johnson.<br />
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<br />Last night we had The Art of Walking participant reading. I felt opened up after and then I put beer in the hole...Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-43796478118629778462018-04-02T11:17:00.000-05:002018-05-16T11:17:57.339-05:00First day at Banff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And we have a cover for GUSH, designed by the the brilliant Meags Fitzgerald, who also contributed a comic to the anthology. </div>
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Forgive me, but: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!</div>
Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10198109.post-51265496279259516432018-03-20T23:11:00.002-05:002018-03-20T23:11:39.252-05:00Late-winter mushrooming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Investigating two fresh elm stumps in the Southwood Lands, I found this mushroom. (I think it's a last-year mushroom that was rehydrated in the melting snow...)Ariel Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14879719960202249424noreply@blogger.com0