GUSH reviewed in Herizons!

So GUSH was reviewed in Herizons by Courtney Dickson. Yaaaaay! It's so lovely to see some of these reviews coming in...

PBN: Katherena Vermette

From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of Prairie books NOW.

PBN: Lucas Crawford

From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of Prairie books NOW.

PBN: Sue Goyette

From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of Prairie books NOW.

GUSH profiled in PBN!

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Kyla Neufeld interviewed Tanis MacDonald about GUSH for the spring/summer 2018 issue of Prairie Books NOW.

PBN: Brenda Schmidt

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From the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Prairie books NOW.

PBN: Ella Zeltserman

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From the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Prairie books NOW.

Heckling

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I always force audiences to threaten/heckle me, just to keep things interesting. (From last night’s NPM in the WFP 2018 event at McNally's.)

GUSHed

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And GUSH is off to the printers!!! Yaaaaaay! Go grateful to Frontenac House, Tanis MacDonald + Rosanna Deerchild. And, of course, ALL the contributors!

Launching NPM in the WFP 2018!

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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.

I made terrible jokes. I said some strange things. But it didn't matter. It was a great night despite me.

I do so love this project, even it is sort of odd.

My thanks to Jason for co-editing and John Toews for organizing/hosting the event.

Big old elms

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Walked down Palmerston again today, entranced by the big old elms...

Halfway Tree

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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.

NPM in the 2018: PRINTED!

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So here are the two pages of NPM poems that ran in yesterday's Winnipeg Free Press. I'm so pleased with the third edition of this project and grateful for co-editor Jason Stefanik and 49.8 editor Scott Gibbons as well as designer Leesa Dahl and photographer Michael Deal.

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.

See you 7pm on April 30 at McNally's for the launch of the 2018 NPM in the WFP project!

Jason Stefanik's Night Became Years

From Jason Stefanik’s launch of Night Became Years 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.

So nice to see Jason launched!

The Art of Walking participant reading

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Last night we had The Art of Walking participant reading. I felt opened up after and then I put beer in the hole...

First day at Banff

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Today is my first full day at the Banff Centre, taking part in The Art of Walking program. Time to get to work!

GUSHing!

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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. 

Forgive me, but: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Late-winter mushrooming

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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...)

NPM in the WFP 2018

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Poetry In Voice

Oh that was so much fun!

I was one of three jurors of the Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie Manitoba English Stream Team Regionals at Kildonan East School, with the winners from Glenlawn Collegiate.