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Reading at the Rivoli on November 13 at the launch of Shane Joseph’s and Brian Mullally’s new books was a lot of fun. Black Art Entertainment and Shane opened the evening with themed music about writing and writers. Shane’s songs were a pleasant ...

“Salon 3 by 3″ on October 30 at the Merchant’s of Green Coffee Café was a wonderful success. Poets Gianna Patriarca, Donna Langevin and I read poems responding to the work of artists Tina Conlon, Patsy Berton, and Grethe Jensen - who then ta...

A first foray into the video world: reading the poem "Call and Response", one of the five poems from Norway Poems, a section of my latest book of poetry The Risks of Remembrance, and one of the most interesting for me, as I explain at the beginning...

I had planned a less hectic spring than fall and winter, but the winter’s promotions of The Risks of Remembrance produced a flock of readings in tune with the first leaves and the bird’s spring migrations. I had planned a less hectic spring than...

Held every year on the 3rd week-end of July the Manitoulin Art Tour showcases a wide variety of art, this year with over 80 artists in 32 locations across the island. Art Tour displays included painting, photography, sculpture, fiber art, dream catc...

April 9 saw “Celebrating Poetry Month in the Beach”, a multi-media event at the Beach branch of Toronto Public Library that I designed, organized and publicized to mark The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Month with poetry, music and song, sculp...

Time is condensed! Three months gone by like three weeks. Jam packed weeks they’ve been (I’ve made jam, I know how much fruit is condensed in a small jar)… five readings from January 30 to March 6, as well as lots of activity with various poetry ...

The first post-launch reading of The Risks of Remembrance was on Dec 9 at the Beach Branch of the TPL. It was a multi-media happening with Valerie Nielsen, Stoney Creek poet and author of Green Light, and Heather Glerum, Toronto musician and poet. Vale...

Unbelievably it's been a month since the launch of Risks ... 30 wonderfully busy days of responding to all kinds of gratifying feedback from friends including Facebook posts, still a newish medium for me. I can't imagine what it would look like without...

THE LAUNCH OF THE RISKS OF REMEMBRANCE WAS A TEAM TRIUMPH. I am still basking in the warmth of so many friends, colleagues and Heliconian Club members who came out to help me celebrate. Without my friends and family - who have put up with many readi...

Margo Little of the Manitoulin Writer's circle tells me that Cross-pollination 2 was a huge success-more than 200 people at the opening on October 15 and more streaming in over the week-end. I am so sorry I was not able to be there, but my partner Kate...

It's hard to believe that I've been back in the city for two weeks. So much has been going on I haven't even finished unpacking. "Art with Music and Words" on September 24th was well received and we three-Jane Burns, painter and printmaker, Roger Green...

I have just taken 3 sculptures with their poems to the Gore Bay Museum on Manitoulin Island where they will be part of the Cross-pollination 2 project with partner Kate Thompson's wall collage and poem. 25 artist/writer pairs riffing on the artifact of...

"Art with Music and Words" is a mixed media concert happening on September 24 at The Toronto Heliconian Club at 8.00 p.m. I will be reading a sequence called "Norway Poems from my book The Risks of Remembrance, with Brenda Muller on cello and Jane Burn...

My new book, "The Risks of Remembrance: new poems" (Words Indeed Publishing) was released in August and was warmly welcomed at two book signings on Manitoulin Island, one at Edwards' Studios and Gallery in Kagawong on August 14, and a second at The Sou...