sign up for our VERSeFest/VERSe Ottawa email list!

hey! did you know that VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival now has an email list you can sign up for? You can do all of that here, if such appeals. We're aiming for monthly posts (at most), with information on upcoming readings, possible workshops and what our two Poets Laureate have been doing or will be doing, also. We're also starting to think about our Spring 2026 festival (our sixteenth year!), so that's pretty exciting, don't you think?

You probably already know, separately, about my weekly "Tuesday poem" email list, which offers a new weekly poem (more than six hundred poets and poems offered to date), which also includes the occasional update around my own activity. as well as above/ground press, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], the ottawa small press book fair, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, the monthly SPOTLIGHT series, Chaudiere Books, my clever substack, the above/ground press substack, the (ottawa) small press almanac, etcetera. There's an awful lot to keep track of, honestly.