new poems, a chapbook and prompt and a short story,

An update, to keep you in the loop (of course): I've poems from the manuscript "Fair bodies of unseen prose" over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (as part of a folio of Ottawa poets) and delicate emissions zine; a poem from my "dream logic" manuscript sits as a prompt via Benjamin Niespodziany's Sunday poem and prompt substack, and there was even a chapbook from that particular work-in-progress recently through above/ground press; and I've a short story up at The Temz Review. I get quoted in this article over at Apartment613 about this week's VERSeFest. And apparently my spring poetry title with Caitlin is anticipated by the CBC! So, that's cool.

Profile of Frances Boyle, with a few questions

My profile of Ottawa poet Frances Boyle, with a few questions, is now up at Open Book: Ontario. Might we see you at the launch of her first poetry collection, Light-carved Passages (BuschekBooks) (which she also discussed recently on CBC Radio) tomorrow night at the RailRoad Reading Series?

I've been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize!

For the first time, I've been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, for a selection of poems from the manuscript-in-progress, "household items." I'm in good company, too, alongside thirty-five others, including Stephanie Bolster, Sandy Pool (twice!), Bren Simmers, Deanna Young (twice!) and Alison Calder. Apparently the shortlist is announced on September 17, and the winner a week later. Wouldn't that be the finest wedding present ever?

Phyllis Webb documentary by Robert McTavish on CBC Radio's IDEAS, May 12, 2011;

A profile of Canada's great poet and the co-creator of the program IDEAS!
Phyllis Webb: The Art of Ideas on IDEAS on CBC Radio, 9pm Thursday, May 12th.

She has spent a lifetime asking questions. Her body of work was never satisfied with the answers. Poet, anarchist, intellectual, former radio producer, and co-creator of the program IDEAS, we honour Phyllis Webb in this documentary by Robert McTavish.

Robert McTavish has done a number of radio and film documentaries, including What to Make of it All? The life and poetry of John Newlove (2006). He later edited the collection A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove (Chaudiere Books 2007 with an afterword by Jeff Derksen) which critic Steve Noyes described as "probably the best summation of John Newlove's inimitable poems that we are likely to get" and is currently producing and directing his fourth film, The Line Has Shattered, on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference.