poems, essays, interviews, chapbooks + upcoming readings: Toronto, Kingston, Calgary etc;

In case you hadn't seen, I was interviewed recently by Ivy Grimes, for her clever substack. She’s interviewed a whole ton of folk over there, so be sure to check out her archives. And you saw that Stan Rogal interviewed me for periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, and Cara Waterfall interviewed me for her substack as well, yes? I had a recent poem up at Amsterdam Review, and a section of “the green notebook” up at Annulet, with another section up recently at Eunoia Review. Did you see all the Canadian books I recommended recently over at 49th Shelf? I also have a poem in Allium, A Journal of Poetry and Prose. My new short story collection, On Beauty, was also featured not long ago over at the Creative Writing at Leicester site. I should probably be sending more work out, but there’s been less of that lately, between my attentions around the works-in-progress “the green notebook” and “the genealogy book.” I’m hoping once at least one of those projects is off my plate I can start focusing again on poems again, as well as that novel-in-progress I keep referencing (some of which furthers threads from On Beauty, by the way). I also keep forgetting to tell you about chapbooks I've had out recently, including Retreat journal: (Montreal: Turret House Press, 2024), : condition report (Toronto: Gap Riot Press, 2024) and the great silence of the poetic line (Banff: No Press, 2024). Support those presses! Order things! Although if you were following either my enormously clever substack or my ongoing Patreon, you would have already known about these items (it is a lot to update all of these systems, you know).

Oh, and did you hear I’m going to be interviewed by Alan Neal for CBC Radio Ottawa’s All In A Day on Tuesday afternoon? We’re taping around 2pm due to my schedule collecting our wee monsters from school, so I don’t know yet what time my segment will air. The show runs from 3-6pm EDT, so you can attempt to catch live, or check the website after to catch it recorded.

Christine is reading in Toronto on Monday night, as part of the Book*hug Press launch, and in Hamilton on Thursday, November 7, as part of a further Book*hug launch, which has me a few days solo with our young ladies, which is fine. I’m also heading out Toronto way on Friday morning, as Christine and I will meet up for an event I’m part of on Dundas Street West on Friday, November 8, reading to help launch a small handful of new letterpress items published by someone editions (including something of mine) (I’ll also have a handful of copies of my short story collection on hand, if you want a copy). Christine even has a clever graphic she made up with all of her events, some of which I’m part of, even. Oh, and Christine and I read in Kingston on Sunday, November 17 with Alison Chisholm at the Drift/Line Series, which I’m looking forward to, lovingly hosted by poet Wanda Praamsma. Do you know her work?

And then there's our reading later this month in Calgary, also, via Single Onion, November 21. There are also plans afoot for Christine and I to read in Vancouver in February, but nothing yet is confirmed.