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In case you hadn't caught, The Factory Lecture Series returns to VERSeFest this year, with lectures by Manchester poet Lydia Unsworth and Brooklyn, New York poet Nada Gordon, on Sunday, March 29! A free event! Both poets also read that same evening alongside Jumoke Verissimo! Check out the full schedule and ticket information for this year's sixteenth annual VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival (with some events, as we're able, live-streamed in a pay-what-you-can donation, for those unable to make in-person). Also, there are a bunch of interviews with poets coming to this year's festival up at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, including with Lydia Unsworth, Nada Gordon, Gwen Aube, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Paul Vermeersch, Hajer Mirwali and Isabella Wang--and more to come next week!
Celebrated as one of America’s greatest living poets, Alice Notley is the author of over forty books of poetry and critical prose. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious literary awards, including the Griffin International Poetry Prize for her book Disobedience in 2002. Mysteries of Small Houses was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999. A new chapbook, produced by above/ground press for her upcoming appearance at Ottawa's VERSeFest, announces next week.
Entitled “Remember Before You Were Born,” Notley’s talk blends poetry with prose, and is concerned with her attempts to remember the time before her birth, as well as her existence as an infant, in order to invite that memory/knowledge into her present life as a poet.
This free public lecture will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, March 21 in the Minto CASE Building at Carleton University, room 5050. Reception and book signing to follow. Parking Pay & Display lots P1, P2, and P9.
Talks on poetry for the Ottawa Independent Writers organization at Library and Archives Canada on April 26, 2012 at 7pm, Wellington St, room 156. Ottawa poets, editors and bloggers Pearl Pirie and rob mclennan do an informal talk, and answer questions on writing and publishing contemporary poetry, the rivet and pivots: what holds it together and makes it spin? what makes it poetry? what does poetry do differently from prose? what's out there? how to find the poetry you will like and where. looking at styles and ideas in the literary dialogue. there are poetic forms but no poetic formulas. there are however, better and worse applications of ideas.
(don't worry--we'll go straight to the ottawa international writers festival straight after,
