1. The instructor for my magazine writing course is pushing me (and the rest of my classmates) to pitch ideas to magazines. She really wants us to succeed, and I can’t help but want to do a very good job for her. It’s nice to be taught by someone so passionate and so willing to [...]
Categories: author's notes, notions and sundries
My summer has begun. Summers are usually a whirlwind of gorgeous insanity. I try to pack as much activity as possible into the months when everything happens in my city. When outside is the only place I want to be. It’s my time to collect experiences. And I have this habit of burning myself out. [...]
Categories: author's notes
I haven’t written as myself in a while. Sometimes I need to be reminded of my own voice.
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Edmonton’s incoming Poet Laureate is none other than hip-hop artist Roland Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon. His music captures Edmonton in ways that you wouldn’t see at first glance, and he seems to intend to re-define the position of [...]
Categories: author's notes
I really truly try to read poems more often than I do. I buy poetry collections. I carry these collections in my purse in case I might find myself waiting somewhere alone for more than thirty seconds. Sometimes. Not always. But I have them. And I reach for them. And then I get distracted by [...]
Categories: author's notes, notions and sundries
Every year, poets.org celebrates poetry for a month. So I’m starting it off this way.
Walt Whitman caught me accidentally. I found a copy of Leaves of Grass and other collected poems in the bookstore bargain bin about nine years ago. I might have paid $4 for the cloth-bound, embossed volume that I bought [...]
Categories: author's notes, bookworming
