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I’m having one of those convergence moments- you know, when everything you read, see, talk about, dream connects in some serendipitous way? what’s truly exciting about this is that it means that my brain has been freed up to play a bit. it was rusty at first, but i’m warming up, baby! and god, it [...]

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I didn’t go home from This Ain’t The Rosedale Library empty handed. I picked up The Language of Inquiry, a collection of meditations by Lyn Hejinian on potery and poetics, mostly previously published pieces. A LOT to digest here. A lot on and about and around and beside stein. And a lot of helpful stuff [...]

fabulous chat with a.raw yesterday about podcast possibilities, made even more fabulous by sitting at Kalendar, lazily sipping a concoction dreamt up by one of their bartenders called, “the Jag.” The main ingredients were chartreuse and a mysterious entity known as “lemon myrtle,” which the interner tells me is a herb indigenous to australia, and [...]

one of the highlights of skooled for me was rock school, where i got to strap on a bass for the first time and kick it old school. (best compliment ever: one of the crew said there were shades of iggy pop in my performance.) part of our transformation from teachers into rockers was accomplished [...]

I adore Eileen Myles. I suspect that most people who hear her for the first time are likewise smitten. She read from a long prose work, not yet published, anecdotal musings about a life of poetry, and the opening chapter told of her hard crush on an English professor in college, one of those profs [...]

Planet AUTHORity – AUTHOR INTERVIEWS: “Myles: I bumped into a little zen in high school. It was in the air then, J.D. Salinger, etc. It’s such a part of ’60s non-academic poetry. And I began some sitting about two years ago–I haven’t been doing it all lately, but that really gave me a sense of [...]

alejandro escovedo’s show at the el mo on wednesday night was so good, it relieved the sting of having to miss both calexico and wilco last week. it felt like old home week at the el mo- everyone from the toronto alt country scene was there. seeing yvonne matsel and ted footman in the room [...]

quite a substantial crowd gathered at value village on wednesday night to hear lisa even-the-village-voice-thinks-she’s-cool robertson read from the office for soft architecture. everyone there was delighted- staff, shoppers, poets… it was hard to tell who came for the shopping and who came for the poetry. everyone i interviewed said they came for both. [...]