I’m not really tumblring right now. I think I have misused this space, anyway - there aren’t enough hazy, slightly unsettling photos here, I think.
You can follow/participate in my new project, GET ME OUT OF HERE, at http://www.getmeoutofhere-poems.tumblr.com.
xo, sachi.
Here’s the (poetry!) event I’m in at the Vancouver International Writers Festival, with Sharon Thesen, Fanny Howe, Martin Espada, John Glenday, and Olive Senior.
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Waterfront Theatre
$17 / $8.50 for student groups.
“I can’t mess with someone else’s writing!” I exclaimed. (That’s the G-rated version.) I tried again, highlighting a word, then two, then clicking outside the box and closing the tab.
I’m facilitating a course at the Toronto New School of Writing this fall!
In this six-week course designed for emerging writers interested in interrogating formal strategies and discussing contemporary poetry, participants will put poems through the formal grinder. What are the strategies of “traditional” forms like the sonnet, the glosa, the lipogram? How can we make form work for – or against – the poem? Where do the Formalist and Experimental poem meet? Through readings, discussions, and their own writing, participants will explore formal constraints both historical and contemporary to shake up your ideas about what formal writing is.
"Reforming Form: Rethinking Formal Strategies of Poetry | The Toronto New School of Writing
From Oana Avasilichioaei at Jacket2
From Desiree Ossandon at Canada Arts Connect
From rob mclennan
From the 75+ poets who have contributed
I’m participating in this amazing poetry conference in October. So excited.
A collaborative poetry project, initiated by me!
I’m teaching a poetry workshop at U of T SCS this Fall. Sign up and talk politicized poetries with me!
Not only will there be no clean-up anytime soon, except perhaps for the crude shoving of homes, boats, towns, schools, lives, to the side of the road, and the diligent room-by-room mud and debris removal of schools and shelters but it will clearly take years and years and yes, years
