Given our sixteenth annual VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival begins tomorrow night, I thought this would be a good opportunity to highlight what some of the Ottawa poets are doing these days, with a folio featuring new work by forty-five poets currently working across Ottawa and the immediate region.
Either way, we will see you at the festival this week, I presume? If you aren't able to make events in-person, we are attempting to livestream (via pay-what-you-can donation) as much of the festival as possible. Check out the website for information.
the folio includes work by :
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews : Cameron Anstee : Allison Armstrong : John Baglow : Manahil Bandukwala : Dessa Bayrock : Frances Boyle : Liam Burke : Ellen Chang-Richardson : Jason Christie : Lana Crossman : David Currie : Michelle Desbarats : AJ Dolman : Rhonda Douglas : nina jane drystek : Amanda Earl : Tamsyn Farr : Sanita Fejzić : Cara Goodwin : Adele Graf : Vera Hadzic : Marilyn Irwin : Sarah Kabamba : Anita Lahey : Ben Ladouceur : Margo LaPierre : Michael Lithgow : rob mclennan : Christian McPherson : IAN MARTIN : Pamela Mosher : David O'Meara : Salem Paige : Pearl Pirie : Monty Reid : Leslie Roach : Helen Robertson : Tazi Rodrigues : Kevin Shaw : Mahaila Smith : DS Stymeist : Chris Turnbull (and Nico Vassilakis) : Jean Van Loon : Grant Wilkins
for further projects on Ottawa writers and writing, check out: the ongoing "six questions series," featuring more than two hundred interviews online with writers either currently or formerly based in Ottawa; my ongoing "bibliography of ottawa literary magazines and presses," featuring links and even interviews with editors/publishers of shuttered presses; and the series of "Arc Walks" I conducted back in 2018, the full texts (with photos from the day and plenty of links) of literary walks I curated in four different Ottawa neighbourhoods, solicited by Arc Poetry Magazine.
