folio : Forty-five Ottawa poets : edited by rob mclennan,

 

 

 

 

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.

folio : Three from Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland, edited by Mark Tardi

 

from Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland (Litmus Press, 2024)
, edited by Mark Tardi

 

Mark Tardi : The Calligraphy of Listening

Maria Cyranowicz, statement and poem : translated from the Polish by Małgorzata Myk

Hanna Janczak, statement and poem : translated from the Polish by Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi

Anna Adamowicz, statement and poem : translated from the Polish by Lynn Suh

folio : Barry McKinnon (1944-2023)

 

Barry McKinnon (1944-2023)
, edited by Jeremy Stewart and Donna Kane

Jeremy Stewart : Introduction : Something – for Barry McKinnon ;

 

Hope Anderson : Tribute ; Elizabeth Bachinsky : Three poems ; bill bissett : ths xcelent prson  k.darcy taylor  was driving me away ; Marilyn Bowering : Barry McKinnon ; Lary Bremner : heart in place  out of time for barry mckinnon ; Brian Hiram Coulter : There was this kid in band ; Pierre Coupey : a few words for barry ; Justin Foster : Caledonia ; Solomon Goudsward : On the Death of Barry McKinnon ; Donna Kane : Barry here ; GP Lainsbury : Phenomenology put to work in the Poetry of Barry McKinnon ; rob mclennan : I wanted to say something ; Matt Partyka : Out of the Blind World ; Graham Pearce : No Distance – Three Poems ; Al Rempel : Anecdotes ; Clea Roberts :What can be done, as if an answer / is possible? ; George Sipos : Tribute ; Jeremy Stewart : something (postscript for Barry McKinnon ; Paul Strickland : Tribute ; Red Shuttleworth : Tribute ; Sharon Thesen : A FEW WORDS FOR BARRY MCKINNON ; Simon Thompson : Tribute ; Michael Turner : Tribute ; Fred Wah : Bundling Barry ; Tom Wayman : Tribute ; Gillian Wigmore : Tribute ;

extras: John Harris : Barry McKinnon -- We Remember ; Paul E. Nelson: Barry McKinnon in ICU ; obituary by rob mclennan ; obituary by Paul E. Nelson ; obituary by Andrew Kurjata, CBC ; from the archives -- Remembering Barry McKinnon (1944-2023) by Cecil Giscombe, The Capilano Review ; Barry McKinnon's 2022 Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] interview ; Barry McKinnon's website ; other tributes (from Barry's website ;

photos of Barry McKinnon throughout provided by Joy McKinnon ;
[except for photos provided by Simon Thompson + rob mclennan,

folio : (further) short takes on the prose poem

 

 

 

Gary Barwin ; Jay Besemer ; Heather Cadsby ; Maxine Chernoff ; kevin mcpherson eckhoff ; Anna Gurton-Wachter ; Jason Heroux ; Shane Kowalski ; Aaron Kreuter ; Alex Leslie ; Nate Logan ; IAN MARTIN ; Angelo Mao ; Sarah Moses ; Lori Anderson Moseman ; Gillian Parrish and Gene Pfeiffer ; Devon Rae ; Eléna Rivera ; Gillian Sze ; Vik Shirley ; Evan Williams ; Kim Fahner, Margo LaPierre, and Jérôme Melançon, Extroverted review: the book of smaller, by rob mclennan ; prior folio: twenty-eight short takes on the prose poem (March 2022) ; lovingly edited and compiled by rob mclennan,