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Archive for June, 2019
Frank Scott Poetry Day Line-up Announced
June 28, 2019Frank Scott Poetry Day Evening Reading and 120th Birthday Celebration
June 28, 2019
Evening Reading and Birthday Celebration
7:15 PM, Thursday August 1, 2019
Greene Centre, 1090 Greene Ave. Westmount, QC
COST: $10
To reserve, email publicpoetry@gmail.com
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George Elliott Clarke poetry workshop
June 28, 2019Great Scott!
Writing Political (ly Conscious) Poetry
with George Elliott Clarke
former Poet laureate of Canada
- Photo by Maguy Métellus
“I will introduce participants to ways of generating ideas and images to address the political (conscious and/or unconscious!).
All that aside, it’ll be good for poets/writers generally.”
George Elliott Clarke Workshop
4 PM – 5:30 PM Thursday, August 1, Greene Centre, 1090 Greene Avenue, Westmount.
To register and pay for this workshop, send an email to publicpoetry@gmail.com
George Elliott Clarke is the Inaugural EJ Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-2017) and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Seymour Mayne Word Sonnet Workshop
June 28, 2019More than Your Baking Class,
an Active Workshop in Writing Word Sonnets
with Seymour Mayne
Open to all, including master bakers, chefs, cooks, and mavens of cuisine!
[Registration details below]
Forget
about
herbs,
try
verbs!
Set
aside
flour,
bake
up
poetry
with
word
power.
Try your hand at literary composition, writing some spontaneous word sonnets with encouragement from Seymour Mayne, master word sonneteer whose publications in the sub-genre have received much positive international attention.
The word sonnet is a new variation of the traditional form, fourteen lines long, but with only one word set for each verse. Aficionados will enjoy the terse expression of the word sonnet as they recall F.R. Scott’s consummate handling of concise and playful diction in the service of landscape description and also satire.
Why has the word sonnet caught the eye of so many practising Canadian poets? What is it about the word sonnet that makes it so contemporary a form? How can the word sonnet be used in the teaching and appreciation of poetry? Can it be that it fills a need for succinct utterance in a time of public and electronic surfeit of words? Participants will be encouraged to compose spontaneous word sonnets in a stimulating workshop forum. Bring pens and paper or any digital device that will be an inducement to your hidden creativity.
Seymour Mayne is the author, editor, or translator of more than seventy books. His writings have been translated into many languages. His latest collections of poetry and short fiction include the bilingual Ricochet: Word Sonnets/Sonnets d’un mot, The Old Blue Couch and Other Stories, and Cusp, a selection of new word sonnets, published to mark fifty years since his first collection appeared in Montreal.
As the leading international innovator of the word sonnet, he has given readings and lectured widely on this unique new ‘miniature’ form.
Seymour Mayne Word Sonnet Workshop
2 PM – 3:30 PM Thursday, August 1, Greene Centre, 1090 Greene Avenue, Westmount.
To register and pay for this workshop, send an email to publicpoetry@gmail.com
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Letter to Premier François Legault
June 19, 2019
© 2019 Christinne Muschi
June 19, 2019
My dear Premier François Legault,
As a Quebec resident, I am deeply concerned that you fail to understand the perspective of those people who will be harmed by the Secularism law.
Let me step back. I belong to no religion, I practice no religion. I rejected religion more than 40 years ago. However, I respect other peoples’ rights to practice religion so long as they do no harm to others.
If a doctor at a public hospital is wearing a kippah, it should not bother Quebecers because I believe most Quebecers desire respect and show respect for others. If an engineer is wearing a turban, I only care that they ensure a structure is safe. Period.
I have come before many judges in my day, and none wore any religious symbols. Needless to say, they often made errors, but not because of their religious affiliations. Religion played no part in their decision making.
Quebec’s Secularism law denies Quebecers the opportunity to make this place a great place to live. Why would you want to deny religious persons, who wear small articles on their bodies, an opportunity to contribute to this place? They might enhance Quebec, if you give them the chance.
Alas, it appears that you do not want to give them opportunity in the public service. It appears that you want them to be denied equal opportunity in Quebec.
It makes little sense to me. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you at your convenience.
Until then,
Jack J. Locke
My poems/songs to debut July 6 in Vanc.
June 5, 2019Yahoo!!
Thanks to Art Song Lab, Michael and Alison, and thanks to composers Dubravko Pajalic and Kelly Krebs, two of my poems put to music will hit the stage in Vancouver on July 6.
I would be remiss if I did not mention advance thanks to baritone Steven Bélanger and pianist Corey Hamm who will put some final touches to the works. There, I am not remiss.
My two poems are: I Enter Into Debt and I Am A Cowboy From Hat To Boot.
The concert will be held at 7:30 PM, Saturday July 6, 2019, at Pyatt Hall, VSO School, 843 Seymour St., Vancouver. Can’t wait!
,
Lokshtanov 