(1) Creating Space conference with Nancy Huggett, Conyer Clayton, and Jim Johnstone. Only conference attendees, not open to public. Sadness!
(2) HAPPINESS! PLEASE COME! OPEN TO ALL! Reading with Jim Johnstone, Susan Atkinson, Amanda Earl, and Chris Johnson! 5 PM, 361 Elgin Street, April 19.
Lecture, poetry reading, and workshop, each part including work by other Canadian poets on neurodiversity and disability. Spreading the good news. SCRANTON! I can go back to Cooper’s Seafood House and worship at The Office shrine . . .
Click here for the piece by Luke Beirne.
Part of the permatour! Surprising sales at the Albion last Tuesday night, great crowd. Thanks to River Street for running a great ship. And people came from work, NO WAY, that’s a feat rarely accomplished. With thanks to those friends especially.
I’ve recuperated from the book tour and writing residency. Photos from London, Toronto, Montreal, QC, Fredericton, Saint John, and North Tryon.
Maybe see you there?
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My hybrid verse novel concerning Willard, an intellectually disabled man, and a white-tailed buck, set at the dawn of the Cold War in southwestern New Brunswick. Damn, Julie Scriver does beautiful work.
I now have an opportunity to get more American eyes on Canadian poetry. Hooray! The first instalment of my review roundup running every 3 months appears today here. And it’s on the front page!
I have a new article out in Image on Spencer Reese. Willard (an intellectually disabled man left behind in the expropriated land that would become CFB Gagetown), a character from my upcoming book The Reign with Goose Lane Editions , would say MOOOOOOON. How did they know – Appalachians, moon? My thanks to Nick Ripatrazone – check out his The Habit of Poetry, it rules, I learned so much.
Shane Neilson 