Boredom Fighters
December 9, 2008
Launching Boredom Fighters in Calgary!
This past October Tightrope Books published an anthology of graphic poetry. They titled this collection Boredom Fighters. Some of the contributors live in Calgary. Others like to visit Calgary.
These graphic poets would like to invite any and everyone to join them in launching this anthology. The evening will begin with a DIY visual poetry make-fest with some materials provided, followed by spontaneous readings by spontaneous authors. The evening will conclude with short, and probably not-so-spontaneous, readings by derek beaulieu (the wonder-letter-muffin), Christian Bök (the sound virus), Jonathan Ball (the jerk), Jake Kennedy (the asshole) and kevin mcpherson eckhoff (the massive but brainless head).
Pages on Kensington
13th of December @ 7pm
Free words, foods & hurts
Congratulations Saleema!
December 2, 2008
My friend Saleema Nawaz won the Journey Prize! I guess good things DO happen to nice people. Her first book Mother Superior is also published by another friend, Melanie Little at Freehand Books. Both the book and the press are worth checking out. Saleema has also started a weblog which has spurred me, along with complaints by the few readers of my own blog, to reconsider thje nature of my own blogging. (And that’s right… I still say “weblog” and put the hyphen in “e-mail.”) I expect to settle on some sort of decision regarding blogging in general after I finish my work for the week.
