In the grips of COVID-19 the April 5th reading for Poetry & Healing has been cancelled and replaced with a month long reveal of poems, music and meditations from poets originally scheduled to read. This is also being run as a fundraiser for SickKids Hospital so, check in throughout the month for poetry and healing and thank you to the wonderful Kate Marshall Flaherty for organization, inspiration, for her poetry and a beautiful reading of my poem, With the end unfolding around us http://poets.ca/poetry-and-healing/
January 2020: We Are Shine
Proud to be featured in Andy Verboom’s wonderful longconmag, with a long poem that reimagines The Shining as a Greek chorus of catcalls.
First New Poem Published in 2019
Proud to be published in 580Split’s Issue about the breaches in our current political climate.
From my next manuscript titled Universal Monsters, please enjoy I Am Waiting For A Terrible Sentence To Begin:
I am waiting for a terrible sentence to begin
I am waiting for permission
I am waiting for the world to empty
his war chest of ammunition
I am waiting for him to be shoved
naked onto the streets
tonguing a solitary gold tooth for Quixotic-reassurance
I am waiting for bars to fill with traders
speculating on his future
I am waiting for forest and field to reject him
for canopy and tallest corn to consent to the drones
I am waiting for no respite from silent superveillance
I am waiting for ladders to actualize and stilt-walk away
to loiter across alley-mouths like wooden gangs
all leg and tooth and grin
I am waiting for rash to rise from the brand on his buttock
waiting for a shingles belt to lick his haunch like Sticky-Fingered-Hot-Lip
I am waiting for witches
to ascend from stony riverbeds casting reparation spells
I am waiting for the lesson to dawn
to bubble up in passers-by and flood
through social mediums like body-snatcher plagues
I am waiting for this anger to form something more than outrage
I am waiving my consent
Reading Al to Al
Proud to be invited to read from Al Moritz’s collected poems, The Sparrow, to the big man himself. Kirby and kfb provide the milieu.
Conor hits the ART BAR
Great night’s poetry MCed by the dashing Jim Johnstone featuring the awesome Carmine Starnino, the engaging Puneet Dutt, and my good self in my first feature (15 minutes!) reading