Poems, Prose, Interviews, Asphalt Poetry & More

RECENT POETRY:

Looking in the Mirror I Saw, Queen’s Quarterly, 2024

Prayer for the Day, 2nd place in the 2023 literary competition, Freefall Magazine

Cicadas, Queen’s Quarterly, 2023

Thanks: A Cento, ARC poetry Magazine, 2022

Bukowski, Literary Review of Canada, 2022

The Party Grain Magazine, 2022

PROSE:

My Hat & Red, The New Quarterly, 2023

The Sad Men and Me, The New Quarterly, 2023

The Myelin Sheath, in The New Quarterly, 2022

On Prescribing Poems for the Sick, the Dying, the Grief-Stricken, prose, Lit Hub, 2016

VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, & MORE

Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, BC hosts a reading by Ronna Bloom in a packed house, 2024

Ronna reads from A Possible Trust in the online series Poetry Lit, broadcasting from Scotland and Utrecht, 2024

A brief profile of Ronna Bloom at Poetry in Canada, 2022

Ronna edits her manuscript, 21 seconds, 2021

Q & A with Ronna Bloom: Poetry in Community in Spacing Magazine, 2021

In 2018, PLANT Architects painted the poem “The City” 30 metres wide on King Street in Toronto. Here’s what happened.

Don’t Be Superficial Cause We’ll Soon Find Out, a video by Happie Micha Edwards and David George Thomas Shipley, based on the poem written for Mr. Shipley at The Spontaneous Poetry Booth, BRAVE: A Festival of Risk and Failure, Harbourfront 2018.

Meet Ronna Bloom, 3 minute video, 2018

The Poet is In: Ronna Bloom and Rx for Poetry, An interview with Susan Gillis, Concrete & River, 2017

Poetry Goes to Work: What Can Poetry Do in the World? 9 minute video, 2014

Grief without Fantasy, 1 minute video by Midi Onodera, 2012

In 2011, I interviewed the legendary poet, John Giorno at the Words Aloud Festival in Own Sound.