What happens when you read a poem that hits the spot? What can writing offer? A conversation on the power of poetry. Listen here.
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Venice Journals is an excerpt of a manuscript in progress, of poems and photographs. It was published in May 2020 just as Venice was stepping out of quarantine. I share it with much respect for that wounded and wondrous city.
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A new poem, “The Future,” written for The Litter I See Project.
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I threw out 10 years of journals. Threw them in the blue bin. They’d been sitting in two carboard boxes in my garage for 16 years and so without even looking, I tipped them out. Then I took a picture and posted it on instagram and FB. People went bananas.
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I’m proud to present the film TRAVEL made by Governor General’s Award winning artist Midi Onodera. Based on an excerpt of my poem of the same name published by Pedlar Press in Personal Effects.
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Last year at this time, PLANT Architects painted my poem, The City, 30 meters long on King Street in Toronto. This was part of the King Street Pilot project and always meant to be temporary. PLANT recently sent out a newsletter showing the poem now and the poem when freshly painted. I could not help but reflect the impact of the city on The City. Have a look.
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Mary Oliver died a few weeks ago. She wrote about fish, birds, trees, owls, snakes, dogs in a kind of ecstatic way. She said, “Ten times a day something happens to me – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell."
I have brought her poems into workshops since I started this work in 2008. Students, teachers, therapists, doctors, chronic pain suffers, meditators, and ordinary folks I know have her words on their walls, on tattoos, in their mouths.
The other night, I dreamt the landlord asked me to go up to the attic to plug the holes in the corners because there were mice.