In which I define the art and give valuable pointers. Or just ramble about in my weird head ;)

For the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation a poem from Ruffo’s 2019 book out from Wolsak & Wynn called Treaty#. Recite Indigenous works today and whenever you can.

From her 2010 collection of six long poems called Heavenly Questions. Stunning elegy. And yes I have a cold.

It’s all about poetry, the poem. Sometimes I don’t want to talk. I just want to recite. This poem is majestic and from 1923.

I ramble. I talk about my cat. I wonder why I wrote some things that seemed meaningful at the time. It’s disorder about order! Enjoy.

And I talk of Roethke and defamiliarization and my headache too.

I forgot to say the Christakos book came out in 2021 from Palimpsest Press. Marrow review out next week. And here she “reads” with Lilburn from 1994. After a quote on looking. And an addendum on muses. Seeing is all.

What’s the difference between a muse and inspirations? Why have I had male muses? Are muses essential or detrimental? Find out here ;)

I speak of the resistance to poetry and how line breaks are part of this and also talk about love.

With a notion about a philanthropy of infrastructure rather than fame, a quote from Anne Waldman and a draft of a poem giving courage if not hope ;)