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Mark your Calendars for the Ottawa and Toronto Anansi Bashes

Come celebrate National Poetry Month in Ottawa and Toronto by attending an Anansi Bash! Ottawa, April 16 Ottawa Writers Festival: Anansi Poetry Bash7:00pm, Wednesday April 16, 2025St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa FeaturingClémence Dumas-Côté’s The Seated Woman Farah Ghafoor’s Shadow PriceA.F. Moritz’s Great Silent Ballad Karen Solie’s Wellwater REGISTER FOR THIS

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Launch of Reibetanz’s Everyday Light in Toronto

Please join me in celebrating the launch of John Reibetanz’s newest book of poems, Everyday Light (Aelous, 2025). Reibetanz’s collection presents poetic responses to Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century. Reading from its pages will be Reibetanz’s friends and fellow poets, including myself, Maureen Scott Harris, Jeffery Donaldson, Maureen Hynes, and Ricardo Sternberg. The Master

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Victoria Fellows Book Launch

Come join me for another celebration of Great Silent Ballad! On Monday, January 7, 2025, I will take part in the Victoria Fellows Book Launch at Alumni Hall, 95 Charles Street West, on the Victoria College campus, from 4-6pm. I will read from Great Silent Ballad, alongside fellow members and emeriti of the college who

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New Poem in Juniper

I have a new poem in Juniper! Juniper is an online poetry journal founded in 2017 by Lisa Young which publishes 3 times a year: February, June, and October. According to the editorial statement, the journal “seeks poems that bring the reader back to themselves and leave them with a deeper understanding of the world(s)

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Sound of Hungry Animals is Available Once More from Rufus Books

Wonderful news! After a hiatus of several years, independent small press Rufus Books has returned to the publishing scene in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Having renewed their presence online, the publisher has begun to list available fine-press poetry and fiction chapbooks from its archives. My chapbook, Sound of Hungry Animals, originally published in

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The Civilizing Discourse

Evan Jones’ book of interviews with Canadian Poets, The Civilizing Discourse, is now in print with Véhicule Press. You’ll find my interview in chapter 8 of the new book: “A.F. Moritz, In Which The Journey Is A Dream.” Here’s what the publisher has to say about The Civilizing Discourse: “If I can impart one final

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Laurier Gallery Reading

It’s time for a Sunday Salon at the Laurier Gallery! Join me on March 24, 2024, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at Laurier Gallery, 113 Jefferson Avenue, Toronto, M6K 3E4. This Sunday’s Salon will be hosted by poets George Elliott Clarke and Giovanna Riccio. Come view the photography of Leah den Bok. Then, stay for

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“Marigold” Album & Video

Over the past few years, James Rolfe has been at work setting lines from my book, The Garden, to music. Commissioned by George Elliot Clarke, the selected verses, now known as “Marigold,” were first performed by James Rolfe and Juliet palmer at the Seventh Edition of Clarke’s poetry series, Five Poets Breaking into Song, hosted

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Wound Turned to Light

Please join me at Toronto’s Heliconian Club, 35 Hazleton Avenue on the evening of Friday, October 13 or Saturday, October 14, 2023 for Confluence Concerts: Wound Turned to Light. Starting with a pre-show chat at 6:45 p.m., we will celebrate the launch of the CD of composer James Rolfe’s beautiful settings of the work of a

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Active History: Inheriting Her Life, Toronto’s Poet Laureate Remembers Emma Goldman

Active History has published an article about my recent appearance at the Emma Goldman symposium in Toronto and the poem I wrote, “Inheriting Your Life: Homage to Emma Goldman,” for the event. Do read it now! Inheriting Her Life: Toronto’s Poet Laureate Remembers Emma Goldman. Here’s the video of my reading: And here’s the text

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Spring Minstrels and Bards

Join me on Tuesday, April 25th at 5:45 pm, in the Southern Cross Lounge at the Tranzac Club in Toronto for Minstrels and Bards. Hosted by Brenda Clews, Minstrels and Bards is a quarterly Soirée celebrating writing and music. For Spring 2023, Beatriz Hausner and I will be the featured poets, along with featured musicians

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Acta Victoriana Launch, 2023

Please join me for the launch of Acta Victoriana. On Friday, April 14th, 2023, Acta Victoriana will celebrate its first in-person launch since 2019! The editors look forward to welcoming you to the Cat’s Eye for a very literary evening of readings, refreshments, and meeting their wonderful literary journal contributors and editors from the past

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