September 6, 2024 marks the release date of D.D. Jackson’s “Poetry Project,” featuring the work of poets Ayesha Chatterjee, George Elliott Clarke, Luciano Iacobelli, Irving Layton, Micheline Maylor, Bruce Meyer, A.F. Moritz, Giovanna Riccio, Libby Scheer, Yin Xioyuan and Choucri Paul Zemokhol, set to music by D.D. Jackson, and performed by instrumentalists D.D. Jackson, Rich […]
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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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Register now and join me on Saturday, October 1st, at 3pm, in celebrating the launch of these Gordon Hill Press audiobooks, including all their poetry titles up until this year: Roxanna Bennett’s “unmeaningable” Tom Prime / Gary Barwin’s “A Cemetery for Holes” Danny Jacobs’ “Sourcebooks for Our Drawings” Mike Chaulk’s “Night Lunch” Amy LeBlanc’s “I
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REGISTER FOR THE FREE ZOOM NOW VIA EVENTBRITE!! Please join me for the next iteration of Five Poets Breaking into Song, a zoom event hosted by George Elliott Clarke, featuring the work of Al Moritz, Micheline Maylor, and Bruce Meyer, as well as the posthumous work of Irving Layton and Libby Scheier. Each poet (or
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Catch me on the CBC Ideas podcast with Nahlah Ayed, “No Feeling is Final, the Wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke.” The podcast aired on May 13, 2021. And it was followed by a feature by Pauline Holdsworth on CBC Radio online, “Live the Questions Now: Reading Rilke in a Time of Uncertainty and Grief.” Listen
For National Poetry Month, I thought I’d provide you with my hour-long interview with David O’Meara from a few months back for the Ottawa International Writers Festival, in partnership with VerseFest. I’ve also added this to the Audio/Video portion of my website! Enjoy!
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In my role as Toronto’s Poet Laureate, the editors of The Star asked me to read a selection of Haiku composed by Star readers in the wake of the U.S. Presidential Election. Here’s a link to the article as it appeared in The Star on November 4, 2020: U.S. election haiku? We asked and you
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Moritz’s sensibility is unique: melancholic, intellectual, comic, erotic, pitying . . . The emotional content of Moritz’s work is so abundant and accessible that the reader is never lost. National Post Join me on Sunday, November 8, at 2:00, for an online event co-sponsored by The Ottawa International Writers Festival & Versefest2020. I will be
As part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors, I am pleased to introduce you to a new video installation created by the Toronto Writers Collective. The Toronto Writers Collective (TWC) empowers the voices and illuminates the undiscovered strength in Toronto’s most vulnerable and disenfranchised communities. Together, we worked to create a special video installation
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The Winnipeg International Writers Festival has taken their annual Thin Air Festival and made it into an interactive online experience. I am proud to be a participant in this year’s #ThinAir2020. This rich experience will be available and active online from September 20 to October 12, 2020. Go to Thin Air to register for free.
I am pleased to appear as the inaugural guest on the Different Boat, Same Storm Podcast. DBSS was created by Abhayjeet Singh Sachal, Atharv Agrawal and Eli Meadow Ramraj to cultivate empathy amidst the Covid-19 crisis. In this premiere episode, I spent upwards of 45 minutes talking with Abhay, Atharv, and Eli about “Poetry, Song,
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Towards the end of National Poetry Month, I had the pleasure of speaking with Tom Power of CBC Radio’s Q about my poem “Thoughts in Time of Plague.” CLICK HERE to read about and listen to the interview: Here’s a hard link: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/tuesday-april-28-2020-avril-lavigne-a-f-moritz-and-more-1.5547890/a-f-moritz-reads-his-poem-thoughts-in-time-of-plague-1.5547894 You can also listen to the interview here: CBC Q also posted
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I am thrilled and honoured that Kirby of knife|fork|book chose to read “Names of Birds” from my new collection, As Far As You Know, as part of his Bedtime Poems Series on social media during National Poetry Month. I believe he’s carrying on the series for the foreseeable future, perhaps as an effort to shake
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Today, April 21, 2020, I am the featured reader on Poetry & Healing. You can hear me read my poem, “The Healer is Dead” followed by a meditation and poetry prompt set to a musical score by Cathy Nosaty. Listen to “The Healer is Dead” on POETRY & HEALING now! Poetry & Healing is the League of Canadian Poets’
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Words & Music is an hour-long weekly program on WMNR radio in which Will Duchon reads poems and pairs them with music he feels reflects the soul and energy of each poem. On Friday, May 22, Duchon featured my poem, “Better Days,” from The Sentinel, on the show, following it up by some “Reflections” by Duke Ellington. The
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To celebrate this month’s release of my new collection, Sequence, Anansi Poetry editor Damian Rogers met with me at the Royal Ontario Museum for a one-on-one interview. This interview is now available as Anansi’s inaugural poetry podcast! Here’s a link to the Anansi Poetry Podcast site. And here’s Anansi’s Soundcloud file: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200192584″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%”
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