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Last chance to see VerseFest tonight!

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #33 : 2024 VERSeFest Special, / @versefestottawa.bsky.social abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-...

#versefest2024 begins! with a reading by Ottawa poet Anita Lahey, / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

The second reader of the second half is nina jane! @textcurious.bsky.social / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

The final reader of opening night is MayaSpoken! @versefestottawa.bsky.social

Stephen Brockwell introduces the first reader of our second night of #versefest2024 / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

And now IAN MARTIN! @ianmartin.bsky.social / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

Our final reader of the first set (second night) is Amanda Earl! @amandaearl.bsky.social / @versefestottawa.bsky.social #versefest2024

The first reader in tonight’s second set is Ottawa poet Susan McMaster! #versefest2024 / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

Our final reader for night two of #versefest2024 is Ottawa poet Shane Rhodes! / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

TONIGHT: @versefestottawa.bsky.social at Redbird: doors 7pm/reading 8pm Jaclyn Piudik, Chris Turnbull, Derek Webster, Stephen Brockwell, Sandra Ridley, David O’Meara, Madeleine Stratford have you picked up your tickets yet via Redbird? online or at the door! www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

Fantastic @versefestottawa.bsky.social events last. Great to see regular contributors @funnyposts.online and Sneha Madhavan-Reese wow a packed house.

Our first reader tonight for night three of our festival is Stephen Brockwell! #versefest2024/ @versefestottawa.bsky.social

The final reader in the first set of night three of #versefest2024 is Montreal/Toronto poet Derek Webster! / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

The first reader of the second half of tonight’s third evening of #versefest2024 is Ottawa poet and @bookhugpress.bsky.social author Sandra Ridley, / @versefestottawa.bsky.social

Our second reader is Madeleine Stratford, reading in both French and English! @versefestottawa.bsky.social

Not in Ottawa? Ottawa poets in Almonte: millstonenews.com/almonte-read...

Sunday Mar 24: free! Where: Spark Beer, 702 Somerset Street West, Ottawa 8pm AJ Dolman, Myriam Legault-Beauregard & Nduka Otiono,     hosted by Madeleine Stratford 9pm Jason Christie, Klara du Plessis & Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi     hosted by rob mclennan details: www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

Day 3: Sat, Mar 23 : Redbird, 1165 Bank Street, 8pm $12 for the evening: tickets available via: www.simpletix.com/e/third-nigh...  Jaclyn Pudiuk, Chris Turnbull, Mark Goldstein, Derek Webster     hosted by rob mclennan Sandra Ridley, David O’Meara, Madeleine Stratford     hosted by Zishad Lak

Day 2, events 3 and 4: Friday, March 22, 2024 at Happy Goat, 35 Laurel Street, free poetry events: 8pm Amanda Earl, DS Stymiest, IAN MARTIN, and Mary Lee Bragg     hosted by Stephen Brockwell and 9pm Susan McMaster, Sneha Madhaven-Reese, and Shane Rhodes     hosted by rob mclennan

Session 2: www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/ope... March 21st, 9pm at Avant-Garde Bar with Daniel Groleau Landry, MayaSpoken, and nina jane drystek.

Events are up! Are you up for events? Opening night, March 21: Anita Lahey, Laila Malik, Marjorie Silverman and Monty Reid 7pm at Avant-Garde Bar. Free. www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/ope...

Or fewer for insomniacs!

newly posted: rob mclennan : 2024 VERSeFest interviews: Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi / @versefestottawa.bsky.social periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/03/rob-...

Thanks to all who contributed. $8,930 CAD raised!

Consider supporting the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser, if you can. Get great perks while supporting poets and Ottawa's international poetry festival. (I'm looking forward to my copies of flo. literary mag!)

Be aware that there are only THREE DAYS LEFT in the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser! and the schedule for the spring edition of VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival (March 21-24) will be announced soon! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

Be aware that there are only THREE DAYS LEFT in the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser! and the schedule for the spring edition of VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival (March 21-24) will be announced soon! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

March 21-24 we'll bring you poetry. Excellent news. We cracked $8000 in our fundraiser. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

This is actually the first of a trio of essays centering disabled poetry

2/2 Poems published are considered for the 2024 John Newlove Poetry Award judged by Toronto poet, Jim Johnstone. The Award comes with money, editing advice, chapbook publication & a reading at the fall Ottawa International Writers Festival, so it’s a sweet prize. See guidelines on bywords.ca

1/2 Please send unpublished poems for Bywords.ca’s April issue. Deadline is March 15, 2024. If you’re a current or former Ottawa resident, student or worker, you are eligible to send us poems. Send a bio, your connection to Ottawa, if you don’t have a current Ottawa address, and up to five poems.

You get books, we get means to pay poets. Win-win. Newly added: After Beowulf by Nicole Markotić, Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris. Still available: editing packages to make your work shine brighter. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

One week left for our fundraiser and perks still available. So far, thank you for bringing $7,435 CAD towards paying poets.

I care like a cat cares that it's Wednesday. [Es art mikh vi di kats fun mitvokh] tinyurl.com/39txj2ht #SundaySentence found in Dark and Lilac Fairies by Danila Botha in Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness (2024 Guernica Editions) tinyurl.com/2bsw27rx

my editor: this poem is two poems me: respectfully I disagree the poem:

Today on the interview series, Jamie O’Halloran shares her poem ‘Lunch Note,’ what she’s read lately that has her inspired, and how reading poetry every day is an important part of her routine. Read the full interview: pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview... @jamieohalloran108.bsky.social

don't forget that @periodicities.bsky.social seeks submissions for its #FirstRealPoets series! and maybe even some further reviews of contemporary poetry titles? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com

love the shirt.

some above/ground press author activity: russell carisse, Rae Armantrout, Mark Scroggins, Nate Logan + Monty Reid, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/02/some...

Need someone to look at your WIP this spring/summer? We got 6 poets left who will donate their time to VF as a perk for you. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

Get the Nightwood Editions trio for $45 Canadian. The Big Melt (2022) by Emily Riddle, Old Gods: Poems (2023) by Conor Kerr, and SHAPESHIFTERS (2022) by Délani Valin. No shelves left? Send $25 of heartfelt support. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

Invisible poetry bundle added for those who like your perks

New perks donated by Véhicule Press! What We Carry (2019) by Susan Glickman, Mother Muse (2022) by Lorna Goodison, Quicker Than The Eye (2023) by Joe Fiorito, and States of Emergency (2023) by Yoyo Camay

We are getting near our goal. Over $7000 donated already! Added perks: book trio (SIGNAL/Véhicule, 2023) by Anita Lahey, Vixen (Book*hug, 2023) by Sandra Ridley, Heating the Outdoors (Book*hug, 2023) by Marie-Andrée Gill (trans. Kristen Renee Miller Donated by Véhicule Press and Book*hug Press

Thank you. We have 44 backers so far! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...?

Are u looking for work? I've held a *similar* role at HEQCO for 2+ years. If you're an editor/writer, enjoy helping others cultivate skills, etc., & are familiar w/ developing research reports & w/ Ontario's higher ed. landscape (policy), apply! Feel free to DM me. heqco.ca/about-us/car...

there are now manuscript consultations with me as part of the @versefestottawa.bsky.social fundraiser! and consultations remain w Okot Bitek, Stratford, Melançon, Collis and fitzpatrick! and spaces remain in Stephen Brockwell’s in-person poetry workshop! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ver...

Passed $2500. yay! Apt 9 Press: Wm Hawkins Bundle added and new option for workshopping with rob mclennan!