On a friend's recommendation, I just picked up Anne Michaels' _Skin Divers_.  Ashamed to admit, canadiana ignoramus as I am, I've never read anything by her before, but these poems burn through me like a cigarette thru a sepia photo.

The poems offer an evolving cartography, strata of fossils and the tracery of innumerable relatonships,  emotions ( Read more... )

"Family is just a dirty word for censorship!"

ONEIRASADA (dream of being red ( Read more... )

I remember reading about the Lambton ( Read more... )

One of my poems is featured in this month's Bywords.

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POETIC INTENTIONS' POETRY SHOWS WILL TURN ONE YEAR OLD ON JUNE 25TH, 2007. TO CELEBRATE, POETIC INTENTIONS PRESENTS: ENCORE ( Read more... )

Van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhone ( Read more... )

A cherishing gesture later, the night splinters ( Read more... )

HOURI IN FURLIGHT ( Read more... )

"Who shall tell all the thoughts and feelings of Pierre in that desolate and shivering room, when at last the idea obtruded, that the wiser and the profounder he should grow, the more and the more he lessened the chances for bread; that he could now hurl his deep book out of the window, and fall to, on some shallow nothing of a novel, composable in ( Read more... )