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www.lipstickpress.comJanet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-17618624210286467722020-03-02T18:33:00.001-08:002020-03-02T18:33:18.746-08:00Lipstick Press is not publishing books now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dear Poets</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sorry to let you know we have not been publishing chapbooks since 2010. We did some online publishing - mainly for social issues, but we have not printed new books. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Janet at Lipstick Press</i></span>Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-16046784370009325582018-03-07T14:02:00.003-08:002018-03-07T14:02:15.386-08:00The Magnificent (a poem for Colten Boushie) by Lesley Strutt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I would like to dedicate this poem to Colten and all those who are grieving for him, who feel lost, frightened, unheard, unseen, excluded, trapped by systems that do not support them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The light passes through you. Don’t give yourself away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It may be hidden but it’s there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Believing this is better than not believing this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even if you don’t believe it search for the light anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The darkness is not the enemy. There is only<o:p></o:p></div>
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this moment and what you do with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Practicing the light makes more light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It may not be much at first. Practice the light anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are magnificent. Know this even in the face of ignorance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life is waiting to blaze through you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lesley Strutt <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">is a member of PEN Canada and the League of Canadian Poets. </span><br />
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Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-36044521943639022582018-03-02T13:24:00.001-08:002018-03-02T13:25:51.682-08:00Colten Boushie by Douglas Sinclair<div>
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Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-6989601734419957792018-02-21T08:07:00.001-08:002018-02-23T15:53:04.042-08:00Dukkha by Naomi Beth Wakan (for Colten Boushie)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">My DNA is crammed</span><br />
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with thousands of years<br />
of persecution and pogroms,<br />
of expulsions and<br />
lives lived in perpetual exile,<br />
so when I hear<br />
of injustice anywhere<br />
(as large as genocide, or<br />
as small as one neighbor<br />
maligning another),<br />
immediately my cells<br />
line up in indignation<br />
and words of protest<br />
overwhelm my mind.<br />
The headline read<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">“Man Kills Boy”.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">No, let me correct that,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">“White man kills Indigenous youth.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yes, that’s the trigger,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the trigger that floods<br />
me with images<br />
of Inca-killing Spaniards,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of Leopold’s slaughter in the Congo,<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot,<br />
the Armenians, Rwanda, Srebrenica, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the Kurds, the Isaaqs, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Rohingya, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">and here and there and everywhere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">
the indigenous people of those lands, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and for all times and all places<br />
always the Jews, the perpetual Jews . . .
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The snapshots pale, and<br />
I am left, once more,<br />
with the stark image<br />
of one white man killing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">one indigenous youth.<br />
An image that may well </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">tear a country </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">in shreds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">And, uncertain what to do, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I turn to my husband,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">who answers my unspoken question</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in his usual simple way.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">“Life is complex,”<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is what he says. </span></div>
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Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-58998903348776635472018-02-19T14:34:00.000-08:002018-02-19T14:34:17.536-08:00Poetry That Heals by Naomi Beth Wakan<div align="justify" class="book_text" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How can poetry heal? Naomi Beth Wakan shows us through a tour of the different forms of Japanese poetry and ultimately answers the question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each chapter pairs the poetic form with the way healing intersects with reading and writing. But first the author asks <i>“Who has not at times of distress sighed, groaned, cried and let out an anguished “Why?””</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chapter headings read like a self help guide:<i> Being Here Now, Reading Haiku, How to Write a Haiku, The Haiku Walk, Healing the Earth, Loosening with Laughter, Freeing the Artist, Letting it all out, The Journey.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How can poetry heal? Naomi Beth Wakan shows us through a tour of the different forms of Japanese poetry and ultimately answers the question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each chapter pairs the poetic form with the way healing intersects with reading and writing. But first the author asks <i>“Who has not at times of distress sighed, groaned, cried and let out an anguished “Why?””</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chapter headings read like a self help guide:<i> Being Here Now, Reading Haiku, How to Write a Haiku, The Haiku Walk, Healing the Earth, Loosening with Laughter, Freeing the Artist, Letting it all out, The Journey. </i>But it’s not shallow advice, not a quick-fix-buy-this kind of magical thinking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Writers throughout took to writing stuff down as a powerful antidote to despair even in the most sad and tragic times. Even sadness expressed at a particular event can fight against depression. Poems that witness minutes, seconds, days or years, without rushing toward a solution, are revealing an element about life which the ego matures and understands - we are not in control.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Having experienced that catatonic flood. That rock in the stomach that prevents a move forward, that inner system bunged up with too much information for the mind and heart to process, I have turned to something unrelated to gain balance, and it has often given me new insights.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Being Here Now </i>(the first chapter)<i> </i>shuts the door to all the weather swirling around and points to a particular moment: <i>the heron / looks at its image / shallow waters. </i>Nature offers a returns to the universe. Ah yes, right. Got it! Vanity is a lonely pursuit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Reading Haiku</i> and <i>How to Write Haiku</i> is makes it clear this book is not a guide on how to become a post-modern Basho. “Haiku don’t tell you what to think or what insights they might offer.” writes Wakan. “Haiku present images for readers to consider and then experience the resonances within themselves that the strong images of the haiku produce.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Haiku Walk</i> is about reconnecting with nature, the eyes, the ears and the mind, using our own feet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Healing the Earth </i>when there is so much abuse of this planet and its beings, <i> “</i>you will find no despairing comments … No “it’s so bad!” or “it’s so terrible! Nor will you find overt comments on the awesome wonder of it all. What you will find is just what someone has sensed intensely at one moment in time.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is easier to contemplate than lists of what we can do and what we can’t control, or endless arguments about politics … the promise of a better world and better leaders, and the inevitable hangover after the “drug” wears off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anything we cherish needs more care than clever speeches from politicians. It needs a level gaze. It needs to be nurtured. The difference between sadness and despair is that sadness can evoke our care, whereas despair can lock the heart and mind in a vault.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The poet will share an opinion with humility through careful observation with her senses and her humanity. <i>“Yes, at such bitter and such sweet times poetry has its uses, I find.” </i>writes Wakan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This books taps into human nature - the apps that we are born with, that have served us throughout the centuries: the power of humour, freeing the artist, letting it all out, and the journey. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This book is light in weight and size yet large in its capacity to bring us back to our humanity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[published by Shanti Arts Publishing 2018</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">first published in 2014 by Pacific Rim Publishers]</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In Canada you can order the book here <a href="mailto:mail@pagesresort.com" style="color: purple;">mail@pagesresort.com</a> </span></div>
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Colten Boushie's life ended at twenty two.</div>
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I never met him but his existence met me.</div>
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Interrupted my perceptions about people.</div>
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About my people who clean their houses.</div>
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Wash their clothes. Read books.</div>
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Listen to the news.</div>
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My people who have a lot to say about right and wrong.</div>
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People who have clean tap water and cheap food.</div>
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Who had three meals a day and a clean classroom</div>
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to go to in their formative years.</div>
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Who watch TV dramas about Queen Victoria.</div>
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Her marbled halls and floors. Her servants.</div>
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Their extravagant clothes and hats.</div>
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My people who grew up in the age of hope.</div>
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Who benefitted from that deep well</div>
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of social contracts, a society where</div>
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we armed ourselves with opinions</div>
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mostly kept to ourselves</div>
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keeping the streets free of our tempers</div>
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that we have now lost.</div>
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A privilege to get over because the stealing </div>
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was done before we came and it was much more</div>
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than a wheel or a tire. It's time to give back</div>
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to the young faces and young hearts</div>
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something to live for.</div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">We shall not forget you. We shall not simply pass this day of injustice as though it's business as usual - because it certainly isn't justice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">If you want to read about it go here</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/02/10/our-reaction-to-injustice-is-a-reflection-our-soul-as-individuals-and-canadians.html" target="_blank">Toronto Star: Our Reaction to Injustice by Shree Paradkar </a></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">As a memorial project consider writing a poem for Colten, and send it to Lipstick Press (lipstickpress@shaw.ca). We shall post some of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">It's not enough. It's no substitute for justice, clean water, schools and respect for our original peoples. But it is a protest against the shame of racist attitudes.</span>Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-35799355915919944392018-01-19T14:06:00.001-08:002018-01-19T14:10:46.831-08:00Introduction to Writing Japanese Poetry with Naomi Beth Wakan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PLACE: Nanaimo Museum, corner of Commercial Street and Museum Way<br />
FEE: $25</span></div>
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Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-43642936602001195122017-08-09T05:00:00.000-07:002017-08-09T05:00:30.136-07:00Drumbeg House Studio Annual Sale<div class="m_4552584902419979702MsoPlainText" style="font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elias Wakan: Sculpture (some of the smaller pieces will be up for silent auction)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time: Sunday, August 27th, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10% of the sales will go to The Commons<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dust has settled after the fantastic Spring Writes Festival hosted by the Federation of BC writers in Nanaimo at the end of April.</span></div>
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Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-70523175424176003522017-05-06T11:20:00.000-07:002017-05-06T11:20:19.343-07:0015 Minutes of Infamy May 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-33019498332611014862016-11-28T12:54:00.001-08:002016-11-28T12:54:29.092-08:00Writing Workshop with Jennifer Manuel - Nanaimo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-253964069731942842016-11-15T22:08:00.001-08:002016-11-15T22:08:41.557-08:00Naomi Beth Wakan's Three Years in Office Celebration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-60386783394489687302016-10-17T12:05:00.000-07:002016-10-17T12:28:17.593-07:00Book Launch: October 20, 6 - 7 pm, Gabriola Library <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You are invited to a book launch Thursday October 20, 6 - 7 pm<br /><br />Gabriola Library,</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">575 North Road Everyone welcome Free, drop in<br /><br />Join us at the Library for a melodic prelude with Gabriola’s vocalist and pianist: Leah Hokanson. Savouries, beverages, and books for sale.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Appreciation to Paul Grignon for the cover art "Heroic Journey", Naomi Beth Wakan and Heidi Greco for the blurb and support, and Richard Olafson for publishing this.</span></div>
Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-87628099960505146722016-05-09T10:00:00.001-07:002016-05-09T10:00:51.876-07:00All Will Be Well -- Meg Barnhouse with Lyrics<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Kadbd3tCqc" width="459"></iframe>Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-85896507268459653792016-05-07T09:58:00.002-07:002016-05-07T09:59:01.237-07:00Calling all poets in the Nanaimo area<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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project, the Nanaimo City poetry map, is flourishing. The link is <a href="http://www.nanaimo.ca/goto/PoetryMap">www.nanaimo.ca/goto/PoetryMap</a>. As parts of the map are
filling up, we are sending out this second call for specific places that need a
poem attached. We have listed them below. Please send your map poems to the
e-mail address below. A
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The poem should be solely written by you (If your poem is selected you will be
asked to sign a declaration that the poem is your work alone and that you have
the rights to it. Submissions from people under 18 will require a parent’s
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The poem must be about site-specific
Nanaimo places and should be no more than 30 lines
(200 words). The
places we still need for the poetry map at the moment include: the hospital, schools,
Mudge Island, Snake Island, Linley Valley, Long Lake, Brannen Lake, Morden
Colliery Provincial Park, Chase Estuary Park, Petroglyph Park, Morel Nature
Sanctuary, Ammonite Falls, Shack Island, sports fields and arenas, Vancouver
Island University. We will still consider other spots, but will give preference
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The poems can be touching, funny, insightful, bitingly witty or angry, but will
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E-mail two copies of your poem as a pdf attachment (in Times New Roman, 12
point). One copy should have your name, address, e-mail, and phone # written
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Send them to <b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">callingallpoets@nanaimo.ca</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span>with the words “poetry map” in the
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their submissions, but only those poets whose poems have been selected will be
contacted. Keep a copy of your submission as it will not be returned to you. So
calling all Nanaimo poets – Let’s celebrate poetry. Let’s hear your voices. Get
creative about Nanaimo and send us your results.<o:p></o:p></div>
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writes, “For me, the habit of art indicates a way of being in the world, a way
of seeing, of sensing, with curiosity, interest, awareness. It is a habit, a mantra, an orientation, a
possibility, a practice. It is noticing
details, patterns, colours, wonder, what is wow-ful, which is almost anything,
everything, outside and inside, pleasant and unpleasant. It is a way of heightening experience as
artists, poets or painters, writers or mosaisists, opening ourselves to what’s
there. It is a point of view, a way of
inclining our minds, a stillness. Just
saying ‘the habit of art’ can shift the view. In this workshop we will employ
‘the habit of art’ to expand our practice as writers, as artists, and as
individuals interested in the world.” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Avenir Next Demi Bold"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Apple Chancery";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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focus on participants’ writing practice. Poets of all levels are welcome,
though an understanding of poetry and some experience of writing poems are
helpful. Arleen will lead discussions and provide writing exercises, including an
assigned poem, to be written before the retreat. Over the two days,
participants will compose a sequence of poems, share work in readings, and have
an opportunity for one-on-one sessions with Arleen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Victoria. Details and directions upon registration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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several weeks early. Maximum 10 participants. Your cheque will hold your place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-32011340689188924452016-05-01T19:19:00.000-07:002016-05-01T19:19:05.981-07:00Hidden Architecture of the Poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Janet Vickershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064735501871939254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7000300073693233014.post-60689013519428463562016-05-01T17:41:00.000-07:002016-05-01T17:41:02.424-07:00Book launch for David Fraser - May 14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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