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Your Arts Dollar @ Work
when Poetry Quebec heard Heritage Minister James Moore say that his department planned to spend $28 million dollars of its current budget on 1812 anniversary celebrations, it nearly had a Laura Secord cow.
Dec 8, 2011, 14:06
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Mahamud Siad Togane: Letter From Toronto
When I first came to Toronto in 1973, there were no more than half a dozen Somalis in the city; now in 2011, I cannot take a walk downtown without being accosted by a Somali.
Dec 4, 2011, 08:16
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Tom Konyves: VideoPoetry: A manifesto
The democratization of the medium realized by the introduction of video technology has, in the last 25 years, only sharpened the initial art vs entertainment debate; in particular, the movement of poetry to the “big screen” has exposed two conflicting positions – one demystifying the poem by complementary “visuals”, the other augmenting the suggestive power of poetry by unexpected juxtapositions.
Sep 13, 2011, 09:14
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Your Arts Dollar @ Work
Tough economic times, and when aren’t they for the arts and artists, usually bring out the social and cultural slash and burn hue and cry of most political parties and media pundits.
Sep 11, 2011, 08:22
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Gillian Sze: Pastoral Pedagogy
For three summers now, I have left the city to spend some time in the Niagara region to teach creative writing at Centauri. Centauri is a summer arts camp for youths between the ages of 8 and 18.
Sep 11, 2011, 08:21
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Setting the Record Straight
The history that Linda Leith purports to write about, according to the book jacket, is ‘the story of a literary community that went missing from the map of Canada for a generation, and that has re-emerged over the past ten years in an Anglo Literary Revival that is garnering international attention.’
Jun 23, 2011, 09:02
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Poetry-Quebec Editors: Guests of Canadian Ambassador to Serbia
The editors, who were invited to present a paper on the topic of “Modern Canada: Prejudices, Stereotypes, Authenticity,” chose to focus on the reality of the English language poets of Quebec and their relationship with their Francophone counterparts as well as the raison-d’etre for the founding of PQ.
Apr 24, 2011, 00:37
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Nap, Eat, Walk: A Tuscan Journal
I begin to hate the clock, which like a gate or barrier at either end of my day says start, stop! It doesn’t let me flow into the timeless space I yearn to swim in.
Mar 15, 2011, 21:08
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Patrick Hutchinson: Artie-cul
Soon after his death, Artie moved into our house. While our black-clad metallurgist son started sleeping the sleep of the dead in Artie’s black metal deathbed; Odette was proofreading for the Collected Books, agonizing over his insane punctuation predilections (two dot ellipsis then space, or vice versa?).
Dec 24, 2010, 09:31
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Endre Farkas: ProemCards from Hungary I
Going back. Again. To visit family and friends; the dead and the living. This country and its people still have me on edge... Hungary, something is eating you.
Sep 2, 2010, 15:37
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