When we were little, still so little, Before velvet Christmas dresses Before tap shoes When our mothers were our galaxy, our milky way, our entire pattycake universe; And Little Golden Books were our imaginations’ kitten-fuzzy playgrounds; When we pulled up the fronts of our dresses Just as the photos were being taken, not out of […]
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Covid-19 Movie Titles
Ferris Bueller’s Year OffWhen Harry Met Sally Through the PlexiglassDie Hard (no parody title required)Groundhog Day (ditto)Apocalypse Now (ditto again)12 Angry Men Refuse to Wear MasksAll The President’s Yes MenThe Lyin’ KingRaging BullshitBig Trouble In Little WuhanEternal Washing of the Spotless HandsEternal Bleaching of the Spotless MindLonely Taxi DriverGood Will Hunting for a VaccineRear Window […]
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INTERIORS: A show within a show
I’m honoured to be joining Edmonton writers Cathy Hodgson, Kerry Mulholland and Amy Willans for an evening of poetry on Wednesday, Aug. 8 (7 p.m., McMullen Gallery, U of A Hospital) surrounded and inspired by beautiful, haunting new work by artist Gillian Willans. Interiors is presented by Friends of University Hospitals and also features music by harpist Bev Ross. […]
Beware the Drumpercrock
Apologies to Lewis Carroll ’Twas votecrack, and the Cheese’d of Skin Did Grump and Twitter in the night: All Klimsy’d were his alt-right views, And Nasty Women gave him fright. “Beware the Drumpercrock, my girl! The clod that bite, the maw that’s jabber! Beware the Orangefaced Turd, and shun The furious Pussygrabb’r!” Took […]
Real straight talk about souls
Beginning July 9, a collection of my paintings, Real Straight Talk About Souls, will be on display at the Woodcroft branch of Edmonton Public Library. The exhibit is part of a larger, ongoing body of work in which the titles of the paintings are borrowed from beat poet Jack Kerouac’s writings — mostly from Dharma […]
Alberta Literary Awards shortlist
I’m honoured to be among the writers on this year’s Alberta Literary Awards shortlist. My short story Haircut (published in Alberta Views) is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Award. Winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 10 in the Lister Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The Writers Guild of Alberta […]
in case you were wondering
“The accordion is the best instrument for mournful occasions because it is melancholy and beautiful and cumbersome and ridiculous at the same time.” – Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows
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