This ain’t no namby-pamby cinnamon hearts & chocolate flowers couples fest. This is Gypsy Valentine, an afternoon of smokin’ hot verse and bohemian music at Leva Cafe on Sunday, Feb. 13. Edmonton poets Mandie Lopatka, Kelly Shepherd and Amy Willans and I will start the fire, accompanied by the smouldering violin of Karen Donaldson Shepherd […]
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Alberta Views tries White Shirt on for size
‘Laurie MacFayden’s White Shirt is the sort of garment that appeals and reveals far more than it conceals. Love, longing, loss and desire drip and swirl like the poet’s own Pollock-inspired cover art. Simple strategies work well here: the Tower-of-Babel adjectival pileup that describes one babelicious mouth in ‘dear life’ leads into other catalogues and […]