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It seems I have forgotten how to write. And while that might seems like a troubling thing for a writer, at the same time, I don't seem t...

In a few days The Long Poem Workshop at the Toronto New School of Writing will kick off. Twelve students will join me for twelve weeks in a...

Great time last night at Melville House in Dumbo/Brooklyn where I read with three fantastic poets -- Matvei Yankelevitch, Cathy Eisenhower ...

for dfb I'm trying to think up a good comeback for your fucking kidding nope. nope.

Some boxes arrived from the printer the other day. In them were copies of ESP: accumulation sonnets : a book written by me and designed by m...

One must consider, from time to time, say, when the solid mass of accomplishment to which one is engaged daily, breaks open, a moment of pau...

A quick post to announce the publication of a new chapbook, Woods/Pages , published by the incomparable souls at Greenboathouse Books. Those...

Thanks to those who came out last night to my reading at the Art Bar. I had fun, and it was nice to go out into the world like a poet, nice ...

Dear Blog, hello. I seem to have developed a cold. I'm tres grumpy right now, but I won't go into why. It is curious however that I...

Dear Blog, hello. It is a fantiastically fall night, but I am tired. Not really. My internal sense of language makes me write things like th...

Dear Blog, hello. Well, here we are in September. I'm having a somewhat awkward day, just kind of crummy. Mostly because people are ofte...

Well, now that we're back from moving all over Ireland Scotland and London we're getting ready for our big move. After more than ten...

I'm going to try to add something to this blog from time to time. I've always found it difficult because I find it hard enough liste...

While on tour last fall with the Mercs, David Lee and I were interviewed in Kingston by Rachel Manno on the subject of our new books for Cha...

The following is a nonlecture delivered by Jay MillAr at This Is Not A Reading Series, 20 November 2006 in Toronto, to launch the publicatio...

Went to see a production of Ionesco's The Chairs last night. Fantastic play, if you ask me. Two fantastic lines: "That man's no...

Last night I had a very vivid dream that my family and I were going to move to Calgary Alberta. Why Calgary I have no idea, I don't real...

Discovering some old poems in a box has caused me to think about the occasional poem, so I'm going to abandon all fears of 'the conf...

Well another era has come and gone. There were a few featured readers the other night who admitted that it was their first and last time at ...