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All this kaffuffle with the Globe & Mail "letting go" or "reassigning" Martin Levin and Jack Kirchhoff from the Book...

Come out on 31 January to see me and Michael Menegon jam music and poetry together into an evening of unpredictable entertainment. There ...

I was gone for a while again. Not that I actually went anywhere. But it is now 2013 -- and i turned 42 -- isn't that strange? It seems l...

This week I wound up thinking a lot about why I do what I do from the point of view that we are defined by what we do to earn money -- the ...

It has been ages since I wrote anything here on this blog. I have often begun to write out my thoughts on something and then suddenly hit a ...

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...