Iambic Cafe: Party statements about issues affecting writers, in advance of Monday's Canadian election

Friday, April 29, 2011

Interesting to see the party that didn't respond to pre-election questions posed by The Writers’ Union of Canada...

Party Responses to TWUC Election Questions-1

I'm a writer and an eater and believe we should spend at least as much time learning where our food comes from as poets do placing commas.

And...check out my Really Random Garden blog, mostly in bloom during the growing season...

Now available: The Earth's Kitchen, a tasty chapbook of food poetry from Leaf Press. I'll be reading from this at Planet Earth Poetry on May 6.
Writing recently published in: Acumen; Alimentum; Antigonish Review; CuiZine; CV2; Prism International; Vallum
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A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World from Lonely Planet; First Sixty: the Acumen anthology; Rocksalt anthology; Sunday Dinners, a chewy little interactive collection designed by Calgary artist Colleen Philippi, from JackPine Press; Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women from Caitlin Press (proceeds to THS Society of Transition Houses).
Cartography was published March 2006 by Oolichan Books
Recently read at: Tonight it's Poetry, Saskatoon, SK; Reid Thompson Public Library, Humboldt, SK; and Vertigo Reading Series, Regina, SK.
Coming up: reading at ASLE 2011 conference in Bloomington, IN.