It’s National Poetry Month for at least another week and a bit so I think it’s high time I write this particular blog. I'm gonna give you some transparency here. People ask me all the time 'how do you do it'? I'm not sure that they're asking specifically about how I exist as a professional… Continue reading Poetic Opinions – On Fees, Dues and Definitions
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Poetry On Demand – for National Poetry Month and Forever
So, if you don't know it yet, I do this thing called Poetry On Demand. It's LIVE, INTERACTIVE, ON-DEMAND-POETRY-MAKING (yes, I'm yelling). I've been doing it for close to five years now. At festivals. In classrooms. On stages. And tomorrow morning - on the freakin' radio, yo. Check it. 8:10am on 97.5FM - CBC Radio. Windsor Morning… Continue reading Poetry On Demand – for National Poetry Month and Forever
Local Literary Events April 8-12!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015 - 7PM The University of Windsor students in the Editing & Practicum class (taught by Windsor's Poet Laureate Marty Gervais) is having its annual book launch. This year it's a triple threat with new poetry from local poet Peter Hrastovic, new prose and poetry by Gillian Cott and an anthology about… Continue reading Local Literary Events April 8-12!
Poetry as Prayer – How Poetry Infuses our Spiritual Journeys
I was thinking about Easter and how, for many, this holiday and others like it (meaning religious and/or spiritual) – Passover, Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanza, Diwali, etc.) bring out or make more robust our connection to prayer. Many religious and/or spiritual beliefs use books as guidance for living life, and all of them, (if I’m not… Continue reading Poetry as Prayer – How Poetry Infuses our Spiritual Journeys
VANESSA SHIELDS 