2021

Cultivating Voices
Live Poetry online
Honouring Women's History Month
and the International Women's Day
Sunday, March 7, 2021
What an honour to be invited to be a feature reading and share my poems which honour the feminine, in its different manifestestations in my life.
The poems I shared:
Our Children
The Tea Set
The Roof
The Highway Traveller
Mary of the Terrace
I am Getting Ready to Memorize Mother
Wild Sky
Forget me Not
Vallum Magazine in Montreal
will be publishing
dreams of the dead
in their issue 18:2
Invisiblity
Spring, 2020
It will be published in print and also with an accompanying video version.
It is an honour to be invited to share my poetry in such fine company in this upcoming radio program in the company of so many accomplished poets.
Nowruz
a celebration of Canadian Poets
hosted by Ottawa Persian Radio
Sunday March 14, 2021

This incredible weekly online reading series created and curated by Sandy Yannone, with help from Elizabeth Ann, Don Krieger, and Kim Port Parsons.
For International Women's Day, there were five feature readers and eleven open mic readers from the United States, India, Canada, Ireland ...
My reading commences at around 50 minutes in.
dreams of the dead
my grandmother is a hydrangea petals pressed close
she opens in blue splendour
...


Poetry in Union
Valentine's Day 2021
I was one of a group of poets from the League of Canadian Poets who "met" with folks in Zoom BreakOut Rooms to compose personalized love poems for a pandemic Valentine
Whispers
I whisper in your ear
so you hear and do not hear
my rhythms fill the pauses
in your breath
my rhyme encircles you
like a villanelle
...

Constellate Literary Journal
in Birmingham, England
has published my poem Whispers

WordCity Monthly
has published
Love is in the Air
in their February edition
Link to WordCity Monthly
Love is in the air
and I say love with cheese...
gruyère and emmenthal
brie, parmeggiano
crocks for the oven, red and gray a bag of onions and bay leaves plucked from nanna's garden last summer
...
A Haiga Journey and
The Wanderer Brush
The publication of this double-anthology was postponed by covid, but my copy arrived in early 2021.
Ion Codrescu collected haiku from around the world, and graced each page with original artwork, haiga to match the haiku.
Ion asked each contributor to share a favourite haiku and reflect upon it. I chose to share haiku by Chiyo-ni.
I find myself
On January 2, 2021, Tiny Seed Literary Magazine, a nature-based literary journal in the US, published my poem. I love the image they chose to accompany it !
This poem was significant for me, as it was essentially the first unprompted poem since the beginning of the pandemic that had nothing to do with pandemic.
I find solace and inspiration in Nature, and this poem captures that.
My thanks to Tiny Seed Journal for including it in their lovely literary journal !



