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Below is a list of my 2021 publications, features, workshops and events. Many are now included in the Projects page that follows (I started with December and am making my way down to April)
2021 in Review
December
Upcoming Publication of The Rooftop in the League of Canadian Poets’ Lesley Strutt Memorial Chapbook
Publication of ten poems in RendezVous, an anthology of writing with a Toronto Group of Poets
December 21, release of Solstice Song collaboration, my poetry and voice, Jim Jackson’s composition and music
December 19, one of the feature readers in the Cultivating Live Holiday Poetry Open House
December 11, performing Solstice Song live at Loft112 with Jim Jackson, Prairie Soul Revue
Virtual Launch and Reading, the Same Page Anthology, Cork, Ireland
Participated in Cultivating Voices Live Poetry, the Clocks edition
Co-editor of the poems for the upcoming Parkland Poets Anthology
December 3, Poetic Opener at Planet Earth Poetry, Victoria BC (virtually). The theme was linguistic diversity and I read Cradle Rhythms, Una Tazza di Te' and Laundry Lines
Publication of a Holiday Recipe at the Alexandra Writers' Center Society, La Vigilia di Natale
Participated in the Loft 112 Community Postcard Project
November
Publication of The Tea Set in the League of Canadian Poets’ Fresh Voices #24 and Poetry Pause
Host of Parkland Poets Reading Series, Stony Plain, Alberta
Publication of The Smell of Sawdust in WordCity Literary Journal
Publication of Tireless Travail in the Wine Country Writers’ Festival Anthology
Poetry and Conversation at the Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia as part of PoetryXHunger
October
Feature Poet at Parkland Reading Series
Publication of five poems in the Fixed and Free Anthology, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Six Feet*, Tools, Living Air, Forget Me Not*, and I Find Myself* (*previously published)
Asked to contribute an essay and original poetry to Femmes de Parole, Quebec (not sure when this will be published)
Publication of A Flick of Blue in the Same Page Anthology, Ireland
September
Feature Poet at Haven at Home, the reading series for the Stroll of Poets, Edmonton, Alberta
Presented a workshop at the inaugural Wine Country Writers’ Festival, entitled Inspiration in Nature
Poetry judge for the Wine Country Writers’ Festival, Penticton, BC (virtual)
Publication of Enough in the PoetryXHunger initiative, USA; subsequent launch and online readings
Co-Editor of poems for the PoetryXHunger initiative, USA
Participated in a live poetry reading (the first since the start of covid in March 2020) as part of Calgary’s Peoples’ Poetry Festival
Participated in the Seabeck Haiku Conference, USA and publication in the Mountains Anthology
Re-recording of Secrets, my poetry and voice and Jim Jackson’s composition and music for a compilation that will feature one piece for each of the seasons
Shared my poem A Child at Rest at the Global Lighthouse Studios fundraiser for the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya (an initiative in the US)
August
Presented a workshop (virtually) at the When Words Collide Writers Conference, entitled Poetic Dreamscapes
Participated in Cultivating Voices Live Poetry online in the Wild Card reading
Created video readings to share on the YouTube channel of poet Indran Amirthanayam: Waiting (from the We Are One anthology), Six Feet (published in Pendemic Poetry) and Living Air (later published in the Fixed and Free Anthology
Participated in an online fundraiser for poet Amit Dahiyabadshah, sharing my poem Living Air
July
Online Listening Party of This Might Help, the Calgary Poet Laureate project, reading Quarantaine / Forty Days
Online launch of Outlying Voices, the Parkland Poets Anthology, reading Mothers’ Hands
Publication of Mothering Through Pandemic, part of the (M)othering Antholgoy
June
Participated virtually in Words of Resilience, a Poet Laureate project in Canmore, Alberta, reading A Moment in Pandemic (from the Writers’ Guild of Alberta collection Pandemic Postcards) and Waiting (from the We Are One anthology)
Participated in the Loft112 project Cadavre Exquis
Host of online launch of Joanne Morcom’s haiku collection Big Blue Sky for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta
Participated in Haiku Canada’s online conference and publication in the collection Random Sampling
Participated in Loft112’s project Missing You Mondays
Participated in Cultivating Voices Online Poetry Anthropocine reading
May
Publication of Wild Sky in the Stroll of Poets Anthology
Release of The Indie YYC Two Beat, a collaboration with pianist Joseph Fernando, who paired a Debussy composition (La fille aux cheveux de lin) with my poem I Find Myself (originally published by Tiny Seeds Journal in the US)
Publication of Inception in the WordCity Literary Journal Mothering Issue
Feature reader at Parkland Poets
April
Publication of I Find Myself in the Parkland Poets’ Society Poem in Your Pocket initiative (originally published by The Tiny Seed Journal, US
Publication of Starry Starry Night in the Alexandra Writers’ Center Society Poetry Month celebration
Publication of my review of Carla Scarano’s collection of poetry Negotiating Caponata in Freefall Magazine
Publication of Enough in the PoetryXHunger online journal
Virtual launch of Vallum Literary Magazine, Quebec, with publication of Dreams of the Dead
Publication of This Might Help, with my poem Quarantaine / Forty Days in print and audio recording
Publication of tanka in GUSTS
Interviewed on-air by CJSW for National Poetry Month
March
Feature Reader for Haven at Home
Participated in a Poetic Nowruz, brought by Persian Radio, Ottawa with my poem The Finches from The Cowichan Series.
Publication of The Flypaper Motel in the WordCity Literary Journal
Publication of I Find Myself in the Tiny Seed Journal, USA
Participated in Cultivating Voices Online Poetry Women’s History Month reading
Editor of the Parkland Poets’ Society Poem in Your Pocket initiative
February
Participated in Cultivating Voices Online Poetry Open House reading
Participated in Cultivating Voices Online Poetry Poet Laureate Lovefest reading
Publication of Love is In the Air in the WordCity Literary Journal
Participated in Poetry in Union, a spontaneous poetry initiative for Valentine’s Day put on by The League of Canadian Poets
Publication of Whispers in Constellate Literary Journal in Birmingham, England
January
Publication of tanka in Moonbathing Tanka Journal, USA
Publication of haiku and commentary in Ion Codrescu’s A Haiga Journey / The Wanderer Brush
Publication of No-One in My Family Has Died a Simple Death in the League of Canadian Poets’ Fresh Voices #21 and Poetry Pause
Publication of a review of my work (The Cowichan Series) by Carla Scarano in FreeFall Literary Magazine