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The exciting news that closed up 2024 is glowing me into 2025 ... my first Pushcart Poetry Prize nomination, with thanks to Brownstone Poets for nominating everafter !
January in California ... working on putting the final flourish on my upcoming first full manuscript, after three chapbooks.
Thanks to Marissa Prada of Albuquerque, New Mexico, for offering to publish this collection with Read or Green Press.
January publications and readings: from Ireland, Poems from County Clare and Far Beyond, with three of my poems.
A Moonstone tribute to T.S. Eliot
To correspond with the birth of this iconic poet, Moonstone Press put out a call for submissions. They accepted and published my poem "hollow", which I was pleased to share in the online launch.
It was an honour to be asked to read an advance copy of Dorothy Bentley's collection, Nature Divine, and provide my endorsement.
My new poem, "He Drew a Gun", has been accepted to an upcoming anthology against Gun Violence in the States.
Brownstone Anthology 2025
I have submitted a new poem written here by the Pacific Ocean, "The Sequence" for the upcoming Brownstone Anthology.
Community Involvement
I have been invited to present in a Francophone school through my involvement with Poetry in Voice, Les Voix de la Poésie in late February.
Feature Readings
I was Feature Poet for two readings online ...
March 3rd, for New York's
Oceanside Library's series
Poetry Near and Afar
(my reading starts at 23:30)
and March 13th at Parkland Poetry. I read from my collection of poems inspired by a visit to Portugal last summer.
I will share a recording of the reading when it becomes available.
There is also an amazing opportunity to present in a French and English celebration of poetry as Une invitée d'honneur, Le Printemps des Poètes, at the University of Calgary on Wednesday, March 19th.
Along with Susan Ouriou, I participated in a radio interview conducted by Mireille Langlois, animatrice of the Radio-Canada programme Culture et Confiture, in preparation for Le Printemps de Poésie, on the morning of Saturday, March 15.
Culture et confiture, Émission du samedi 15 mars 2025
La poésie à l’honneur à Calgary
Radio Interview
with Stephen Donohue,
The Poetry Joint on CJSW
in which I discuss my thoughts about the why of poetry, the power of poetry, and share some beauties by Li-Young Lee and the late Eavan Boland, as well as some of my own poetry.
It will be aired on March 19th.
Pop-Up Poetry at Calgary's Memorial Park Library
It was an honour to be invited to participate in this event, creating poetry for visitors on a manual typewriter!
Taking Part in the AICW Panel at Librissimi in Toronto on May 3rd
The AICW, the Association of Italian Canadian Writers, has accepted my proposal to share my poetry at the Librissimi celebration in the city of my birth. Pictured: il Salotto della Poesia, featuring Josie Di Scascio-Andrews and Pietro Sostegno, moderator par excellence Domenico Capilongo, poet Silvia Falsaperla and myself.
Tesoro Anniversary Invitational
Tesoro showcases poets every Sunday during May.
I was among those reading on May 11.
Presenting in Italy!
I am thrilled that my proposal to present an academic paper on two Italian Canadian writers, Caterina Edwards and Silvia Falsaperla at the Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference in Bologna, Italy has been accepted!
There was also the opportunity to participate in a roundtable and present my poetry about my family and place of origin from In My Father's House.
I had a piece accepted to Moonstone Press's
2025 Haiku Anthology,
and a blackout poetry piece in
"Silence is Consent"
In addition, my California poem, Pelican's Prayer was engraved onto a picnic table in the legacy project, the Coburgh Ontario Picnic Table Anthology.
We lost a poet in our extended community, David C. Brydges. I was moved to write a tribute piece, which was published on the Ontario Poetry Society website, a poem entitled When a Poet Dies.
Other exciting travel news ... my proposal to present in Charlottetown in late June, at the Accentifest conference, The Many Accents of Italy in the World, has been accepted!
And beyond ...
Three poems published in the
Fixed and Free Summer Anthology:
Another Lullabye for Insomniacs
the setting of the old sun
Mosterio de Santa Clara-a-Velha
In August, I participated again in Calgary's yearly When Words Collide Festival. I organized and am taking part in two events: As Feathers Fall, a presentation and workshop of haiku and tanka sequence writing based on our 2024 publication with fellow Magpie poet, June Read; and Naughty Night Reads, an afterhours collaboration of diverse local poets!
At a WWCollide workshop, I created a logo
using the line. Thanks to Adrienne Adams
for the inspiration!
On October 23rd, I co-featured at Fixed and Free
in Albuquerque, New Mexico with fellow poet
Charles S. Cobean. Charles and I are working
on a collaborative manuscript of poems to be
published in 2026.
On October 31, The League of Canadian Poets published my poem The Floating Clares, written on my trip to Portugal in 2024, in their Fresh Voices online series.
On Saturday November 9th, I will participate in an online
reading from The Moon and All Her Faces in the Tesoro
Invitational Reading with sister poets met in New Mexico
in 2024.
On Saturday November 15th, I am one of the feature readers
at the 40th Anniversary of Woolf's Voices
On Saturday, December 6, I will be participating in the online
launch of the 2025 Brownstone Anthology, which includes among
many others my poem The Sequence, written in January 2025 in
Leucadia, California.
On Sunday December 14, I will be sharing from The Moon
and All Her Faces in the Cultivating Voices Live Online Poetry
Series.
I have been invited to participate in the December
launch of the 40th Anniversary Anthology
of the AICW, in Toronto.
They are here! I received shipment of my first full-length poetry manuscript: The Moon and All Her Faces, from publisher Marissa Prada of Read or Green Books.
The official launch will be on Wednesday, November 5th at ShelfLife Books in Calgary. There are also a number of readings planned, both live and online.
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