December 20, 2022 – 8:34 pm
MICHELINE MAYLOR FEATURES KIT DOBSON Dr. Kit Dobson is an extraordinary professor and essayist at the University of Calgary. I call him extraordinary because he hasn’t let the grind of academia turn him into a corporate automaton. While he is not a poet, I chose his work because of its lyrical and poetic heft at […]
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December 20, 2022 – 8:28 pm
Styx and Stones I have a secret wilderness I keep inside, tight as spider-eggs tucked in for the winter and waiting to be far flung, strung, then tamped tight as a forest floor. What visions turn to currency? Now that anger is done, I’ve devastated you like a Wall Street Banker of a Saturday bender. […]
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November 2, 2022 – 9:41 pm
My Wild Body happiness of the world came to me again. My body effervesces, I think with my body which effervesces. -Anna Swir, trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan At 15, all the happiness of the world was a horse and my best jeans, halter in hand and boots with a one inch heel, every […]
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October 28, 2022 – 6:50 pm
A Found Poem I cannot recall when I entered a state of perpetual mourning. I grieve for the country I left with no certain prospect of return, the direction it’s heading in, the plight of the world, the foreclosed possibilities. Sorrow tears into my organs and gnaws at my bones. But what I fear more […]
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(All artwork images in this post with permission and Copyright David Blackwood Inc.) On July 2nd, the nationally and internationally acclaimed Canadian/Newfoundland artist David Blackwood(1941-2022) died at home in Port Hope, Ontario. He was eighty years old. But his artistic voice will continue to speak through his body of work that will likely rank among […]
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By Richard Osler
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Tagged A-10 Series, Anita Blackwood, David Blackwood, Doorways Out of Time, Ephraim Kelloway's Door, Flora S. Nickerson Down on the Labrador, Gram Glover's Dream, Kean's Men Waiting for the S.S. Bellaventure, Newfoundland, Richard Osler, Wesleyville
Never Again We say, “Never again.” But when people with power are pointing in one direction when many minds are pointing in that direction when the guns and bombs are pointing in that direction too, it can happen again. It does happen again. It can be furious and chaotic. It can be calm and orderly. […]
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February 15, 2022 – 10:21 pm
ON THE TABLE IN THE ROOM IN THE DARK house lies the book you didn’t know you were looking for, opened to the page with the poem about solace you didn’t know you needed; at first the letters, then the words, little by little the lines disappear as you read them in the light of […]
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By Richard Osler
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Also posted in Poetry
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Tagged Caitlín Maude, Danez Smith, Emily Barnardn, Greg Orr, Gwendolyn, Jeanette Winterson, Jelaluddin Rumi, Katie Farris, MacEwan, Nazim Hikmet, Padraig O Tuama, Patrick Lane, Rachel Naomi Remen
September 30, 2021 – 10:17 am
Poet as Diviner – Hunting the Pluck of Poetry An Invitation to a Ten-Day Generative Poetry Writing Retreat with poet Richard Osler and Paper-Arts Facilitator Terry-Ann Carter at La Romita School of Art, Terni, Umbria, Italy THE DIVINER Cut from the green hedge a forked hazel stick […]
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To A Future Reader I beg you, tell me the words I left ended up funny, gave you guffaws as the planet went all to hell in ways I was not sad enough to imagine. Ave Atque Vale Farewell Priscila Uppal from Ontological Necessities, Exile Editions, 2006 This kind of takes my breath away. […]
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The Tale of Postpartum The doctor is ancient and I don’t think she can hear me when I say, my columna verterbral is on the outside now. She asks, do you like caring for the baby? I nod. Yes, I love caring for the baby. And then I whisper. But how long can a woman […]
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