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Beware the Drumpercrock
Apologies to Lewis Carroll ’Twas votecrack, and the Cheese’d of Skin Did Grump and Twitter in the night: All Klimsy’d were his alt-right views, And Nasty Women gave him fright. “Beware the Drumpercrock, my girl! The clod that bite, the maw that’s jabber! Beware the O...
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Apologies to Lewis Carroll ’Twas votecrack, and the Cheese’d of Skin Did Grump and Twitter in the night: All Klimsy’d were his alt-right views, And Nasty Women gave him fright. “Beware the Drumpercrock, my girl! The clod that bite, the maw that’s jabber! Beware the O...
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Visceral Poetry, Nov. 8 at Audreys Books
Poets Laurie MacFayden (Walking Through Turquoise), Billy-Ray Belcourt (This Wound is a World) and Kelly Shepherd (Shift) read from their new books. With special guests Amy Willans and Darian Selander. Walking Through Turquoise — Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry continues to explore the fl...
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Poets Laurie MacFayden (Walking Through Turquoise), Billy-Ray Belcourt (This Wound is a World) and Kelly Shepherd (Shift) read from their new books. With special guests Amy Willans and Darian Selander. Walking Through Turquoise — Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry continues to explore the fl...
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Quartet 2017 launches at the Almanac
Ordinary who would ever believe looking into your ordinary eyes could stop me from breathing; that touching your scars could transport me to the stars who would ever believe two ordinary sets of hands could cartwheel to the moon and back, and again, and back then sleep in an ordinar...
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Ordinary who would ever believe looking into your ordinary eyes could stop me from breathing; that touching your scars could transport me to the stars who would ever believe two ordinary sets of hands could cartwheel to the moon and back, and again, and back then sleep in an ordinar...
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Walking Through Turquoise launches Sept. 19-20
Walking Through Turquoise, Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry, continues to explore the secrets and flirtations mined in her previous titles, White Shirt and Kissing Keeps Us Afloat. The sweet, clumsy intricacies of relationships; things you want to shout from rooftops but can’t;...
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Walking Through Turquoise, Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry, continues to explore the secrets and flirtations mined in her previous titles, White Shirt and Kissing Keeps Us Afloat. The sweet, clumsy intricacies of relationships; things you want to shout from rooftops but can’t;...
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Real straight talk about souls
Beginning July 9, a collection of my paintings, Real Straight Talk About Souls, will be on display at the Woodcroft branch of Edmonton Public Library. The exhibit is part of a larger, ongoing body of work in which the titles of the paintings are borrowed from beat poet Jack Kerouac’s writin...
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Beginning July 9, a collection of my paintings, Real Straight Talk About Souls, will be on display at the Woodcroft branch of Edmonton Public Library. The exhibit is part of a larger, ongoing body of work in which the titles of the paintings are borrowed from beat poet Jack Kerouac’s writin...
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2017 Alberta Literary Awards winners
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature Georgia Graham (Lacombe) – Cub’s Journey Home, Red Deer Press Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – Rising Abruptly, University of Alberta Press Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction Sydney Sharpe and Don Braid (Calgary) ...
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R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature Georgia Graham (Lacombe) – Cub’s Journey Home, Red Deer Press Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Gisèle Villeneuve (Calgary) – Rising Abruptly, University of Alberta Press Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction Sydney Sharpe and Don Braid (Calgary) ...
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the lights are off but i still have a cyber home
If you’ve tried to visit lauriemacfayden.com lately, you’ll have discovered that my artist/writer website is not accessible at the moment. It’s getting a long overdue facelift but will be back up shortly. In the meantime, I’m happy to remind you that my third collection of...
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If you’ve tried to visit lauriemacfayden.com lately, you’ll have discovered that my artist/writer website is not accessible at the moment. It’s getting a long overdue facelift but will be back up shortly. In the meantime, I’m happy to remind you that my third collection of...
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we wanted to let love come in
after hey, that’s no way to say goodbye for edmonton poetry festival, birds on a wire event, april 2017 remember what our bodies craved, when we were newly healing blueberries and honey tea, that sleepy, river feeling we mapped out tender places, stolen moments for the taking no greater gi...
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after hey, that’s no way to say goodbye for edmonton poetry festival, birds on a wire event, april 2017 remember what our bodies craved, when we were newly healing blueberries and honey tea, that sleepy, river feeling we mapped out tender places, stolen moments for the taking no greater gi...
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Alberta Literary Awards shortlist
I’m honoured to be among the writers on this year’s Alberta Literary Awards shortlist. My short story Haircut (published in Alberta Views) is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Award. Winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 10 in the Lister Centre at...
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I’m honoured to be among the writers on this year’s Alberta Literary Awards shortlist. My short story Haircut (published in Alberta Views) is a finalist for the Howard O’Hagan Award. Winners will be announced at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala on June 10 in the Lister Centre at...
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Richard Harrison book launch
Poetry reading and book signing to launch Richard Harrison’s new book, On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood (Wolsak & Wynn). Also reading: Nasra Adem, Laurie MacFayden, Thomas Wharton WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016; 7pm-830pm WHERE: ChVrch of John, 10260 103 St, Edmonton THE READ...
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Poetry reading and book signing to launch Richard Harrison’s new book, On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood (Wolsak & Wynn). Also reading: Nasra Adem, Laurie MacFayden, Thomas Wharton WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016; 7pm-830pm WHERE: ChVrch of John, 10260 103 St, Edmonton THE READ...
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Dear Younger Me: Relax, you’ll turn out OK
What would you say to your younger self? Dear Younger Me … A letter to myself Sunday, Nov. 6, 2-3:30 p.m. Latitude 53, 10242 106 St, Edmonton Six area writers have been invited to pen letters to their younger selves, whether as children or as young adults, and share these aloud with the aud...
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What would you say to your younger self? Dear Younger Me … A letter to myself Sunday, Nov. 6, 2-3:30 p.m. Latitude 53, 10242 106 St, Edmonton Six area writers have been invited to pen letters to their younger selves, whether as children or as young adults, and share these aloud with the aud...
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things that open my heart
your morning beauty your eyes in civil twilight the small of your back your sweet sweet kindnesses the love in your eyes seen through my eyes your quiet magic votre chapeau blanc votre chemise bleue your willingness your hopeful your aching rocking rhythm that flicker that grin that curling in yo...
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your morning beauty your eyes in civil twilight the small of your back your sweet sweet kindnesses the love in your eyes seen through my eyes your quiet magic votre chapeau blanc votre chemise bleue your willingness your hopeful your aching rocking rhythm that flicker that grin that curling in yo...
Published at spatherdab
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