Happy Louis Riel Day Manitobans!
~ And a beautiful Family Day to the rest of the country – except for our poor poor friends in BC who have to be at work/school today!!!
So in celebration of the day – I will post a poem I finished recently and read at the last Aboriginal Writers Collective circle this past Thursday at St. John’s Library. The poem is a little “angry halfbreed” of me – I tend to do that – but posted here with happy …
starts on Sunday, yes, that would be 13 days til xmas eve! scary how time flies!
so this is what we’re going to do here at thewriterscollective.org – we are going to post awesome writing everyday from sunday til the following friday. EVERYDAY. should be great. we have some real jems here – local writers showing their stuff, and maybe a good ol’ oldie or two. .. should be great awesome WRITEMAS fun (Writemas was coined by the lovely Hilary Friesen by the way)
so …
OOOO this’ll be fuuuuuun… join the ABORIGINAL Writers Collective of Manitoba for a little irreverence, AQUA BOOKS – 274 Garry Street, Friday, September 24th, 10:30-11:30 PM. It’s a late night AfterWords show for Thin Air – the Winnipeg International Writers Festival….
“Wherever members of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Writers Collective gather, there’s bound to be incisive observation and raucous laughter—often in equal measure. This is First Nations storytelling for the twenty-first century!”
Performing at THIN AIR 2010 are Duncan Mercredi, Jordan Wheeler, Shayla Elizabeth, Maeengan Linklater, Marie …
Let’s face it, submitting to journals and magazines is a bit of a crap shoot… your odds are improved by a lot of digging, researching, and, of course, writing and editing, but in the end, you’re just playing in the sand and hoping for the best!
Yet, this is not as discouraging as you might think, good research is not to be undervalued, look long enough and you can find the perfect publication for what you are working on, and just because the one you …
I know I know not everybody LoVeS poetry… so I have heard anyway… I just choose not to believe it!
But for those of you who are definitively nOt haters, you should check out the Poetry Foundation website…. oooo Nelly (who IS Nelly anyway?) there is some good stuff to be found there…
not only does it have the Poetry Tool - how great a name is ThAt?! It’s a database where you may search their plentiful archives by poet or poem, first line …
so i wanted to write a post about time, about how i never seem to have enough time to write, about how stupid it is that the work is always the first thing to go when life gets hectic, about how every writer i know seems to suffer from this time shortage epidemic. i wanted to write about this, but you know what? i really don’t have the time.
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