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Check out my latest blog Firebirds and Phoenix a journal on surviving and recovering from a major health crisis. all the seconds and the minutes and the hours and the days… my follow-up appointment with my surgeon went well last friday. i will have one more appointment with him in the spring. my wound is healing well, is almost completely closed over now, which also means i won’t have to go to the clinic anymore after one or two more appointments. my body is reacting well. [...]   february: the month of the lunatic itch Looking forward to… the surgery and everything after surgery on Jan 18 Also check out the literary blog of Amanda Earl literary sundries and whatnots. above/ground press broadsheet #309 by me is now also on line on the above/ground press blog. it's an homage to the poetry of Phil Hall. thanks to rob mclennan for publishing my poem... [photo by Charles Earl]   Spring Poetry Releases continued Poetry (& more!) for the End of the World Air Out/In Air: Poets for the Guatemalan Stove Project Bywords Warms the Night IX

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I'm an Ottawa writer, amateur songwriter, singer and small press publisher, a polyamorous love anarchist and an ethical slut. This site acts as a central hub for my shenanigans. Each section contains further details.

I am indebted to friends, dynamos, mavens and agitators who act as muses, mentors, confidantes and agents provocateurs in my life, whether they are aware of the role they play or want to take on that kind of responsibility or not. There include but are not limited to Charles Earl, Emily Falvey, Mark McCawley, my poetry workshop group: Marcus McCann, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost (also musical impresario) and Sandy Ridley; Sean Moreland, Jamie Bradley, Christine McNair, Carmel Purkis, Warren Dean Fulton, John Lavery, John W. MacDonald, Steve Zytveld, jwcurry, Liam Taliesin, Matthew Firth, rob mclennan...

and wonderful initiatives and organizations that make Ottawa a great place to live, such as the Ottawa International Writers Festival, the Ottawa Folk Festival, the small press fair, In/Words, the Moose and Pussy, above/ground press, Chaudiere Books, Black Bile Press, Capital Xtra, the Dusty Owl Reading Series, the A B Series and all the other literary reading series in town, the Ottawa Public Library, the University of Ottawa Morisset Library, the many cafés and pubs where I spend too much money and time, but get a great return on investment in the form of both conversation with some of folks mentioned above and silence to work on my various machinations...

and outside of Ottawa, the renegades that risk so much for what must seem like little reward: John Goodman of Ditchpoetry.com, Jonathan Penton of unlikelystories.org, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Melissa Upfold of Variations Zine, Greensleeve Editions for Urban Graffiti, Book Thug and other small press publishers...

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Highlights in the last year include

receiving a City of Ottawa Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists grant to work on my Kiki of Montparnasse long poem.

being shortlisted for Snare Books' 2009 Robert Kroetsch Innovative Poetry Award for my manuscript "Sessions from the Dream House Aria;"

receiving a Writer's Reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council to work on my Kiki of Montparnasse long poem;

having my long poem "Welcome to Earth: Poem for Alien(s) published by Toronto's Book Thug and giving a reading in Toronto as part of the Book Thug fall launch.