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  • Help this man make music
    Today is Glenn Nuotio's 40th birthday. He is one of Ottawa's talented creatives. he is a piano player, song writer & peformer from Newfoundland who we are lucky to have in Ottawa for the last few years. He writes songs with intelligent, playful & witty lyrics. Glenn Nuotio is a wee bit of Montparnasse or Berlin of the 20s/30s reborn.

    His EP made a few years ago is beautiful. Go listen to Crazy in Biloxi & other songs.

    & then, donate a few dollars to his campaign here.

    here are a few words on the project from Glenn:

    "This February, I turn 40 . Rather than sit and think of 40 as the "Old Age of Youth" as Victor Hugo wrote, I'm glad to have a great music community around me, a wide circle of friends and a lot of love in my life. I'm going to use this year to make my so far elusive debut album. I've performed in Canada for many years now, including events like Ottawa Bluesfest, Halifax Pride, The Ottawa International Writers Festival, WestFest, and the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, but this year in Ottawa , I've found the best possible creative team I can think of and I realize it's time. My new project, a full debut album will be an incredible project involving some of the best musicians and engineers in Canada."

    happy birthday, Glenn Nuotio. thanks for coming to Ottawa & helping to make our city a lively & creative place to live.

     
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Latest Publications

Rogue StimulusMagazine: Windsor Review Volume 42 Number 1Welcome to Earth

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...

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.