50 years ago, Steve McCaffery published Carnival, The Second Panel, an explosion of words and letters produced by typewriter and stamp.
"the message being that we are all poets one and all as long as we have lungs"
Dear Michael Morris, Love Gary Lee Nova, sent 2 June 1970; a colourful letter on purloined letterhead.
I fall prey to warmly in the cold dead of winter
Sarah Tsiang's poem "Dick Picks". Her friend Josephine has been banned by the Calgary Catholic School Board from reciting this poem for the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie recitation contest.
www.youtube.com/shorts/LNY3Y...
Delighted to share this Call for Papers: “the leafless page”: bpNichol and the (true, eventual) Digital Archive.
Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.
Still yelling with Johanna Calle's "abecé" from her stunning alphabet book (2012).
Exoplanetary poetry: an update on SETI Live from the current Artists-in-Residence of the Cosmic Consciousness Residency (I show up towards the end lol). www.youtube.com/live/z3SWPwh...
The whole play is a video chat
Save the date! I will be hosting a one-day bpNichol symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University on Thursday 9 April 2026. Details to follow!!
Possible, tentative name for the event:
"the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca
David Aylward. "Crossword." Seripress, 1975.
Gorgeous
This was the group cheering on the Canadian truckers sounding their blast horns ripping through Ottawa for over three weeks straight, right?
Which is itself a nod to the last words of Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "A way a lone a last a loved a long the""
A spot of warmth on a cold, bleak day! cheers
Related:
Sean Monahan (8Ball) suggests that, maybe, the Mayan prophecy that the world would end in 2012 actually did come true:
that the breakthrough adoption of smartphones and social media in 2012 definitively cut us off from the real world, and we are now moored outside of it.
Which kind of creative writing will be replaced by generative AI? Poet Greg Betts answers this, and reveals how his writing has evolved and why community is so important.
https://www.oncreativewriting.com/post/poet-gregory-betts-on-literary-community-collaboration-and-the-changing-face-of-writing
Hem Press' editor has been doing an infrequent podcast interviewing leading poets such as @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, Penn Kemp and @whatisapoem.bsky.social among others. Check it out!
m.youtube.com/channel/UCVj...
Oh, that's wonderful to hear. The typesetting is key!
Best CDN speech since PET, really coherent and compelling. Dignified.
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- Phyllis Webb, Naked Poems, 1965
"The avant-garde is a storehouse of available and cumulative techniques deemed viable and adaptable to the urgencies of the present."
-- Steve McCaffery
When you read your reviews...
@bettinaforget.bsky.social @setiinstitute.bsky.social
It really is!
"Moire Typeface" designed by Jack Gilbe (2009).
Jack wanted to put a positive spin on this printers’ nightmare. The solution requires Moire to succeed – a typeface in which each character comprises two linear blocks. When overprinted, the letterforms appear as Moire interference.
What about the US?
"Gone is the word as word, though the word may still be used as sound or shape. Poetry now resides in other elements."
--Bob Cobbing, "The Shape and Sound of Poetry"
