Calling all Thunder Bay readers. Pick up the magazine 807: A Northwestern Ontario Literary Review and read the works of the 2008 writing contest winners. Included are the winning poetry, memoir, children's fiction, flash fiction and short stories. A good looking publication too. Big congrats to editors Rosalind Make and Deborah deBakker and the prodcution team.
The application forms for the Sleeping Giant Writers' Festival are now at the public library. Circle August 22, 23, 24 on your Blackberry (OK, your calender). Many congrats to the seventeen local sponsors and to the organizing committee who brought us such a great line up. I definitely plan to attend Alistair McLeod's workshop on the Novel and the Short Story. However, I cannot make up my mind which of the other workshops to take in - Flash Characterization by Steven Heighton looks interesting.
Congratulations to Alan Wade, who won the 2008 Chronicle-Journal Arts and Heritage Award. Alan's columns on the history of Thunder Bay are always unusual and interesting.
Watch here for the date of the launch of a new book of poetry by Elizabeth Kouhi. Title is Waiting for the Greening.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
A Poem by Meghan Eddy
UNTITLED
More devastating, perhaps, and yet
This affection is of unknown creation
I’m drowning in your silhouette,
Where your lack of words are a dark vexation.
The wind blows lonely through these spaces
And I long for nonchalant indifference.
I will wait in the darkest of places,
Until the light reveals my existence.
Myself, I’m ailed with a strange affliction,
And no matter the force behind the shove
It won’t leave me, this unwanted addiction.
And that is how I know it is love.
More devastating, perhaps, and yet
This affection is of unknown creation
I’m drowning in your silhouette,
Where your lack of words are a dark vexation.
The wind blows lonely through these spaces
And I long for nonchalant indifference.
I will wait in the darkest of places,
Until the light reveals my existence.
Myself, I’m ailed with a strange affliction,
And no matter the force behind the shove
It won’t leave me, this unwanted addiction.
And that is how I know it is love.
Monday, June 2, 2008
A poem by the late great Gert Beadle
The Bottom Line
We are waiting for you Adam,
To examine your conscience,
to change your think,
To go with the flow
and support us.
We are longing Adam
To make you a partner
and struggle to-gether
for our changes.
We are resisting Adam
The status of other
the role of your mother
the butt of your humour.
We are plotting Adam
to do what you do
and go where you go
but differently.
Gert Beadle authored two books of poetry, Salt and Yeast and Rising. In 1984, Governor General Jeanne Sauve presented her with the Persons Award for her work as a founding member of Northwestern Ontario Decade Council and the Faye Peterson Transition House.
We are waiting for you Adam,
To examine your conscience,
to change your think,
To go with the flow
and support us.
We are longing Adam
To make you a partner
and struggle to-gether
for our changes.
We are resisting Adam
The status of other
the role of your mother
the butt of your humour.
We are plotting Adam
to do what you do
and go where you go
but differently.
Gert Beadle authored two books of poetry, Salt and Yeast and Rising. In 1984, Governor General Jeanne Sauve presented her with the Persons Award for her work as a founding member of Northwestern Ontario Decade Council and the Faye Peterson Transition House.
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