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Until now my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, has been performed exclusively in the U.S., which is fitting: it is primarily a memory play, exploring how Franco-American culture has been both preserved and lost over the past century. I am a native New Englander, and the reception my show has received there has
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Join me on November 17 at Arts Café in Mile End for Poetry Plus, one of Montreal’s finest and longest-running reading series. I’m looking forward to reading with a line-up of great local writers. Read on:
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This afternoon I was fortunate to be a guest at the IBM plant in Essex Junction, Vermont, where they were holding a diversity event focusing on Franco-American culture. I was invited to perform my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, and it was great fun to be part of the day. When I first
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After immigrating from Vermont to Quebec, I undertook the project (one that I now realize will be life-long) of reading Quebec and Montreal writers in an effort to pierce the border between US and Canadian lit, and become more locally literate. D.G. Jones is among those writers who have given me a sense of place
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It’s gearing up to be a busy winter, with a handful of new performances of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, already on the calendar: Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT – November 10, 2010 École secondaire de Saint-Anselme, QC – December 10, 2010 St. Johnsbury School, St. Johnsbury, VT – January 29, 2011
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Wired Magazine recently published a cover story called The Web Is Dead. The premise is that, over the past few years, we’ve begun to favor “semiclosed platforms” over the “wide-open Web,” that virtual space we were all going to democratize through the magic of HTML. The internet still seems like such a new technology, it’s
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the finest poets of the twentieth century. One of my favorite things about her is how she wandered up and down the Western Hemisphere throughout her life: born in Massachussetts and raised largely in Nova Scotia, she traveled widely in Europe,
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One of the many things that Vermont (where I’m from) and Quebec (where I now live) have in common is a deep desire to preserve local culture. It’s true, this impulse can sometimes lead to divided politics (Bill 101 anyone?) and xenophobia (flatlanders will know what I mean), but it also means that the people
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You’re invited to the launch of “House of Blessing,” a poetry chapbook by Montreal poet Jan Jorgensen, published this month by sitting duck press. “House of Blessing” Chapbook Launch Thursday, September 23 / jeudi, 23 septembre 19 h – 21 h Griffintown Cultural Corridor corner of Ottawa and Dalhousie / au coin des rues Ottawa
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Like the rest of us, words have baggage. Through eons of usage, they take on new meanings and often bring only a shade of their origins into modern parlance. If you’ve never given etymology (the origins of words) much thought, Howard Richler’s “Strange Bedfellows: The Secret Lives of Words” may give you an interesting sense
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