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I’m currently in training for The Ride to Conquer Cancer, a 250km bike tour to raise funds to support cancer research, treatment, and care at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital. When cold or rainy weather keep me from riding outdoors, I train on a stationary bike at the gym. The human equivalent of a hamster wheel,
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I always get excited when Montreal’s Erín Moure releases a new collection of poems, but it’s an excitement very different from what I feel about other poets’ work. Most of us probably look forward to a new book by a favourite writer like a visit from a friend who lives far away. We anticipate long
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Next Wednesday, March 31, I’ll be taking part in The Painted Word Poetry Series at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum. Growing up near UVM in South Burlington, we were often bussed over to the Fleming on field trips; I remember most vividly the 6th century mummy that is still part of the museum’s collection.
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The Vermont Tour of my solo show Piecework: When We Were French concluded this past weekend with a pair of sold-out shows at Burlington’s Main Street Performing Arts Center. My heartfelt thanks to all of you who came out to see and support the show’s Vermont run! It was such a delight to share the
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When I was a teenager, I was fortunate to see Vermont poet David Budbill‘s play “Judevine” performed on the main stage of the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont. If you’re not familiar with the play, it depicts a small, impoverished Vermont town and the people who inhabit it, lovingly but without illusions. For me that
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The Vermont Tour of Piecework: When We Were French continues this weekend with performances at Marlboro College’s Whittemore Theater on Friday and Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Saturday. The Times-Argus called the show “fun, funny,” “fascinatingly entertaining and authentic,” and Seven Days said it was, “poetic and powerful…[Abby] Paige has assembled a patchwork of stories
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The Vermont tour of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, is underway! Just before opening the first weekend of performances at Montpelier’s Lost Nation Theater, I was able to visit with Vermont radio man Mark Johnson at WDEV. WDEV is that increasingly-rare media animal: a locally-owned and broadcast radio station, and it’s a
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Between the Vermont tour dates for my solo show, I’m pleased to be doing a little bit of performing in my own neighborhood. This week I’ll read some new poems at Jan Jorgensen’s Lawn Chair Soiree in the Plateau. Come out and warm up by the fire of three local writers’ words — and stay
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The Vermont tour of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, kicked off this weekend with four shows at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, one of the best regional theaters in the U.S. according to the New York Drama League and certainly one of my favorite places to perform. Audiences were enthusiastic and effusive
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Wittgenstein said, “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” This makes me suspect that philosophy and poetry are incompatible modes of inquiry, the former seeking to reveal the truths that language obscures, while the latter…does pretty much the same thing? Or something different entirely? Kate Hall plays with
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