No-Comfort Zone Dec. 16, 2012

This week marked the retirement from Tree Reading Series of Director, Rod Pederson, after 5 years of excellent work promoting and advancing poetry in Ottawa. We’ve seen the launching of Ottawa’s own poetry festival, VERSeFest, the addition of the Tree … Continue reading

NO-COMFORT ZONE WEEK ENDING DEC. 9

It has been a couple of weeks since I posted my No-Comfort update, but it has been a period of rest after the end of ModPo. That was an accomplishment outside the Zone for sure, and rather carried me for … Continue reading

NO-COMFORT ZONE: MODPO WEEK 10, THE FINAL WEEK?

In Week 10, the final week of ModPo, we met Kenneth Goldsmith, Christian Bök, Erica Baum, Caroline Bergvall, Michael Magee, Rosemarie Waldrop, Jennifer Scappettone and Tracie Morris. We started off with Goldsmith’s Soliloquy, a book transcribed from Goldsmith’s recordings of  … Continue reading