About the Author
Jane Munro
Jane Munro?s sixth poetry collection Blue Sonoma (Brick Books) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. A member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko?s Dogs, she has been a professor of Creative Writing at several universities in BC, taught many informal writing workshops, and read her poetry to audiences across Canada. For more than twenty years, she has studied (in Canada and in India) and practiced Iyengar Yoga. In 2012, she moved back to Vancouver?where she grew up and raised her children?after spending twenty years living rurally on the coast of Vancouver Island.
Social distancing didn't stop us from featuring some pretty great authors on the blog this week: Raquel Fletcher talks about diversity in Quebec; Brian Orend talks Epilepsy and writing; and Jane Munro contemplates the relationship between deep listening and poetry. Plus we've ... Read more
The iceberg of consciousness …
Once, I asked workshops of undergraduate and graduate poetry students to complete the following statement: “Learning to write poetry is like ….”
The undergrads chose similes involving eyes and hands and minds. They said writing poetry is ... Read more
Marilyn Bowering's newest What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light (Mother Tongue Publishing) is a collection that meditates on absence, loss, and the natural world which Jane Munro calls "Tender. Passionate. Informed. Haunting. [...] giving us much to reflect on as we, too, ... Read more
September 21st marks World Alzheimer's Day, a day where Alzheimer’s organizations around the world concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer’s and dementia. While we're not an Alzheimer's organization ourselves, we definitely support the cause: ... Read more
Hi, Valentines! Our single literary listing is a blowout of a festival on BC's Galiano Island: the Galiano Literary Festival!
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Did someone say festival season? Eden Mills, and Word on the Streets Halifax and Saskatoon are all this week, plus great readings and signings.
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Ottawa's VERSEfest is going on this week; if you're in that neck of the woods, be sure to check out their amazing programming. We've included events with All Lit Up authors here for your convenience.
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Happy New Year, all! We've got a couple of events to kick off literary 2016 in Toronto and Vancouver this week.
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Holy Toledo: there are THREE LPG40 events coming at'cha this week in St. John's, Vancouver, and Winnipeg! Not enough? There's also IFOA going down in Toronto, and some author readings mixed in for good measure.
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After a tense day yesterday, the stakes seemed even higher today as we get closer and closer to a winner being crowned in this year's Canada Reads. Each of the three remaining titles were put in the hot seat today as questions of literary merit, privilege, and subtly. Unfortunately ... Read more
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