Pesnicky spod viechy 3 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am

What gifts have thrift store record bins given me, “Pesnicky spod viechy,” (i.e. Songs from Wine-Vaults) no less for the translations of the songs than for the music itself: 1. On That Sitno Beyond th...

All the Norton Anthologies 12 Jun 2013 | 04:42 am

Another in the academia.edu series in which I make up poems for the titles of articles that academia.edu thinks might be by me. Bright darkness: the poetry of Lord Byron presented in the context of hi...

Policewomen 10 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm

The Policeman 1 Jun 2013 | 01:29 am

The Nurse 31 May 2013 | 03:16 am

Thanks, Vancouver Island 9 May 2013 | 10:57 pm

And thanks to the BC Book Prizes Tour for sponsoring me and Alan Woo as we gadded about hugging trees and visiting schools and meeting booksellers and having fantastic local food and singing “Dream a ...

Vancouver Island Tour 25 Apr 2013 | 02:50 am

Alan Woo, the author of Maggie’s Chopsticks, and I are pairing up for the Vancouver Island leg of the BC Book Prizes Book Tour. Pretty amazing the Book Prizes put this on. All told, they sure cover a ...

Everybody loves a soirée 11 Apr 2013 | 03:31 am

And tonight’s the BC Book Prize soirée at Joe’s Apartment on Granville, 6-8.30 pm. I am checking the budget to see if I can stock up on the shortlisted titles to read while on the Vancouver Island leg...

Ethel Wilson 9 Apr 2013 | 01:12 am

I had a CanLit score at Black Sheep Books on Saltspring week before last. Not only did I snag “the fourth book of poems by a brilliant young Canadian poet” but I found a 1967 Laurentian Library editio...

Gay Dwarves Makes Fiction Prize Shortlist 15 Mar 2013 | 05:19 am

Great news. Gay Dwarves of America has been shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC Book Awards!