Made in Montreal

  I've spent a lifetime writing: a diary I've kept  everyday since January 1965, books, poetry, book reviews,  criticism , and  corr...

From last summer's reading: in I Wanted to Write a Poem, The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (1958) William Carlos Williams discuss...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 Marriage between a man and a woman—the expression ...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 When I heard that a friend’s sister, living in New...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 As a woman animates and brings to life a man’s pot...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 Reg Skinner was my mentor and friend for many year...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 Two dreams when I was young had a profound affect ...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 The contradiction in writing is that you write in ...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 My father died in 1956 and my mother remarried in ...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I ...

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 Poetry, in my experience, is written in a moment o...

It is a constant struggle to write from one’s vision when there are so many people who oppose what one has to say. It is a constant strugg...

Rowan trees in Vancouver You don't see many rowan trees in Montreal but they are common in Vancouver. The abu...

                                                                It strikes me that so many                                            ...

Taken while driving over the old Champlain Bridge For some of us, there is a single moment when our lives changed radically, when life was r...

Poster for poetry readings at Vehicule Art Gallery, and showing interior of the gallery One fall evening, back in the mid-1970s, at the old ...

When you see your life as a journey, right away you've mythologized it, placed it in an experiential framework, a narrative with a begin...