Made in Montreal

    “The Eviction” by Ray Grathwol, 1946 Notes:   1. Allen  Ginsberg referred to line breaks in poetry as a form of composition that followe...

  There are at least three approaches to writing poetry. There is writing poetry as though it is prose, you know what you are going to write...

Here are two boxes of Krishnamurti books, destroyed when our basement flooded. When our basement flooded two years ago I lost books, literar...

First, I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity; it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highe...

Poems, which are the spiritual blood of a poet, Renew themselves in an eternal April, And renew us also who take them into ...

1977 1.   I began writing poetry before I heard of Allen Ginsberg but Ginsberg is the first poet whose work influenced me as a poet. He...

Preface to Mapping the Soul, Selected Poems, 1978-1998 (Muses’s Company, Winnipeg, 1998) When I was growing up, I had two dreams that profo...

Article from 11 November 1967 Back in 1967, two years after I began writing poems, I read the following article in the Montreal Star (publis...