Made in Montreal

  On some days I have several thousand visitors on this site and I wonder who are these people; often they are from Singapore but, recently,...

  29 May 2014 While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed, As to long panoramas of visions.              --Walt Whitman,   "When ...

Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980 (Coach House Press, 1980), Louis Dudek   My copy of Louis Dudek’s   Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980 (1980) u...

The discovery of a poet’s voice brings authenticity to the poet’s work, that the work communicates the content and form of the poem as well ...

  20 January 2016, Blvd de Maisonneuve, Montreal I like to sit and write, I like to put words on a page and form sentences, paragraphs, stat...

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...

There was a time when I would have agreed with William Everson, certainly one of the major proponents of shamanism in poetry—his famous proc...

I remember, as well, in my late teens experimenting writing poetry. I would play loud music and write, thinking the music could help me acce...

Back in the early 1970s, when I was a student at Sir George Williams University, I took a line from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud and made ...