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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 ...

 Here I am in front of Emile Nelligan's home on Laval Avenue in the Plateau, April 2011. Nelligan is one of our greatest Cana...

Maud Bodkin writes, When a great poet uses the stories that have taken shape in the fantasy of the community, it is not his individual sen...

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 ...

D.H. Lawrence writes the following in Apocalypse : To get at the Apocalypse we have to appreciate the mental working of the pagan thinker ...

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...

Here is the home of the Quebec-born poet Emile Nelligan. The spoken-word poet Ian Ferrier and his family live there today.

A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 My essay,   A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry ...