Made in Montreal

Remembering Hilde by Dennis Johnson: I edited letters from Dennis Johnson to make this short memoir of Dennis's wife, Hilde Johnson. an...

Last spring when I began working in the garden I wondered why birds and squirrels were afraid of me but not afraid of each other. Then I th...

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 quiet walk on a November morning and visiting St. Philip's Anglican Church in Montreal West.

The bear is a symbol of rebirth, for the bear hibernates during the winter which is a kind of death, and then in spring he emerges from his...

Who has perfected the art of living? Who lives a life worth noting? My wife's parents come to mind, they were married to each other for ...

Heading for Samhain, the season of the soul; the unconscious opens to the conscious mind, in dreams, something caught fleeting in peripheral...

Here is my review, published in The Malahat Review, issue 197, winter 2016: Indigenous Poems and Stories from Quebec Languages of Our...

I wrote these notes before a reading at the Visual Arts Center in Westmount, QC, on 17 October 2017: Poets aren't nomads, we all come ...

I just finished reading Leo Kennedy's The Shr ouding , originally published in 1933, this edition was re-published by Michael Gnarowski...

Mark McCawley , the editor of Urban Grafitti ,  was in favour of online/digital magazines, I was in favour (and still am) of both, but I pre...

I've just read Patricia Morley's As Though Life Mattered, Leo Kennedy's Story (1994); Kennedy was one of the four poets that co...

I've just reread F.R. Scott's, The Dance is One ( 1973). Scott is not a great poet but he's also not a minor poet; as I wrote ab...

F.R. Scott was born in Quebec City on August 1st in 1899 but lived most of his life in Montreal. A member of the Montreal Group of poets, Sc...

Here is a Painted Lady butterfly on an echinacea bloom in our backyard. Lots of fun growing the flowers and then seeing many butterflies on ...

This review was originally published in The Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Society of Montreal, February 2017. The Archetypal Imagination...

Part of a poet's education is reading poetry and hearing poets read their work. Other people's poems inspire us, not to write like t...

Hear the church bells ringing at St. Thomas Anglican Church in Montreal, October 2016.

On Mount Royal If English-Canadian poetry is largely narrative and French-Canadian poetry is largely lyrical, then the most interesting Fren...

A favourite activity, watching honey bees foraging for nectar and pollen in flowers... here is the latest video on that.