Sheri-D Wilson and I did a promo interview on CBC Radio for our last Mashed Poetics show at Vivace on the Drive. Thanks to Gurpreet Kambo for chatting with us and helping get bums in seats!
I was privileged enough to feature at Spoken Ink in Burnaby, BC, on Father’s Day as part of my Online Word Tour. Thanks to Lara Varesi for letting me feature and to Candace James for editing the video. I hope you enjoy the poems about and inspired by my Dad.
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Valentino Assenza on CIUT’s legendary poetry show, Howl. We talked about my new book, My Soft Response To The Wars on Write Bloody North Publishing and I read a couple poems. Val is and was a treat to chat with. I hope you like it.
I wrote a new poem back in November 2017 in preparation for a feature I was going to be doing in December 2017 in Guelph, Ontario. I wanted something fresh to present to the folks in Ontario as it was supposed to be their “comedy slam.” This is what I came up with. It’s called […]
This recording is from my feature on Aug 14th at the Van Slam. The music is by Explosions in the Sky and the song is “Postcards from 1952.” It’s a bit rough and tumble as it was the first time performing it and the lights were low so I had trouble reading it but I […]
Back in July we had our last Mashed Poetics show which featured Metallica’s AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. One of the poets in the show, Mohamad Kebbewar was unable to be there in person so we made a recording of Mohamad reading his poem Aleppo and we played it at the show over the loud speakers. […]
The Pacific National Exhibition is back with 4H Exhibitions, cotton candy, super dogs and the roller coaster. Unfortunately not all PNE memories are grand. This is a poem about that. It was recorded and performed live at Cafe Deux Soleils during my feature on Aug 14th at the Vancouver Poetry Slam.
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H. O. Prize: Classic Poems Part 2 (R. C. Weslowski and Van Slam 2010) There’s a new poetry prize at the National Poetry Slam in the United States. The prize encourages humour poems, weirdness and experimentation. Leading up to the competition in August they’re taking a look at some poems in the past that have […]
So here we go. I am usually pretty private about what’s going on in my life emotionally, I often keep things locked up pretty tight. However, I have been working on building trust and being open more and so, I thought this would be a good opportunity to share something with you. My step dad, […]