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Patrick M. Pilarski is the co-editor of DailyHaiku, an international journal of contemporary English-language haiku, and poetry editor for its new sister publication DailyHaiga. His first full-length collection, Huge Blue, was released in 2009 by Leaf Press, and he is the author of two chapbooks, most recently Contemplating Vows, written with Nicole Pakan. Patrick's writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, and on CBC Radio One as part of the CBC Poetry Face-off. He has served as Vice President of the League of Canadian Poets, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta. Read More → |
Poetry is coming to town!
4 September 2007
Wow. There is a fully loaded Mac Truck of poetry headed for Edmonton. It's packed to the gills; its break-lines are cut; it's set to slam into Alberta's capital this September 17th-24th! Edmonton Poetry Festival is coming to town, bigger, badder, louder than you've ever heard it before!
It is going to be a wild ride! All the details can be found at the Edmonton Poetry Festival website. In particular, keep your eyes out for a few events I'll be involved with:
- Return of the Killer Blinks (a Stroll of Poets Society rapid-fire poetic sampler)
- CORTEX (The Cortex—a mind-blowing multimedia display mixing art, dance, poetry, and music)
- The Roar LitCrawl (The Roar's poetic pub-crawl of the best spoken word from Edmonton and beyond; Mike Appleby, Adam Snider, Nicole Pakan, and I will be rocking the mic at The Fabulous Leprechaun Burlesque)
- Small Words, Big Moments (DailyHaiku print journal launch and haiku workshop... with tea!).
- Coffee Lines (Edmonton poets storm downtown coffee spots for an afternoon of public poetry).
Also, for those Zen-ishly inclined, DailyHaiku is now accepting submissions for our next contributor cycle until September 30, 2007. Write haiku? Love haiku? Send us a submission; we'd love to see a sample of your work!
