A. Rawlings's Blog

Pascalle Burton, in collaboration with the Queensland Poetry Festival (Brisbane, Australia), has announced a special letterbox installation at this year’s festival. She requested five former/current poets in residence (Jacqueline Turner, Emily XYZ, Jacob Polley, Shane Rhodes, and me) to compose circle poems, which has subsequently been set on rubber stamps. These will be collectible during the festival.

Pascalle launched a website about the project today. There, you will find interviews with e...

An homage to bpNichol! An experiment in collective creation! Circumventing geography! Digital structured improvisation! Tweet-tastic!Tune into Twitter and follow #bpNichol to witness his texts dance through the fingers of many loving bodies.

WHEN

Vancouver: 16:00-17:30 ON THURSDAY, JUNE 6th

Calgary/Edmonton: 17:00-18:30 ON THURSDAY, JUNE 6th

Ottawa/Toronto: 19:00-20:30 ON THURSDAY, JUNE 6th

Ísafjörður/Reykjavík: 23:00-00:30 ON THURSDAY, 6th to FRIDAY, JUNE 7th

London, UK: 00:00-1:30am ON FRIDAY, JU...

I initiated The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft in 2011, and am thrilled to announce its 2013 continuation. Details…

Arts education with a twist, high-school teacherJohn Ouzasand poetangela rawlingshave collaborated onan in-depth summative project designed to support high-school curriculum while connecting students with a wider, active, contemporary literary community. The results are available online here:

The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft

Students Interview Poets

http://canadianwriterscraft.wordp...

visited myGibber recently. We discussed poethics, countermapping, and Barthes’Pleasure of the Text.Deep gratitude for Gary’s engagement, questions, insight. An excerpt:

GB:InGibber, you explore how language names/claims the land, how it ‘marks’ it. But, you seem to say that, through a lively, engaged and aware reading, we can unpack the assumptions of language and consider how it can or cannot become part of the ecosystem and/or...

Le laboratoire l’autre musique features Maja Jantar and me performing an excerpt ofecholology. Of interest may be a short interview describing our approach to the text as a score.

1. How would you describe this form of writing sound and / or music?

These two pieces are excerpted from a larger written work by a rawlings, entitled echolology. In part, the overall project considers the role that language plays in environmental degradation — and how to shift towards a sustainable interconnection vi...

Chris Turnbull wrote to update me on the status of her project ROUT/E, which plants poems in plexiglass along trails near Ottawa. In 2011, she planted “I Will Not Ruin the Environment,” an excerpt from my work-in-progressecholology. From Chris:

Angela, accompanied by 2 wild 7 year olds on the weekend, I returned to Wood Rd., where I placed your poem in 2011. It was cold when I planted it in the snow, and the camera froze…and then I didn’t get back again untilSaturday. If you remember, the trai...

Gibber is included inCurating the Cosmos, an online art exhibition curated for the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers.The curators also offer a nice contextualizing essay. Here is an excerpt.

Poetic Bodies with Landscapes

InGibber, the Aeolian Marsh, andThe Confluencewe find work that speaks to an embodied poetics built around a practice of experimentation and performance. Placing it within a Humboltian sense of unity,Gibber, the work of rawlings, resonates with Wylie’...

Gary Barwin is participating inGeof Huth‘sInternational Pwoermd Writing Month. From Gary: “A pwoermd is a one word poem — no title — the poem is its own title and text, as we are ourselves. I will be posting a pwoermd here each day in April.”

Today’s poem is all about the moss, with a luscious nod to my questing withinGibber: “My thoughts and seeing of the environment around me, I must say, have lately been mediated & inspired by the languageye of a.rawlings’ liberty-Gibberish land-non-escapes...

Now onJacket2: fifteen writers respond to the archive of UPenn’s 2011 North of Invention festival of Canadian poetry. Co-organizer Sarah Dowling offers insight to both the festival’s creation and the curated responses. I was thrilled to participate in the festival with my collaborator, Maja Jantar, and I recommend reading all responses — formative to re/live this experience through sense, through reflection.

In attendance:Adeena Karasick, Christian Bök, Fred Wah, Jeff Derksen, Jordan Scott, Li...

The fifth and final interview in my curated seriesSound, Poetry has now been posted onJacket2. Read on for Rozalie Hirs’ conversation with Caroline Bergvall.