So happy to have my poem "Charade" in the lovely fourth issue of The Mersey Review ! Thanks to EIC Sean Cunningham !

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I'm sure that, like me, many folks had this picture pop up on their entry screen today. Thinking of Amy Jones and the wonderful book, Pebble & Dove!

My Light-carved Passages is now launched as a free e-book! Download it at doublebackbooks.wordpress.com Thanks to all the readers and attendees at the launch and those who sent kind wishes. And much gratitude to the Doubleback Press team, esp Bethany Mulholland and Danielle Hanson !

Today's my birthday! Lots worth celebrating the past week. Poems in Mersey Review & Alex Rettie 's pfpoi, unveiling of poets who’ll appear in iamb ~ poetry seen and heard wave 19, an acceptance from Red Ogre Review & launch of my Light-carved Passages as a free ebook re-issue from Doubleback Press .

Here is my poem from last week up at The Mersey Review . Thanks so much to EIC Sean Cunningham for picking this poem and for the beautiful issue. themerseyreview.com/issues/4/chara…

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I've been following iamb ~ poetry seen and heard since near the beginning, and am so delighted that I get to be part of wave 19, celebrating five full years! 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 puts so much love and care into this project (and After... Poems inspired by other art and all his other work)!

Another fun contest from Alex Rettie and Poems for Persons of Interest , and a lovely winning poem!

I've long loved MER - Mom Egg Review , and am delighted to read this wonderful poemby nancyhuggett in its pages.

This Wednesday, Sept 18, in Vancouver, my partner Tim Stanley is giving a talk at Vancouver's Chinese Canadian Museum. Tickets still available. chinesecanadianmuseum.ca/programs/chine…

Earlier this week, I ran a 12-Hour Couplets Contest at Poems for Persons of Interest , did we get some beautiful work submitted. Check it out here: pfpoi.blogspot.com/?m=1

I am totallly delighted that my 3 poems are part of iamb ~ poetry seen and heard wave 19! I'm traveling, so I'll only have the pleasure of listening to my fabulous cohort later. Gratitude to EIC 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 & the mags that originally published 2 of the poems; Prairie Fire Magazine and Rust and Moth 🥥