MARGARET AVISON ~

 

R E A D   M E

            Toronto: The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2026

ERIN MOURE ~

 

Evocation

As beautiful as the idea of a shoulder,

the skin of a cup that mirrors the spine,

the spartan stone confesses

stubbornly in the dead limb.

It was not milled oats, it breathed.

It rubbed and pleaded with the sea's tears

it was serrated and sandy

glad levity inviting the barbarian stranger.

It was beautiful as the shoulder of cattle,

between the grass and flies,

between the light of August as dreamed in April

and, and, it was only the palm of her hand.

__________________________

Erin Moure

from Super Gay Poems

edited by Stephanie Burt

Harvard University (Belknap Press)

2025

CATHY MERRICK ~

Cathy Merrick, Advocate for Indigenous People in Canada,

 Dies at 63

Ms. Merrick during a candlelight vigil outside a Winnipeg courthouse in April during the trial of a white man accused of killing four Indigenous women. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to her after she collapsed while speaking to reporters on Sept. 6. Credit...Sebastien St-Jean/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

C A T H Y   M E R R I C K 

HELEN HUMPHREYS ADDRESSES THOREAU ~

 

R E A D   M E

Farrar Straus Giroux

2024

THE "RECLUSIVE" ONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ~

Bob Dylan introduces Bob Dylan




Bob Dylan (above), during his admitted "wasted 80s" period, when he seemed to be having the most fun. He proved in the film Hearts of Fire he really shouldn't try acting and instead just be himself, which curiously he seems to do the very best when not on a stage but on the world stage. . .walking around in a neighborhood — whether in England (see "Don't Look Back"), or shown above in Hamilton, Ontario. The press conference below has always been a sly one hour of brilliance.







Bob Dylan's 1965 press conference
introduced by Ralph Gleason








"Don't Look Back " (1967)
1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker 




http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/knock-knock-knockin-on-nobels-door.html?pagewanted=all