Greg Santos, BA BA

Now that I've graduated from Concordia, I get to bleat like a goat whenever I mention I have two BA's. Fun stuff.

I've begun reading Michael Ondaatje's memoir, Running in the Family and what stands out most is the way Ondaatje treats his memoir like one of his works of fiction: impressionistic, non-linear, mixing prose and poetry, and highlighting the eccentricities of the various characters; in this case his family. Although the book is a memoir, Ondaatje openly blurs fact and fiction to create a portrait of his family in Sri Lanka and this got me to thinking about poor James Frey. Frey should have taken a cue from Ondaatje and made sure that people knew there were fictional elements to his much-maligned memoir, A Million Little Pieces rather than marketing it as "the truth". Just a thought.

Updates:

The good folks at MosaicGlobe have added my official site (gregsantos.mosaicglobe.com) to their Featured Sites page.

Black Heart Magazine has started a new Weekly Updates feature. In the coming weeks, expect to see a lot more reading material on their site. And not just fiction. They're expanding into the realm of non-fictional sexploits, interviews, Carrie Bradshaw-esque columns and more.
Coming soon: Hawt poetry by Black Heart's Poetic Licensee (yours truly), Y. Funk's first attempts at the dirty limerick, interviews with Montreal hotties... and some special surprises.

Canada's online forum for discussing contemporary poetics, Poetics.ca, has finally released its sixth issue.

The sixth issue features:

A Bridge to Naridive: The Poetry of Andrew Suknaski by Kemeny Babineau

Modern Fiction & The Decay of History: bpNichol's the true eventual story of billy the kid by carl peters

Interview with Souvankham Thammavongsa by Soraya Peerbaye

Writing a Long Poem for a Very Long Time by Ken Norris

the stone-boat heart: Letters to Andrew Suknaski by rob mclennan

View the new issue at Poetics.ca issue #6