Greg's 2017 Roundup

Hello, friends! It's that time of the year again where I emerge from the darkness and return to post on this trusty blog.

Now I know I don't regularly post here anymore. That does make me a little bit sad, so I'm hoping to change that in 2018! It might not be every week, but here's to making a return to the blogosphere!

In the meantime, you can still follow me on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook (here and here), and on Instagram. 

So, in this spirit, I would like to continue the tradition of writing up a roundup of what I've been up to in 2017 and my End of the Year Reading List. I can sometimes forget to count my blessings, so writing a list like this is a good way to remember all the things I am grateful for.

I'm still hard at work on my manuscript-in-progress devoted to the life and work of Beaver Hall Group member, Anne Savage, but I'm happy to say that I'm in the piecing the manuscript together stage and starting to send pieces from it out to journals and contests.

I continued to lead various workshops around Montreal, partnering with Blue Metropolis' Quebec Roots project for the first time, as well as continuing to work with VSEAL, Vallum Magazine's Outreach Program. I also became a mentor through the Montreal-based arts mentorship startup, Mentorly. If you or someone you know who could benefit from a writing mentor through one-on-one online sessions, check out my profile here.

I taught Imaginative Poetry Writing at the Thomas More Institute this past fall, inspired by my experiences learning under the late Paul Violi in New York at Columbia University and at The New School. It's been my dream to develop this course and it was probably one of the most fun experiences I've ever had as a teacher!

Looking forward to 2018, I'm teaching Basic Essay Writing at the Thomas More Institute again this winter, and I have several projects lined up, including a very special one in partnership with Container (stay tuned for more details on that soon)!

I am particularly thrilled that my forthcoming poetry collection, Blackbirds, is being published as a pamphlet in Spring 2018 through London-based, Eyewear Publishing! I'm planning on making my way to England for the launch, so stay tuned for more event details soon!

Oh, of course, I can't forget that my dear daughter, Rosemary, is also a published poet now, too! Her poem "Candy Bandits", written when she was six, appears in the 2018 Rattle Young Poets Anthology! We're so so proud of her!

I am, indeed, grateful and thankful for so many things this year:

Selected Publications, Readings, Podcasts, and Miscellaneous from 2017

Inventions: Lullaby of Wordland, Le Cagibi, Montreal, January 26, 2017

"The Protest", Fallujah, February 6, 2017

Featured on "A Recommended Reading List For Trump's America", The Rumpus, February 8, 2017

"Our Blood Spans Continents", Low Word, February 17, 2017

Profile on Greg Santos by Mikayla Castello, a publishing student at Centennial College in Toronto, March 6, 2017

A featured reader, Visual Arts Centre Reading Series, Montreal, May 16, 2017

A featured reader, Joseph Sherman Memorial Reading for new League of Canadian Poets Members, Toronto, June 11, 2017

A featured reader, The Words and Music Show, Case del Popolo, Montreal, June 25, 2017

Anita Anand & Greg Santos, Episode 8, Inside the Frozen Mammoth Podcast, September 12, 2017

A featured reader, Slackline Creative Arts Series, Burdock, Toronto, September 24, 2017

Four poems, including "The Bridge" and "November 10, 2016" featured in the AmeriCanadian issue Matrix Magazine, September, 2017

Host for carte blanche issue 31 launch, Resonance Cafe, Montreal, October 25, 2017

AELAQ Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair, Le Monument National, Montreal, November 26, 2017

"Parents, Finish These Sentences", The Feathertale Review, Issue 20, December, 2017

Books I read in 2017 that I thoroughly enjoyed, and would recommend you read, too!

Why Poetry, Matthew Zapruder
The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner
Behold Things Beautiful, Cora Siré
How Do I Look?, Sennah Yee
even this page is white, Vivek Shraya
First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
Lady Crawford, Julie Cameron Gray
Flightpaths: The Amelia Earhart Poems, Heidi Greco
The Mechanics of a Gaze, Branka Petrovic
Panicle, Gillian Sze
Shenzheners, Xue Yiwei

Books on my to-read list for 2018!

Bicycle Thieves, Mary di Michele
The Original Face, Guillaume Morissette
Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie, Jay Ritchie
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O'Neill
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Sanders
Swing Time, Zadie Smith
Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang

What did you enjoy reading this year? What's on your to-read list for next year?

Thanks for reading and best wishes for 2018, friends!

-- GS

Greg's 2016 Roundup

Hello, dear friends. Has another year really gone by?

I really haven't kept up to date on this blog, although if you want know what's going on with me, please be sure to follow me on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook (here and here), and now Instagram.

That being said, I'd like to keep up my End of the Year Reading List and add a roundup of some of my happenings in 2016. It was a year filled with health-related lows and the losses of my dear grandparents. But it was also a year of wild highs, with me being awarded a CALQ Research & Creation Grant for a new book project I'm excited to dive into the new year and getting a new teaching position that will be starting in January, 2017.

So here's to a a happy, healthy, and productive 2017 to you all. Here we go:

Some journals and anthologies I was published in 2016

Poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" featured and discussed in World Literature Today
Two poems in The Feathertale Review, issue 18
Queen's Quarterly, Winter 2016 issue
# Nous Sommes Paris anthology, commemorating the victims of November 13, 2015

Selected Readings, Presentations, and Miscellaneous from 2016

Poetry Night 061 at Kafein, Montreal, March 1, 2016

Épiques Voices reading, Festival Dans ta tête, La Vitriola, Montreal, March 9, 2016

Yellow Door Reading Series, March 22, 2016

DC Books Spring Launch, April 14, 2016

Featured in "11 do's and don'ts for writing great poetry", CBC Books, April 15, 2016

Impromptu #27, writing prompts, The Found Poetry Review, April 27, 2016

The Green Mic Open Mic, Coop la Maison Verte, Montreal, July 28, 2016

Vallum Poetry Pop-Up Shop, Chez Boris, Montreal, September 10, 2016

Blackout Poetry Workshop, The Learning Tent, Word on the Street Festival, Toronto, September 25, 2016

Lit Pop Reading Series, Comedy Works, Montreal, October 30, 2016

Vallum Magazine and Chapbook Launch, Montreal, November 7, 2016

Marianopolis College Reading, Montreal, November 8, 2016

Scrivener Creative Review Bilingual Poetry Reading, Kafein,Montreal, November 15, 2016

The Lawn Chair Soirée, Chez Boris, Montreal, November 17, 2016

Books I read in 2016 that I thoroughly enjoyed, and would recommend you read, too!

Nox, Anne Carson
The Other Oscar, Cora Siré
XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, Campbell McGrath
The Hatred of Poetry, Ben Lerner
Model Disciple, Michael Prior

Books on my to-read list for 2017!

Shenzheners, Xue Yiwei
Swallows and Waves, Paula Bohince
A Beckoning War, Matthew Murphy
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien
We Are All Just Animals & Plants, Alex Manley
Small Fires, Kelly Norah Drukker
Behold Things Beautiful, Cora Siré
Miranda's Book, Alfred Corn

What did your read? What are you looking forward to reading in the New Year?

-- GS

Greg's 2015 End of the Year Reading List

Hello, everyone. Moondoggy here. I know, know, it's been ages since I've posted on this blog.

I'm sorry to say this trusty old site has been neglected this year, although I have been doing my best to keep pretty up to date on tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook, if you haven't already been following me on those venues. It's been tough finding time to blog. That being said, I'd like to continue the tradition of my End of the Year Reading List, with the added New Year's resolution of making sure I don't completely forget about Moondoggy's Pad in 2016. Okay, enough with the preamble, here we go:

Books I read in 2015 that I thoroughly enjoyed, and would recommend you read, too!

Proof, Larissa Andrusyshyn
A Hamburger in a Gallery, Stuart Ross
Signs of Subversive Innocents, Cora Sire
Chloes, Dean Garlick
The Uncertainty Principle, Roxanna Bennett
Rue, Melissa Bull
Daydreams of Angels, Heather O'Neill
Asbestos Heights, David McGimpsey
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine

Books on my to-read list for 2016!

The Hundred-Year Flood by Matthew Salesses
Man by Kim Thuy
Shimmer Report by Brian Campbell
Northern Compass by Isobel Cunningham

What did your read? What are you looking forward to reading in the new year?

G

SLS Montreal, February 19-22, 2015

Only a few spots left for SLS Montreal...

SLS Faculty readings at Drawn & Quarterly on February 20th-21st.

Review of Rabbit Punch! & Interview in Poetry Matters

"Greg Santos' second book Rabbit Punch! is filled with lithe poems, quick on their feet, poems that are witty, whimsical, serious, sarcastic, celebratory, bittersweet. Some are entertaining, while others are deceptively so—poems layered with meaning that reward upon repeated readings." 
- Nancy Chen Long, Poetry Matters

Rabbit Punch! is reviewed in Poetry Matters. Please check out the entire review HERE.

I was also interviewed for Poetry Matters, where I discuss pop culture, found poetry, revision, books I'm reading, and more!

Please check out the entire interview HERE.

Many thanks to Nancy Chen Long for taking the time to interview me and for such a generous and detailed look at my book.

G

Poem for Charlie Hebdo

Je Suis Charlie

by Greg Santos

Alert

At home

We hid under a desk

Outraged

Firebombed

Brutally threatened

Sombre

Darkest day

Disappearing

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Bolstered

Pledge

Let us unite

Tell the media

Defend art

We will win

Waving pens and papers

Armed and dangerous

Final coup de grâce

Author's note: This poem was written using text remixed from the following article on the Charlie Hebdo shooting from CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/world/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting-12-dead-after-gunmen-storm-newspaper-s-hq-1.289215).

Greg's 2014 End of the Year Reading List

Punchy Holidays!

Books I read in 2014 and would recommend that you do, too!

Blind Spot, Laurence Miall

New Tab, Guillaume Morissette

Peeling Rambutan, Gillian Sze

10:04, Ben Lerner

I Am Here, Ashley Opheim

How to Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying on the Inside, Jay Winston Ritchie

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, Stuart Ross

Books on my to-read list for 2015!

Us Conductors, Sean Michaels

Signs of Subversive Innocents, Cora Sire

The Uncertainty Principle, Roxanna Bennett

Sun Bear, Matthew Zapruder

Chloes, Dean Garlick

What did you read? What are you looking forward to reading in the new year? Leave your suggestions in the comments section.

Thanks and Happy New Year, my friends!

G

December 2014 Roundup of Rabbit Punch! Stuff

(illustration by Bob Schofield)

So Rabbit Punch!, has been out in the world for a little more than half a year. That's absolute bananas!

Since we're almost at the end of 2014, here's my second roundup of Rabbit Punch! related stuff, including reviews, interviews, and other ephemera. (For the first roundup of Rabbit Punch! press, please click HERE.)

Reviews

Klara du Plessis for the Resonance Café blog, écho!.

Ben Tanzer for This Blog Will Change Your Life.

Interviews

Concordia University's The Link newspaper.

Extras

Rabbit Punch! makes an appearance at the Scrivener Creative Review November 2014 web issue launch and another recap HERE, courtesy of Matthew Rettino

Rabbit Punch! invades Toronto and another recap HERE.

Rabbit Punch! at Expozine 2014.

"We Were Startled by the Sound of Fog", from Rabbit Punch! was the November Poem of the Month in Montreal Review of Books.

Rabbit Punch! is a featured book at Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly bookstore for carte blanche magazine's 10th anniversary celebration and issue 22 launch.

Rabbit Punch! featured at Concordia University's Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery's "Just Watch Me" exhibition.

Excerpts from Rabbit Punch! featured for #2PageTuesday on Nine Day Wonder.

Mentioned in Coldfront's special celebration on the life and work of Paul Violi.

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Thanks to all who have supported this little book of mine. 

You can order copies of Rabbit Punch! through DC Books, my publisher, HERE.

In Canada it's also available through Amazon.ca, Indigo, and All Lit Up.

American friends, yup, it's on Amazon.

Like it on Facebook, follow it on tumblr, and add it to Goodreads. 

If you've read the book, don't forget to vote for it and  review it on places like Goodreads and Amazon. It's through your support and word of mouth, dear reader, that helps every little bit. 

Thanks, Happy Holidays and #FollowTheRabbit!

If you're interested in reviewing Rabbit Punch!, drop me a line at gspoet[at]gmail[dot]com.

G

Roundup of Rabbit Punch! Stuff

So my second full-length poetry collection Rabbit Punch! has been out for a few months. It still feels very surreal. I've been quite pleased with the book's coverage and how it's been received so far.

Here's a roundup of Rabbit Punch! related stuff, including reviews and interviews:

Reviews

Beyza Ozer for Probably Crying Review.

Erik Noonan for The Small Press Book Review.

Zachary Cosby.

Megan Lent for Arbitrary News and Review.

Beach Sloth.

Bert Almon for Montreal Review of Books.

Interviews

Black Heart Magazine.

NDG Free Press.

Nine Day Wonder.

The Literary Report with Jeffrey Mackie, CKUT 90.3 FM.

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Well there you go. Many thanks to everyone who's taken a chance on my book so far. 

You can order a copy of Rabbit Punch! through DC Books, my publisher, HERE.  

Like it on Facebook, follow it on tumblr, and add it to Goodreads.

Thanks and #FollowTheRabbit!

G

RABBIT PUNCH! reviewed by The Small Press Book Review

"Help is on the way for the Anglophone reader in a global poetry world.  Rabbit Punch!, the second collection by Greg Santos, offers an admirable finesse to the reader who craves good verse."

-- Erik Noonan reviews Rabbit Punch! in The Small Press Book Review

Read the entire review HERE.

Yellow Door Poetry & Prose Reading, August 28

Hi Montreal. It's been a while. I'll be reading from my new book, Rabbit Punch! at The Yellow Door Reading Series this Thursday, August 28th along with some other lovely peeps. Come out and say hi.

G

The Yellow Door
POETRY AND PROSE READING
www.yellowdoor.org
3625 Aylmer, Montreal (between Pine & Prince Arthur) 514-845-2600
Producer/host Ilona Martonfi 514-939-4173
ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca

Thursday, August 28, 2014
Doors 7:00 pm Reading 7:30 pm At the door $6

An Evening of Poetry & Prose & Music

Barry Webster His novel The Lava in My Bones was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award, Dayne Ogilvie Award & the Lambda Literary Award.

Greg Santos Poet & teacher, author of Rabbit Punch! (DC Books, 2014), & The Emperor's Sofa (DC Books, 2010). Poetry editor for carte blanche.

Blossom Thom Poetry has appeared in the Great Black North, & CAA’s 5th Annual Anthology of Montreal Writers, & elsewhere.

Carolyne Van Der Meer Journalist, PR professional & author of Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience (WLU Press).

Alejandro Saravia Bolivian-Canadian author. He has published five volumes of poetry & the novel, Rojo, amarillo y verde.

Su J. Sokol Activist & a writer of interstitial fiction. Cycling to Asylum, (Deux Voiliers Publishing, 2014) is her first novel. www.sujsokol.com

John Kerkhoven Performs in the duo BluesReel with Patrick Hutchinson and in the KSB Trio with Paul Serralheiro and Stephen Barry.

Q & A Writing Process - A Blog Tour

What am I working on?

Rabbit Punch!, my second collection of poetry with DC Books just dropped at the beginning of May 2014, so I'm still processing the fallout from that. Getting a book ready has actually been mentally exhausting, on top of a whole other slew of things going on, so right now I'm doing my best to recharge my batteries and read, read, read. There are some books by local Montreal authors that are piled up next to my bedside table that I'm really excited about reading: Fire and Sage by Moe Clark, Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu, Peeling Rambutan by Gillian Sze, New Tab by Guillaume Morrisette, and I Am Here by Ashley Opheim. I just finished reading Jay Winston Ritchie's new book, the awesomely titled How to Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying and it is one of my new favourite things. My work right now is to feed my brain with fodder so I can write later.

How does my work differ from others of its genre?

You know that goofy line from the trailer for the movie Hellboy: "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." I'd like to think that my poetry provides a little bit of lightness in the dark; I'm the night light of poetry.

Why do I write what I do?

Poetry is a mystery that I'm constantly trying to make sense of like how they get the caramel into a Caramilk bar or how come Patrick Stewart doesn't age. I write poetry to play with words. I write poetry to challenge what people consider poetry to be. I write poetry because of people who say I should be doing anything else but write poetry. I write poetry to make sense of the odd deep sea fish that bounce around inside my skull. I write poetry because the first poetry workshop I ever did was with David McGimpsey at Concordia University and I saw the type of work that he did, his contagious enthusiasm for poetry, his deep seriousness for the art form despite all the funny, and it made me and continues to make me want to learn everything I can about the art of poetry.

How does your writing process work?

I write when I can. I don't have a regular writing process or schedule. I embrace the chaos. More often than not, I write after my two kids and wife are asleep. When I hear the hum of the dishwasher and it's dark, then I know it's time to write.

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A big thank you to Gillian Sze for 'tagging me' and inviting me to participate in the blog tour. Read her post here.

Next up: Jay Winston Ritchie and Ashley Opheim.

Jay Winston Ritchie is the author of Something You Were, Might Have Been, or Have Come to Represent (Insomniac Press, 2014). How to Remain Perfectly Indifferent While Crying on the Inside is his first book of poetry. He is the editor in chief at The Void and a shortlister of the LitPop award (2012) for his fiction. He lives in Montréal.

Ashley Opheim (Ashley Obscura) is the author of the poetry collection I Am Here. She lives in Montreal, where she is the founding editor of Metatron and co-director of the reading series This Is Happening Whether You Like It Or Not.

DC Books Spring Launch, Blue Met, 7:30pm, May 1, 2014

Thursday, May 1, 2014 @ 7:30pm

Salon du Jardin, Hotel 10, 10 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC H2X 4C9

DC Books will launch five new titles at the Blue Metropolis Festival this spring, including All I Can Say For Sure by John McAuley and Rabbit Punch! by Greg Santos. Please join us for readings and refreshments.

See the Facebook event page for the DC Books 2014 Spring Launch here.

OULIPOST HALFTIME REPORT

I've had to take a break from Ouliposting but hopefully I'll be back in the game again soon. In the meantime, The Found Poetry Review has compiled a "halftime report" of the Oulipost Project. Thank you to Doug Luman for the shout-out. Check out all the cool work that everyone's been doing!

Read the OULIPOST HALFTIME REPORT here.

Official 2014 Ouliposter

National Poetry Month is less than a month away and this year I'm excited to announce that I'll be participating in The Found Poetry Review's Oulipost project. I had so much fun challenging myself to write a poem-a-day last year with their Pulitzer Remix Project, that I've come back for more!

Ouli-what?  
Oulipo - Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (or "workshop of potential literature") is a group of mostly French-speaking writers and mathematicians that seek to create works using constrained writing techniques. 

So FPR has enlisted me along with a whole army of poets (82!) from around the globe to participate. That means starting on April 1st, Ouliposters will be writing a poem-a-day for the whole month of April based on a daily Oulipo-inspired prompt and using their daily local newspaper as a source text.

Be sure to follow Oulipost on twitter at #oulipost

Here's a brief interview with me about the Oulipost project:

1. What excites you about Oulipost?

Being forced to write a new poem every day.

2. What, if anything scares you about Oulipost?

Being forced to write a new poem every day. Ha!

3. Have you written experimental or found poetry before?

Yes! I sometimes incorporate Facebook and Twitter newsfeed lines I find into my poems. I also love to create and teach my students erasure poems using only a sharpie and a newspaper like Austin Kleon's newspaper blackout poems. You can read an interview I did about last year's Pulitzer Remix project with Cult MTL here.

4. What newspaper will serve as your source text?

The Montreal Gazette.

5. Who's your spirit Oulipian?

Italo Calvino is my homeboy. Have you ever read Invisible Cities? It exploded my brain. In it, Marco Polo describes the different cities he's encountered in his travels to Emperor Kublai Khan and each "city" is more magical than the last. I totally make reference to it in my first book, The Emperor's Sofa, and I have a poem from Marco Polo's point-of-view in my forthcoming book, Rabbit Punch! Sorry for the cheap plug but Invisible Cities means that much to me.

I'm also partial to Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, and Georges Perec's La Dispararition (literally translated "The Disappearance"), which is a novel composed completely without the letter 'e'.

Read Oulipo, people. They're really fun.

Hullo 2014

Okay, so it's been a while since I've updated the old "Pad." In fact, I think this is my first post of 2014 on here. So hi, everyone. Um, happy new year?

Things have been a bit crazy: me and the Mrs. bought a  house, we have not one but two kiddos now, and I started taking intensive graphic design courses, which are keeping me all sorts of busy and creative.

In publishing news, my second full-length poetry collection, Rabbit Punch!, is coming out this spring and I'm really, really excited about it. It's being published by Montreal-based DC Books and I made a Tumblr for it so you folks could keep up to date with all things Rabbit Punch! related.

Please check it out here: rabbitpunchbygregsantos.tumblr.com.

Thank you for reading. Well, that's all for now. It sure is nice to be back...

Moondoggy, out.

G

A New Year's Poem

A Wretched Year of Twerks

The renovations are done
until we need to do them again.
'Tis the season to wipe the blood from our noses.
Sorry, I've stained the snow again.
I am truly in a log cabin of conflict.
Roughing it with my wood stove heart.
Why does autocorrect keep changing
wood stove to Woodstock?
At least it's cozy in here.
Cozy is the nice way of saying small.
We wait for a small sign.
We dream of space travel and multiverses.
My mission for New Year's: think up a mission.
Then follow through with it.
This year Santa came again.
The nights awed, got longer.
Together as we sit in front of our many screens,
remember pixels cannot caress us back.
Poetry makes something happen
but I still don't know what exactly.
Do you know?
It's hard to get up after falling down.
But gosh, it's so comfy down here.
It smells of peppermint bark.
Despite no fridge. Minty fresh.
Miley stops twerking for a minute
and the world holds its collective breath.
Dear friends, the time has come to forgive.
Don't bottle it up inside.
That's how to make oneself sick.
Next year let us hope for less
[fill in the blank].
My son has found his toes!
Lets all of us find our feet.

- Greg Santos, Montreal, 2013

Haiku on The Good Men Project

A haiku I wrote ("A Lone Wolf") is up on The Good Men Project for their Masculinity Haiku series.

Please check it out HERE.

Thank you, Cameron Conaway.

G

Yellow Door Reading, Nov 12

Hey, Montrealers! I'll be reading at The Yellow Door Reading Series on Tuesday, Nov 12th along with some swell folks. Come out and say hi.

G

POETRY AND PROSE READING
www.yellowdoor.org
3625 Aylmer, Montreal (between Pine & Prince Arthur) 514-845-2600
Producer/host Ilona Martonfi 514-939-4173
ilona.martonfi@sympatico.ca

Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Doors 7:00 pm Reading 7:30 pm At the door $5

An Evening of Poetry, Prose & Music

Louise Dupré Poet and novelist, she has published twenty books. Plus haut que les flames, won the Governor General's Award in 2011.

Michael Mirolla Montreal‐Toronto novelist, short story writer, poet & playwright, co‐owner of Guernica Editions.

Carolyn Zonailo, West Coast and Montreal poet. Her twelfth book, Fight Fire With Spirit: Selected Poems, published with Ekstasis Editions, 2012.

Maxianne Berger One of the Quebec poets interviewed for Language Matters, (Signature, 2013). She writes haiku, tanka, & forms with constraints.

Michael Carrino Author of five books of poetry; associate editor at the Saranac Review, the literary journal at SUNY.

Greg Santos Poet & teacher, author of The Emperor's Sofa (DC Books, 2010). Poetry editor for carte blanche. Forthcoming, second collection in 2014.

Tom Fox is a classical singer with a rich bass voice. His repertoire includes operatic duets and solos in English, Italian, French, and Russian.

“We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
and The League of Canadian poets”

A McLaren Workshop App Poem

I used the National Film Board's McLaren Workshop App and created a video poem inspired by the late great Canadian animator, Norman McLaren, a childhood idol of mine.

And thank you for the plug NFB!

Enjoy.

G