Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws

Plus how social media has made us passive and streaming services have spoiled us. Then I end with an apropos Emily Dickinson poem! Enjoy.

The titular poem from her 2017 collection. Sensuous science. Enjoy!

In which you get a tour around the books, plants, knick-knacks and other wonders of my world. What’s your writing studio like? And I close by reading a section of Mark Strand’s Dark Harbor from 1993. Enjoy!

In which I begin with his tin whistle, then natter on about conversations in the hood, and then give you some bits of how I met Tim, his bio and end with a little satirical lyric on Professors of Poetry. Enjoy!

The first edited by Carmine Starnino with the focus being on craft and style and the latter edited by John Barton and attending to identity. The numbers of varied types is distinct; are the poems by Suzanne Buffam and Armand Garnet Russo I opted to read at the end? Or has our focus and inclusivity just changed?

For Labour Day as this Canadian poet who lived from 1909-1996 was a passionate defender of worker’s rights and feminism. I talk a bit about her bio (read Journey with my Selves for much more!) and recite her poem The Unquiet Bed. Enjoy!

Yeah. It’s September! No wonder I need to purge my brain. Here ya go: scrawlings about Iceland, CC grants, book tours, mushrooms, rodeos, students, new poetic forms and a short lyric about nothingness. Enjoy!

That I didn’t mention is of course also from Best Canadian Poetry 2023. A beautiful piece. Though I am down. This did help. Enjoy!

A book of solidarity with worker-poets around the world! I read its descriptor, chapter headings, explain its essential premises and read one of the poems by a hole-punch operator, a woman called Zheng Xiaoquiong. Poetry is freedom beyond institution and safety.

With a recitation from Roan Stallion for my Inhuman drummer Aren (RIP March 13, 2023) and a chat about my absence and various audience reflections! Enjoy.

From the Best Can Po 2023. It’s raining; I’m leaving again; this is a sensory narrative poem of immigration and loss. Enjoy!

Another camping discussion with Katherine Autio by a crackling fire on the poem as poem from Best Can Po 2023. O and the word is orthic not orthotic haha.

From the Best Canpo 2023. Read and discussed as a poem with occasional co-host Katherine Autio while sitting by a fire on our Hinton camping trip! Enjoy :)

A celebration, including the reading of a French poem called Articule Panda, a part of a piece by Lisa Russ Spaar, lines from Addonizio, Legris, McFadzean and a whole piece by Kayla Czaga. Plus a mention of an actual critical review of Clarke by Colman. Yay, a celebratory episode!

A renowned one called Those Winter Sundays. But first I discuss the plagiarism machine, bad lines from BC poets, Megan Fox and her fridge words and other examples of crap. Enjoy!

An exploration of this poem from Best Can Po 2023 as a poem! Revolutionary ;)

Mostly I talk about what Barton says regarding the Canada Council and identity boxes. And read a poem about death and life.

For my niece Stella’s 13th tomorrow! Even though it’s about a MUCH older Stella. Love Auntie Kate.

In which i talk rejection, form, selling crap, the insipid nature of how people describe poetry and hope for standards. Then read Russ Thornton’s Coffee Cup Stain, an elegy for his mother from The White Light of Tomorrow. Enjoy!

In which I speak about variety, connection, exploration and other aspects of engaging students in poetry. Thanks Katherine Autio for the questions! Then read He wants a Dangerous Poem from You Break It You Buy It. Enjoy!

A birthday poem excerpted from Recollections of Early Childhood. In two parts as someone started vacuuming haha. A new performance series! Classic poets and the vacuum!!!!

From Cortes Island in BC about poetry then and now and why. Mostly about song lyrics and ends with Cohen’s Who By Fire. Meanwhile I talk about highs and lows and recite Richard Cory by Edward Arlington Robinson. Enjoy!

Both strange and melancholic, this odd poem is in three parts. It’s poems about birthdays on the podcast in July!

A pantoum “The Price of Migration equals Slave Labour” by Christine Yvette Lewis and Ars Poetica by Billy~Ray Belcourt. And I tell you what I think of the restrictive asks of literary agents, the limiting formats of poetry books, and the way too expansive notion of what poetry is. Yep. It’s a rainy July. Enjoy!

One keeping the child; one having a miscarriage; one giving her child up for adoption. Plus a cat’s miaow ;) Enjoy!