Latest posts tagged with #WriteOttawa on Bluesky
Here, Cameron Anstee reflects on some of his early work, on and about Frank Street: “the building’s foundation, slowly / giving way to one hundred years and more / I will never be older than this room / large enough to hold our books…” #WriteOttawa @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
Writer and #Ottawa Poet Laureate David O’Meara on Elgin St. yesterday: “sub-zero, / overnight, a brocade of frost / on storefront glass. He died in / a doorway, his home a thin / sleeping bag in a city of rooms.” Thank you David for this. @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social #WriteOttawa
elegy for a friend, by @amandaearl.bsky.social: ~ how do we reflect on that which we hold dear, and grief, and loss. Thank you Amanda for sharing this on what turned out to be such a timely day. @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social #WriteOttawa
Jean Van Loon took us into the mind of JR Booth via her book #BuildingOnRiver (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social) while we stood on Parliament Hill, imagined it before there were buildings, and dreaming big dreams. Thanks to @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social and everyone who joined us today! #WriteOttawa
Next, Sneha Madhavan-Reese read from #ElementaryParticles and shared her very moving piece, Nathan Cirillo. We paused, stood in silence. @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social #WriteOttawa
From today’s adventure —“there are some in every crowd” (Natalie Hanna, in lisan al’asfour, ARP Books 2022) - thank you to @battleaxepress.bsky.social for joining us today to explore #Ottawa in Verse, with many thanks also to @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social; #AwesomeOttawa; #WriteOttawa
Thanks @johanneboucher.bsky.social for your very kind words! I had so much fun with it :-). Seeing poetry (and fiction) come alive in the place being discussed is one of my very favourite things. #WriteOttawa.
the #WriteOttawa poetry walk with Susan Jay was so full of joy, community, whimsy, poetry and friendship. Thank you, Susan, all the poets and fellow walkers who came out today. What a heart-full experience. Happy National Poetry Month! You rock!
#WriteOttawa
Time and Place: April 19 at 10:00 am. Little Victories, 44 Elgin
Email: WriteOttawa@gmail.com
Explore the poetry of place with Susan Johnson, VERSeFest, Natalie Hanna, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Jean Van Loon, Amanda Earl, David O'Meara & Cameron Anstee. Walk is full.
HEADS UP: #writeottawa with Susan Johnson on Saturday, April 19, 2025 10am. Meet at Little Victories, 44 Elgin. Explore the poetry of place with Susan Johnson and Ottawa poets. Free event, but registration is capped at 20. E-mail Susan to register: WriteOttawa@gmail.com
We're excited to welcome @joycuriosity.bsky.social of #WriteOttawa presenting a walking #poetry tour of #Ottawa, featuring poems performed on location.
Explore the poetry of place! Sat April 19 10am
Free BUT registration capped: 20/tour.
WriteOttawa@gmail.com to register and get all the details.
I’d rather it look like spring outside, and be eating tacos in St. Luke’s Park, but we can dream — here’s an excerpt from #Ottawa poet laureate David O’Meara’s The Tennis Courts in Winter #WriteOttawa
Vivian Vavassis’ Friday Poem (after @robmclennan.bsky.social) (in @arcpoetry.bsky.social)
“so, you see, i have to believe
there are saints in #ottawa walking
along #elgin or bank among
the guitar players & bums
& busy entrepreneurs;
their heads down and hurried hoping not to be outed….” #writeottawa
elegy for a friend by @amandaearl.bsky.social
“I’d been wandering the Farm Boy
at Metcalfe and Lisgar
holding a bunch of golden beets
by the stems, conjuring up recipes
with sweet potatoes and red onions,
thinking of the salads I could make…” #writeottawa
Hello #Ottawa #writer friends - I have a poem by Raymond #Souster (“Farewell to Teaching” — references Dunton Tower at #Carleton and Dow’s Lake) and am trying to figure out whether it was included in one of his manuscripts. So far no luck. Any advice? #WriteOttawa
I wish I could time travel to visit (among other things) gathering spots of #Ottawa past. Murray’s at the #LordElgin served up gossip and intrigue before my time. Here’s some spice from #HughHood in The Motor Boys in Ottawa. #WriteOttawa
Thinking back to the construction of the #Chinatown arch and the vibrancy it offers the neighbourhood. Appreciating @jcyliew.bsky.social’s visceral characterizations of it, and some of my favourite hangouts in #Dandelion @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. #WriteOttawa.
Around the #RideauCanal locks near Parliament Hill with #AlanCumyn in Burridge Unbound #WriteOttawa.
Druids! And druids running around downtown Ottawa. J. McCurdy’s #fantasy The Serpent’s Egg features some great chase scenes #WriteOttawa.
Colin McAdam’s Fall makes reference to boarding school kids drinking at the former Earl of Sussex pub #WriteOttawa.
There’s a small #spoileralert here, in this second of two pieces about the Alexandra Bridge from #TerryFallis’ The High Road. #WriteOttawa.
Next up, two pieces of spice about the Alexandria Bridge, starting with Mary Jane Maffini’s mystery around #Bluesfest. #WriteOttawa
Gwen Tuinman takes us back to when the #RideauCanal was brand new in her 2024 novel Unrest… #WriteOttawa
I’ll never know if I took a cab that William Hawkins was driving, but glad to finally work through his poems. Here’s a take on the canal #WriteOttawa
Anita Lahey’s work references many #Ottawa settings… here’s a piece about what later became the William Commanda bridge #WriteOttawa. Looking forward to biking across it again soon.
Here’s a piece from #KatieTallo’s Poison Lillies, partially set at the Ambassador Court in the #Glebe. #WriteOttawa.
Starting off today’s #WriteOttawa collection with some romantic action at the #LordElginHotel, with thanks to the late Elisabeth Harvor.
…and a piece from Norman Levine’s short story Gifts (in I don’t want to Know Anyone too Well) #WriteOttawa
