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JC curates August “Poetry Quarter” in The Glebe Report; next submission call
The August “Poetry Quarter” in The Glebe Report released on August 17 features eight poets with unique ‘takes’ on the theme of water. The submission call referred to water as critical to sustaining life and as one of the ancient Greeks’ four elements that make up the world.Up 60% of the human body consists of […]
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JC to appear on 99.3 County FM, Friday July 13 at 12:30 with Vanessa Pandos
To preview the opening of County CollAboRaTive, arts commentator Vanessa Pandos interviews JC and artist Richard Leach who designed the chapbook that captures this 25th Anniversary ekphrastic project for the Prince Edward County Studio Tour. On Friday July 13, tune in at 12: 30 PM to 99.3 FM or listen live on the device of […]
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JC’s poems in County CollAboRaTive–where art meets the written word
JC is delighted her poetry plays a part in the Prince Edward County (PEC) Studio Tour’s 25th Anniversary year celebration. The Tour takes place in September throughout the County. At the art show and book launch on Friday July 13 at Bloomfield’s Town Hall, JC read aloud her two poems which evolved from artwork by members […]
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Sunday, July 8 interview with JC about “What My Grandma Means to Say” on 99.3 County FM
Lynn Pickering’s Sunday July 8 program, The County Writes/The County Reads, featured a 20-minute interview on how and why JC came to write the play “What My Grandma Means to Say” and then the book for children/families about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The program aired on 99.3 County FM after the noon news. This […]
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JC’s new piece for Mother’s Day, 2018
We lose our mothers Not on street corners or in parks or grocery stores though we may be mislaid Today, I wear a dead-woman’s coat Not my mother’s Hers were too large I lost myself in their embrace as I combed through her clothes their old-woman scent still strong on what she wore until […]
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Home and homelessness themes in Poetry Quarter in May Glebe Report; new submission call issued for August
Shelter, home, homelessness… Serious subject matter for Poetry Quarterin the May issue of the Glebe Report. Cut and paste this link into your browser to access the page published on May 11. http://www.glebereport.ca/2018/05/poetry-quarter-6/ JC curates the selection from local poets and found this quarter’s offering rich.“We received many, fine poems. A connection to home came […]
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Ottawa Launch of “South Shore Suite…POEMS” on June 5 — “A fine occasion”
On Tuesday, June 5 at 7:30 PM, JC Sulzenko read selections from her poetry collection, South Shore Suite…POEMS, published by Point Petre Publishing. www.pointpetrepublishing.ca JC welcomed the SRO audience and thanked publisher Brian Flack for coming to celebrate this first full collection of her narrative and lyrical poems. She also thanked Octopus Books for its […]
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April 20 Deadline: Poems about shelter, home, or homelessness
Glebe Report Editor Liz McKeen asks this question: is shelter a right? The May Poetry Quarter will feature poems by local poets that touch on themes of home, shelter, or homelessness. JC Sulzenko, who curates the quarterly collection, looks forward to what these writers consider in approaching notions of belonging or being outsiders. Cut and paste […]
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League of Canadian Poets published Garnett Weiss in its April “Fresh Voices” post
“Where, watching life through windows” appeared online in this April offering from the League of Canadian Poets. The cento originally appeared in Oratorealis in 2017 and draws lines unaltered from poems by George Barker, Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas,David Gascoyne, Ronal Bottrall, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Day Lewis, Ezra Pound, William Epsom, and Stephen Spender. Here is […]
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Can you write poetry like Rupi Kaur? Do you want to? JC’s April 10 Poetry Workshop for the Canadian Authors Association (Ottawa Branch)
JC was delighted by the lively discussion that included a romp through selections of poems from Rupi Kaur’s two, best-seller collections of poems. JC read from her first, full poetry collection, South Shore Suite…POEMS, which came out in November (www.pointpetrepublishing.ca) and touched on aspects of her writing life from works for children to self-publishing, from writing […]
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Review of “South Shore Suite…POEMS” in the March issue of The Glebe Report
J.C. Sulzenko’s South Shore Suite: poetry to celebrate review by Deborah Tunney J.C. Sulzenko tells us in the introduction to her soulful and varied poetry collection, South Shore Suite … POEMS, that the inspiration to gather her poems together from the past four decades was Canada’s sesquicentennial celebration. These poems not only celebrate this Canadian […]
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JC Edited “Nature Matters!”– a calendar of nature events published by Prince Edward County Bird Observatory
“I was very pleased to assist the Observatory (PEPtBO) in bringing out this second annual booklet, which highlights events around and about the County’s South Shore that celebrate its unique habitats, flora and fauna, and history,” JC noted. (She serves on PEPtBO’s Board.) This is the second year JC worked on the project, which lists […]
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JC republishes her “Boxing Day Colours” and sends her wishes for a happy 2018
BOXING DAY COLOURS Three black pigeons found solace in the too-warm puddles They alone had not dreamt of a white Christmas Did not regret the grim, gray slush that bequeathed lines of salt to new leather boots still stiff from packages, now crushed and stuffed along with blue reindeer wrapping and rivers of silver ribbon […]
JC’s interview Sunday, December 10 after the noon news on 99.3 County FM, Picton
Listen to Lynn Pickering’s feature interview with JC about South Shore Suite…Poems on her weekly program “The County Writes…The County Reads” on Sunday, December 10 right after the newscast at noon. Go to http://993countyfm.ca to live stream the program from the FM station that speaks with the ‘voice’ of Prince Edward County, Ontario. This first […]
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“South Shore Suite” with poems honouring Prince Edward County launched on November 18
An enthusiastic crowd attended the November 18 launch of South Shore Suite, JC’s first collection of poetry from Point Petre Publishing. Hosted by Books and Company, 289 Main St. in Picton, the event featured a reading by JC, fine wines generously offered by Half Moon Bay Winery, nibbles, and brisk book sales. “The launch was exactly as […]
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Launch of JC Sulzenko’s SOUTH SHORE SUITE, November 18, 2017 in Picton, Ontario
Point Petre Publishing (PPP) launches JC Sulzenko’s first full collection of poetry in Picton, Ontario, on Saturday afternoon, November 18, 2017. Prince Edward County publisher Brian Flack gives his reasons for electing to publish JC’s lyric and narrative poetry in PPP’s inaugural publishing program. “In our current political climate, the need for ‘something’ that speaks […]
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Oratorealis publishes two centos by A. Garnett Weiss
BC-based Oratorealis, which focuses on spoken word and experimental poetry in a triannual literary journal, published two centos by A. Garnett Weiss in Volume 2/Issue 2, which came out at the end of the summer. “Reflection, stained glass” welcomes lines from poets such as Toi Derricotti, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Brenda Hillman and Alicia Suskin Ostriker. […]
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New Bookends Review: Henning Mankell’s “Italian shoes”
JC gives this 2006 novel by prolific master of the ‘dark’ Swedish tale, Henning Mankell, 7/5/10 even though she couldn’t put the book down. Why? Go to Bookends to read her mini-review.
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Italian Shoes Henning Mankell 2006
This novel, where an island in the Swedish archipelago in a dying sea is a main character, represents the embodiment of John Donne’s “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of a continent.” The island sanctuary of the protagonist, a disgraced MD, prisoner of his avoidance personality and selfishness, […]
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Impromptu poetry morphs into BESPOKE POETRY or POETRY To-GO– JC Sulzenko writes poems on commission
“I just can’t resist the challenge: writing to a subject not of my choosing, suggested by someone whom I didn’t know beforehand, for the most part, to mark a birthday, an anniversary, a special event or person, or in memoriam,” JC admits. “I’ve now launched “BESPOKE POETRY” to give me the chance to create new […]
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple, 2012
Suggested for reading list as a book with humour, this novel is distinctly unfunny, with the exception of pages 222-223. Perhaps the ‘mis-label’ turned me off from the start. Added to that: only one likeable character, Bee, resilient daughter of a dysfunctional union (distant genius father with also genius, now fallen, falling-apart but loving mother, […]
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New Bookends Mini-review by JC Sulzenko: “Where’d You Go, Bernadette”
JC reviews Maria Semple’s national bestseller (US), “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” Go to Bookends at www.jcsulzenko.com to read her low-down on the 2012 novel.
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Silver Birch Press features A. Garnett Weiss poem in new ‘lost and found’ series
Garnett’s prose poem “When Johnny came marching” appears online in the newest series from Silver Birch Press (SBP) in California. This is how Garnett described her creative process: “I’m always intrigued by subjects Silver Birch Press suggests for a series. I read the cue, then waken as though from a dream to revisit experiences I […]
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January 20 Deadline for the February Poetry Quarter Featuring Themes Linked to Canada Sesquicentennial
JC returns for the second year to curate “Poetry Quarter(PQ)” in the Glebe Report. For 2017, rather than collect and bank poems throughout the year, PQ will tailor calls to specified themes for each issue. Full details of the call for submissions for the February, 2017, PQ appear on the home page of January’s Glebe Report at […]
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Jonagold Peter Blendell, 2014
Laid low by flu, I took up this independently published 102-page novella, which almost stalled during “Adam,” the first and least engaging, most recitative section of three, interrelated but independent first person narratives. Even though Adam’s family relationships and connection to the land, its apple orchards and the seasons are well presented, I almost set the […]
JC Reviews “Jonagold” by Peter Blendell
JC has been reading steadily but not caught up on her mini-reviews, which use up to the same number of words as characters for a tweet. Go to “Bookends” to read her review of Prince Edward County author, poet and artist Peter Blendell’s “Jonagold,” published in 2014.
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Annual reflection on the holiday season — JC’s poem “Boxing Day Colours”
From time to time, I revisit this poem after the frenzy of activity and gift-giving/receiving because of how it captures for me the inevitable, annual letdown, even as celebrations around the new year add add an upbeat quality to the season. So here again is the piece. Boxing Day Colours Three black pigeons found […]
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Two poems by A. Garnett Weiss in the 28th issue of “The Light Ekphrastic”
Editor Jenny O’Grady paired Garnett with Maryland artist Gina Pierleoni as co-contributors to the 28th issue of the online journal “The Light Ekphrastic, ” now celebrating its 7th anniversary. Garnett chose The Deepest Sleep from among the extraordinary works of art on the website featuring Pierleoni’s art– http://ledbaltimore.com/featured-on-the-board/gina-pierleoni/. “Given the range of work Gina exhibited, so […]
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JC Sulzenko’s “What My Grandma Means to Say” key to Alzheimer Society of PEI’s 2018-2019 School Outreach Programs