JC returns to Blizzmax Gallery 3071 County Road 13 with 3 poems as part of an afternoon of 5-minute readings by Prince Edward County writers. Organizers Nora-Lyn Veevers and Jane Macdonald invited local authors to tell a story in very short segments in what is an intimate and unique space.
Alice Mennecher is well known for the Gallery’s support of artists and writers in the County. “The Gallery provides a perfect setting for what promises to be an eclectic program,” JC noted.
Among featured readers are winners of the County Arts’s annual Wind & Water Writing Contests. JC’s centos, poems which use lines unaltered from the work of other poets with full attribution as to the sources of the lines, took first place in the contest’s inaugural year, 2019, and again in 2023.
Signed copies of the collections featuring JC’s poetry — BRICOLAGE, A GATHERING OF CENTOS, and SOUTH SHORE SUITE…POEMS — will be available for sale at the event.
Found Poems: Enter them in TOPS Contest by November 15, 2023.
Here’s the link to the Ontario Poetry Society’s contest which closes in mid-November:
https://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/contest-Found-Poem-Anthology-2023.html
JC can hardly wait to read the entries which are already coming in. “I enjoy found poetry, both when I create new work based on words or lines sourced elsewhere and also when I read what innovative poems others write. Found poetry is NOT a second class form of writing in my opinion but rather a way in which poets can find new ways of exploring and expressing their own unique points of view.”
JC encourages emerging and established poets to take the plunge into found poetry and to enter this contest.
“Halloween offers the chance to dress-up as someone or something completely different. Treat the creation of a found poem as a similar opportunity to embrace another dimension as a poet. I look very forward to my role as judge for the Ontario Poetry Society,” JC concludes.
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