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O Canada – A sad day in Poetville
The word "persons," contrary to what Papier Q insists, is not "subliminally sexist." When the Supreme Court of Canada in 1928 ruled that women were not persons fit to be appointed to the Canadian Senate, that was not subliminally sexist, it was demonstrably sexist.
Mar 11, 2010, 09:00
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Oh No Canada
How can any poet support this? It’s so unrhythmic and “bureaucratese.” And, of course, it is as sexist as the very one it is replacing. And it is even more insidious because it’s subliminally sexist. Can’t the FPP see that the word “persons” contains the word “sons”?
Mar 7, 2010, 19:44
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Editorial 101-3: Guns are not enough!
And what happens when the writer’s tongue, goosequill, pen or keyboard goes silent. In Canada, not much because we’ve had very little in the way of engaged poetry. In other countries it sometimes meant the death of a poet and also of liberty.
Jan 20, 2010, 16:51
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Advice to the Young? Line Up Your Ducks – Early!
In Canada and perhaps elsewhere, there is a dirty war being waged by certain poets and schools of poetry for control of the direction of the art, the aesthetic dominance. They tend to be “exclusivists” who want to be in charge of who is in or out of anthologies, on or off the festival circuit, and who is shortlisted or short-shrifted for the major awards.
Nov 4, 2009, 08:01
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Editorial 101-02
In the ongoing effort to improve this magazine, we have added a few new sections. We are fortunate that Elias Letelier, the “third Stitch” in our editorial cloth, is such a wizard at this digital technology. It is not only his wizardry that makes this magazine possible, but his belief in the necessity for such a magazine. In fact, he has been pushing for this magazine for a couple of years now. And it is his “working like a Third World peasant” (his expression) that has finally made it possible.
Aug 31, 2009, 20:07
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Carolyn Marie Souaid: Pay the Poets
The sad truth of the matter is that poets are underpaid and undervalued in our society, despite voices that resurface from time to time echoing Shelley’s declaration that they are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Aug 15, 2009, 11:51
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Editorial 101-01
By having a lively scene, we are more likely to get some great ones (poems and poets) rising to the top. After all, much compost is needed to grow a single flower. Also, in a multicultural society (which Quebec is, whether the pure laines of language and culture want to admit it or not) variety can only add to the health and vitality of the organism. Inbreeding only results in anemic and incestuous pale imitations of the real thing.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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Endre Farkas: The Gazette Doublespeak
However, the absentee slumlords of this paper are not interested in improving the establishment. They know the tenants have nowhere else to go for their morning sports, comics and puzzles. And nothing else to wrap their dead fish in.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:01
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