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Last Updated: Mar 11th, 2010 - 09:11:33 |
Commentaries
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Soapbox
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
Commentaries
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Soapbox
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
News
PQ Call for Submissions
Deadline March 20, 2010. April is National Poetry Month. Each year, at this time, poetry blooms. All across the country, from Bonavista to Vancouver Island, from Nunavut to the Canada / U.S. border, poets will be taking to the streets, bars, cafés, bookstores, libraries, and classrooms to recite, emote, declaim and perform their poems for you and me.
Mar 3, 2010, 10:06
News
Möe Clark first Leonard Cohen Poet-In Residence at Westmount High.
"The Foundation For Public Poetry is proud to have Möe Clark as our inaugural Poet-In-Residence, a residency established to honour Leonard Cohen on his 75th birthday," says Jack Locke, president of the foundation. “She will give the students of Westmount High the kind of positive encouragement that poet Irving Layton gave to Leonard and countless others.”
Feb 19, 2010, 09:37
News
The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Poetry Quebec supports this initiative and ecourages all its readers to participate.
Feb 5, 2010, 12:35
Articles
A Moslem Missive to a Jewish Friend
I say, Israel farts in the face of the Lord and in the face of the whole world all the time by rubbing it in raw and gloating and hectoring gracelessly thus: we want the Arabs and the Palestinians and the Moslems to know that they are a defeated people; we want them to feel defeat, disgrace, dishonour, degradation, humiliation in the marrow of their bones; we want them to eat bilious bitterness and rancid resentment for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner every day of their lousy lives!
Jan 25, 2010, 22:27
News
Condolences
The Editors of Poetry Quebec would like to express our condolences to the families who have lost family members and friends in the recent natural disaster in Haiti.
Jan 23, 2010, 08:56
Articles
101 Reasons for Flogging, Raping, Stoning & Killing Women
I collected these over the years. They are from around the world and from throughout time; from way past to the way of the present.
Mar 8, 2010, 06:56
Poems
Claudia Morrison: In Somalia
In Somalia, a thirteen-year-old girl / was gang-raped by six men. / Found guilty by a Sharia court, / the girl was buried in sand up to her neck / and stoned to death.
Mar 7, 2010, 20:59
News
Wire No More
Julie Mahfood has just been notified by the, owner of Cafe Aurora, that WIRE may no longer be held at the Cafe.
Mar 7, 2010, 20:52
News
Poets in The Griffintown Cultural Corridor
Poets in The Griffintown Cultural Corridor. Saturday February 27 2010. 1pm until 2am. New City Gas Co. 140-141 Ann Street, 3rd Floor
Admission Free
Feb 5, 2010, 15:23
News
First Leonard Cohen Poet-In-Residence
"The Foundation For Public Poetry is proud to have Möe as our inaugural Poet-In-Residence, a residency established to honour Leonard Cohen on his 75th birthday," says Jack Locke, president of the foundation. "She will give the students of Westmount High the kind of positive encouragement that poet Irving Layton gave to Leonard and countless others."
Jan 29, 2010, 08:36
Interviews
Robyn Sarah Spotlighted
For me, poems usually begin with a phrase I like the sound of. I call these “tinder words”. They come to me from nowhere—sometimes they occur as part of a letter I’m writing or a journal entry, or in conversation; sometimes they just come into my head and I jot them down.
Jan 27, 2010, 11:18
Poems
Officer Cadet Maxwell Hazledine: Poem
here in my chair//drinking my vodka//thinking to myself about life//the young, the old//the unwise,
Jan 25, 2010, 21:37
Poems
Officer Cadet Timothy Ingram: 2 Poems
In the jungle, fleeing like vicious thugs,//We fled from our Victims, screams for reprieve//Rang from our throats. Run! Atop hordes of bugs,//We’re caught.
Jan 25, 2010, 21:33
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