Essays
Industrial Roots: Listening in Windsor, Ontario
When weeds grow through concrete you understand something although as a six-year-old child I wasn’t sure what. Being led by...
Ecopoetics and the Radical Lyric
The project of engaging with “ecopoetics” always resonates with that part of myself that wants art to be civil, to...
The Integrated Life
Although there are certainly relationships that rise above this standing reserve mentality (I’m thinking of my beloved bicycle or maybe...
Figure and Ground: An Ecopoetic Travelogue
July 1: Canada Day: it’s interesting how you can brag We stop at the Terry Fox Memorial outside Thunder Bay...
Formally Speaking
Last year I led a poetry workshop with a group of about 20 older and mostly retired people, nearly all...