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>Ashes, Paper & Beans: 29 12 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Lord Torvald Torgarson: Three Viking Ships

Joe Blades: Intro to Perfect Road

Valerie Mason-John: Perfect Road

Lord Torvald Torgarson: God Save Us from the Vikings

Amy Campbell: Metanoia (live)

Swifty Lazarus: West of an Idea

Allen Ginsberg: Howl

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 15 Dec 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Antonia Francis reading The True Meaning of Crumbfest, written by David Weals; audio book published by Rattling Books.

Clive Holden "Trains of Winnipeg"

Evalyn Parry "14 (for December 6)"

Lord Torvald Torgarson "Ragnarok almost Rolled"

Unsilent Night 2009

Unless I get caught in the squeeze play of a presentation and two new books’ delivery by Midland from the printer, I intend to participate in Unsilent Night’s 2009 performance parade in downtown Fredericton. I walked in last year’s performance. This year, my post-fire purchased new portable CD+cassette player is on the living room desk with the necessary C-cell batteries.

Gallery Connexion, Motion Ensemble and NBCCD present

Unsilent Night

an open procession for an unlimited number of boomboxes
by New York composer Phil Kline

FREE

Thursday, December 17 2009 meet at 3:30 sharp
at The Gallery of New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
457 Queen Street, Fredericton

A beautiful, mobile piece of ambient public art, UNSILENT NIGHT can be compared to a holiday caroling party—except that participants don’t sing. Instead, each carries an ordinary boombox playing a separate cassette or CD that becomes part of the piece.

In effect, the individual participants become single elements in a huge, moving sound system. Performed within the confines of city streets, Unsilent Night reverberates off the cars and buildings, resulting in a magnificent, drifting cloud of shimmering, echoing sound. The 43-minute piece includes sounds of chiming bells, choral voices and various electronic effects. (Kline cites Brian Eno and Charles Ives among his influences.) Kline has performed Unsilent Night in New York City every year since 1992. In San Francisco in 2006, some 400 people took part.

INFO
http://www.unsilentnight.com/
http://www.motionensemble.com

Bring your boombox!
Bring batteries!
Bring your iPod and speakers!
Dress for the weather!

CDs and cassettes will be provided
OR
To find out how to get free downloads, contact info@motionensemble.com

“Phil Kline’s boom box-chorale parade has become a bona fide holiday tradition. His luminous, shimmering wash of bell tones is one of the loveliest communal new-music experiences you’ll ever hear and it's never the same twice" Time Out New York

t: grey
loc: broken mapp desk
temp: -1°C
sound: The Flaming Lips Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 8 Dec 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

22 Nov 2009 Joe Blades interview with poet Catherine Owen.

Andrea Gibson from her 12 Nov 2009 UNB–STU Student Union Building Ballroom performance:

t: "Moose" by Red Crane
loc: CHSR MCR
temp: -8C
sound: Ashes, Paper & Beans

Broken Jaw Press blog

as if i don't have more than enough else on my plate/table i've started writing a promotional Broken Jaw Press blog to chat up the publications and the activities of our authors and artists.

Broken Jaw Press blog

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 1 Dec 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Andrea Gibson: "Wells to Fill", "Rush Hour", "See Through", & "The Moon Is A Kite"

Fredericton launch reading by Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía for Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press) edited by Robert Girón and published in México in 2009.

Fredericton launch reading by Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía for Speaking desde las heridas, edited by Claire Joysmith and published in 2009 with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, CISAN, Monterrey Tech & Whittier College.

Fredericton Arts News

luddites: "fireworks"

shirt: dk blue undershirt
loc: post-APB
temp: -6 C
sound: NCIS

day w/o Art

NB Author Portal coming soon

I spent a large part of today thinking about and answering interview and essay questions for a New Brunswick Authors Portal being created by the New Brunswick Public Library Service.

Apparently, I have been chosen somehow to be one of the inaugural one hundred to populate this forthcoming portal designed “to promote New Brunswick authors and literature and enhance the visibility of New Brunswick literary works available in public libraries throughout the province.”

There is much I do not know about this project so I do wonder how they are going to accurately compile all the other author and publishing information desired to make it happen. Maybe, later, there will be more questions, more requests for biographical and bibliographic information.

I have given them the information and images (author photo and most recent book’s cover) that they requested.

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 24 Nov 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Andrea Gibson: "Profit", & "I Do"

Zachariah Wells: "Riprap Reprise", "A Cargo Handler Howls", & "Forklift Operator Wanted".

Paul Marlowe's The Resident Member radio play as produced by Something Wicked.

Kwame Dawes, from his Emmy Award-winning HOPE: Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica, reading his poems "Hope's Hospice", "Coffee Break", "Nichol", "Live Up", "Making Ends Meet", "Unforgiveness", & "Portmore".

Fredericton Arts News.

bill bissett: "speeking ov environmental issews"

TWO BOOKS: HISTORY WITHOUT BORDERS

Organizer: Ibero-American Academy of Poetry (AIP)–Fredericton Chapter.

When: Nov. 28, 2009 from 2-4:30pm

Where: Board Room, Fredericton Public Library, 12 Carleton St., Fredericton, NB.

AIP–Fredericton is very proud to launch two anthologies of authors from North, Central and South America, published in various languages.

The first book is titled Speaking desde las heridas: Cibertestimonio Transfronterizos / Transborder (September 11, 2001-March 11, 2008)(Speaking from the wounds: Transborder Cibertestimonies), edited by Claire Joysmith and published in 2009 with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, CISAN, Monterrey Tech & Whittier College. 114 authors, from eight different countries participated in this compilation about what 9-11 meant to the individual authors. Contributions in Spanish are by celebrated poets such as Claribel Alegría, Marjorie Agosín, José Emilio Pacheco, Eliana Rivero, Wendolyn Lozano and the Fredericton Chapter’s own Director, Nela Rio (with a translation into English by award-winning translator and poet, Hugh Hazelton, an associate member of the Fredericton Chapter of the AIP). English poets included in the anthology are the following: Marilyn Lerch, Joy Harjo, Eve Packer, Thomas Collombat, among others. This book will be introduced by Sophie Lavoie, Chapter Secretary, and poems will be read in the original language in which they appear in the book. Audience members are invited to read poems from the anthology.

The second book is Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press) edited by Robert Girón and published in México in 2009. This anthology features poems in English, French, and Spanish has been awarded the National Best Book Award for Fiction & Literature: Anthology, 2009 by USA Book News and Best Poetry Anthology by The Montserrat Review (Spring 2009). Nela Rio will introduce the book and some of the important poets whose work it contains, Claire Joysmith (México) and Luis Alberto Ambroggio, among others. Readings will be in the original language and audience members will be encouraged to read from the collection.

This event is free and open to the public.

Odd Sundays reading: 22 Nov 2009

Double Bill at upcoming odd sundays at molly’s: Catherine Owen, Edmonton poet, and local poet, Joe Blades — Sunday, Nov 22, 2pm @ Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen Street, Fredericton. Thanks to the quiet generosity of our literary community, every event has a free draw for books.

Next Sunday, odd sundays at molly’s introduces you to the poetry and style of Catherine Owen, bassist, singer, tutor, editor, essayist, and poet, poet, poet [from Vancouver; living in Edmonton]. (See more about Owen at www.cathowenpoet.150m.com.) This event will also present the poetry of Joe Blades, local publisher, poet, man of letters.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22

2pm at Molly’s Coffee House

554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Fredericton writers and lovers of writing, come to odd sundays at molly’s to engage with literature, whether in the baby-first steps of some of the open set, or in the mature work of our published featured readers. We remind you that our good hosts, Molly and Darrell, are happier when each of us purchase a refreshment. Thank you for your attention. Contact allison calvern for more information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 17 Nov 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Andrea Gibson: For Eli

Live interview with Jo-Anne Elder, three-time nominee for the Governor General's Literary Award (Translation), this year for One (Goose Lane Editions) by Serge Patrice Thibodeau.

Catherine Owen: shall reading . . .

bill bissett, from his CD ths is erth, thees ar peopul
15 circus storeez
speeking uv environmental issews
pushing th wheel
paradox paradoches
extreem blu balls
Fredericton Arts News

Jr. Gone Wild: Swine Flew (song)

may be getting it . . .

Found this on a notice board at UNB on the weekend.

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Had the seasonal flu shot this past Friday . . .

I've had big, sore, muscle aches in back, neck and legs for days. It's been stressful working under a grant applic revision deadline while trying to read course materials, write papers, and prepare a presentation.

But this afternoon things slipped sideways and felt a little weird: my first finger, right hand, went numb-cold-almost asleep; then the numbness spread to fingers on both hands; my forehead got warm and the warmth spread to my ears and face—they're still hot and I was feeling waves of goosebumps on my arms and legs; my ears feel a little poppy; but I don't have a sore throat or cough and my fingers seem to have returned to almost normal.

Anyway, to be safe, I cancelled my attending a meeting tonight. Have had a herbal tea. Have other liquids at the ready, bedside, along with phone, cellphone and the notebook this was written on. We'll see how I feel in the morning . . .

Madawaska Weavers scarf

Sometimes gifts come from unexpected quarters for unexpected reasons—a blog post, for example . . .

In January 2007 I wrote about a bag full of handmade ties, mostly Madawaska Weavers’ ties, that I’d been given: brokenjoe.blogspot.com/2007/01/one-for-weavers.html. The ties, all nicely dry cleaned after the smoke, expecially, from the April apartment building fire, were returned to me on hangers with plastic bags overtop (along with almost all my other clothes, and a $1600 bill to come out of the insurance claim).

Late last month that Jan ’07 blog post received a comment about a Madawaska Weavers wool scarf (pictured above) that a woman had. She wondered if I would be interested in giving it a good home?

In my post office box’s bundle of oversized mail this week was a bubble envelope from Connecticut. Inside it was this beautiful, dark blue scarf with colour detailing at each end, about 22" x 76" in size, in excellent condition.

Wow! Thank you, Jessie! Your gifting is amazing. Thank you so much.

Tonight on APB (CHSR 97.9 FM), 7–8 pm

3 Nov, Tuesday, 7—8 pm. Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts, host Joe Blades on CHSR 97.9 FM: community—campus radio, Fredericton, NB.

New Brunswick filmmaker guests in advance of the NB Silver Wave Film Festival, 5-8 November 2009:

Tony Merzetti—General SWFF; Pierre Huard, BronweN, Britney Sparrow, Jillian Acreman and Tim Rayne.

Visit swfilmfest.com for festival info and a downloadable program.

Inauguración oficial de la Biblioteca

Thursday evening, 29 Oct 2009, was the Inauguración oficial de la Biblioteca, housed in Carleton Hall Rm 303, on the UNB-Fredericton Campus.
The Biblioteca/library of the Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía has been given shelves in the Culture and Language Studies Seminar Room.
I arrived late, as things were winding down, without camera because I'd just been in 2h 50 min class further up the hill. Had a glass of wine and a biscuit. Went back yesterday and took a few photos of the Inauguracíon's Exposición de Poemas Póster.

Nela had drawn in poems from other chapters of the AIP and poets in Montevideo, Madrid, Washington, Montréal, Barcelona and elsewhere.

The Inauguración oficial de la Biblioteca started with a session of the NB Latino Association's book club. Other people, especially Carlos Morales, have photographed the event the the people in attendance for the Capítulo's documentation.

Ashes, Paper & Beans:

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Monty Python: “Bookshop”

Live interview with Yolande House, Mary Kuna & Jeanne Chiasson for NaNoWriMo 2009

Kyra Shaunessy: “Made in Canada”
ludites: “fireworks”

NaNoWriMo cometh!

Are you mad enough to write a novel;
to write a novel in one month?
Have you been told that you're full of it?
Do you have 50,000 words to get out of your system?

Well . . .

NaNoWriMo may be for you

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 20 Okt 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Monty Python: “Wide World of Novel Writing”

Live guests: Corrina Chong & Jeremy Whiston—two of Qwerty magazine’s co-managing editors—in discussion on this UNB English Dept. grad students magazine; the 21 Oct launch for issue 24; their contest; the QWERTY Reads series; and much more.

Zach Wells: “Riprap Reprise”, & “A Cargo Handler Howls”

lisa b.: “hope’s bicycle”

Al Purdy, from his CD Necropsy of Love (Winnipeg: Cyclops Press) with interview fragments and the poems “At the Quinte Hotel”, “Homemade Beer”, “Over the Hills in the Rain My Dear”, “When I Sat Down to Play the Piano”, “Concerning Ms. Atwood”, “Funeral”, & “The Stone Bird”

Fredericton Arts News

Bruce McRae “Like As If”

Found "Photo"

Found face down @ 1:30 pm, today, 20 Oct 2009, in the remnants of a small copse of woods beside the new(er) service entrance road/drive to the Sodexo operation in the UNB•STU Student Union Building off Pacey Drive, UNB-Fredericton campus. Obvious who is in the photo: Elliott Schurman Coles. The question is how/why did he lose his ID card? Where is he now?

Sofia & Nis pics (just a few)

Shopping as an en route pastime at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris.

Joe, in Terminal F, waiting and waiting for the connecting flight.

@ the opening of the 5th International conference of Central European Canadianists, in the grand Alba of Sofia University, Bulgaria.

@ Panel session C3: Literature 2, Alexander's Ballroom, Radisson Hotel. Chair, Madeleine Danova (2nd from L); panelists Galina Avramova, Dimiter Alexandrov, Vesna Lopicic,and Ana Olos.

Looking out of Flannagan's Irish Bistro/Pub, Radisson Hotel, across Narodno Sabranie, Sofia.

Dancers, conference delegates, and other customers @ "Veselo selo" restaurant, Sofia, Saturday night party with big food and musical entertainment.

Jelena looking at the current issue of Air France's magazine.

A rainy view of Nis in southern Serbia.

it does not feel like 6 pm . . .

(because ici it is midnight)
and this does not look like kansas

a footie field-long johnny walker
electric sign on a ridge or hillside
i cannot see in taxi darkness

mcdhell 0-24s on both sides
of the divided highway

at least this western geek
was comp'd wireless that works
is not biting the heads
off chickens (not yet)

all day wasted in terminal f
of charles de gaulle airport
with nothing there but inter-
national flight connectors
and duty-free shopping

tomorrow will be different:
different coins & stamps
rakia i nazddrava, 3AXAP

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 13 Oct 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind: The Rise & Reckless Fall of Lenny Bruce, Chapters 6–7.

Evalyn Parry: “Bottle This!”, “The Anne in My Mind”, and “Love in the Greater Toronto Area Takes Public Transportation”

Bruce McRae: “Bookworm”, “Cries of the Innocents”, “Is a Poem Fiction”, and “Last Night”

Writing Hurts Like Hell: two student writers in Biff Mitchell’s workshop/class live on the show, Kari Haines and Nikki Thériault, discussing fan-fiction and the course’s writing exercises with a brief reading by each of a dream piece.

Kyra Shaughnessy: “Admit”

T: Ruminator Bookstore, Press, Review
loc: predawn manoeuvre
temp: 0°C
sound: Michael Franti Songs from the Front Porch

storm sewer situation

oily rainbow of some petroleum product
atop curbside rainwater and pavement
at the corner of york and brunswick
streets in downtown fredericton

into a storm sewer = into the st john river

i've a problem with that

some would/will say this
isn't a major spill

but add up all the little ones
in this city
or along this river

how much is spilled?
how much is too much?

walking leaves less
of a footprint
than the manufacture
of my bicycle
or the camera used
to photograph this spill
or the computer used
to post this blog
or the electricity needed
to suspend the web
around the world

Joe Blades & “crow” @ MCAF

Group Poem for a Barry Colpitts Folk Art Crow


Love could be transferred by black crow feet too.
Every morning a crow sings on a tree
Grow give me hope
Sky is unlimited. I’d like to fly as crow
There is something above sky
This is my dream
Owls are traditionally thought to be wise.
Baby, don’t worry, I can feed you now.
Crow—flapping—cawing—mouth & eyes wide
Why is crow looking down instead of looking up: sky is overhead?
An alone crow flies. His tears drop in the sky.
This is a bird who lives everywhere because crows fight
with everything and won for life and this an example for us.
Crow is avarice       I want to sail like crow       I just want to survive myself.

—Written 7 October 2009 during a Random Acts of Poetry presentation by Joe Blades at the Multicultural Association of Fredericton’s Level 3B English Second Language class by Sungoh Jang, Feridoon Farahi, Dac Phong Le, Yohwan Cheon, Sonia Kyunghee Kim, Iran Jahansouz, Marinela Dragos, Sungbum Lee, Manisha Varma, Ke Zhang, Peggy MacIntosh (ESL instructor) and Joe Blades.

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 6 Oct 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Kyra Shaughnessy: “Belonging”

First live guest was Katherine Adams co-owner of Café Sweet Belgian Desire, Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte St, Fredericton who discussed the café, its food, and café culture in Belgium and, hopefully, here in Fredericton. Student specials (with ID) on Tuesdays in October 2009.

Hilary Peach: “Tattoo” & “Loretta”
Fredericton Arts News
Zachariah Wells: “A Cargo Handler Howls”

In the second half of the show Peter Toner (STU Anthropology) & Mark McLaughlin (UNB PhD student, History) discussed the just-published book Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick (NBASRDC) and St Thomas University’s New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre.

Evalyn Parry: “Once in a Blue Moon”

t: denim-look [a t-shirt I’ve had since the mid 1970s]
loc: APB “Freeze!”
temp: 10°C
sound: NCIS

Random Acts of Poetry here!

They've started! Could have started them after midnight while at Mark Jarman's house having "coffee", as Ross called it, [in reality a selection of Pump House and Propeller ales] after the final readings of UNB's sixth annual Poetry Weekend. Could have read to some of the other poets there but didn't have my full RAoP kit with me.

Was on Information Morning, CBC Fredericton, an hour ago and that's where I committed my first Random Acts of Poetry for the week/year. Now I'm have my first coffee and am preparing to "Paint the Town with Poetry"!

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 29 September 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Guests: Marysville singer Jen Moulton (see CMT Karaoke), and Jim Lavoie, publicist.

Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind: The Rise & Reckless Fall of Lenny Bruce, Chapters 4–5.

Fredericton Arts News.

shirt: green
loc: post-APB
temp: 14°c
sound: NCIS

Džo to Bulgaria

Looks like I’ll be hopping the big pond (again) in a few weeks . . . with a little travel help from UNB.

Going to Sofia, Bulgaria to present a paper and give a poetry reading at “Managing Diversity and Social Cohesion: the Canadian Experience”, the Central European Association for Canadian Studies’ 5th Triennial International Conference.

A first: I haven’t been to Bulgaria before though I know one of the organizers and several presenters from a 2005 conference in Niš where I also partied with a Bulgarian theatre troupe. My Balkan adventures continue . . .

Don’t know how the organizers have done it but conference attendees are being accommodated three nights at the 5-star Radisson Blu Hotel in downtown Sofia, opposite the National Assembly, for less than the hotel’s posted one-night rate.

Most of the conference presentations and activities are to happen at Sofia University « St Kliment Ohridski » . . . up to four simultaneous panels.

The keynote speakers are Professor Lise Gauvin, Université de Montréal; Professor Thibault Martin, Université du Québec en Outaouais; Professor Keith Banting, Queens University, Kingston; and Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam, University of Toronto.