29 August 2009

Year of the Ox: 5th time

1st
■ Just getting started
■ Named after great-grandfather (mom’s grandfather) and my father
■ No plans

2nd
■ Grade 6 (road trip to Port Royal, Annapolis Royal, Balmoral Grist Mill, etc.) to grade 7: Bell Ayr Elementary to Jr High—same building
■ Photographing with a Kodak 126
■ Made decorative shield in metal shop/Industrial Arts @ Ellenvale Jr High

3rd
■ Intro to graphic tech, letterpress lead typesetting
■ First freelance income: operated graphic camera
■ Went to the Banff Centre (Poetry)
■ Broken Jaw Press started publishing: first a zine & poetry postcards
■ Co-founder of RePUBLICcover @ NSCAD
■ Skills Devo Grant (NS): my first grant
■ Started Bourbon Street Poetry Workshops (precursor to BS Poetry Society)

4th
■ Inter-arts performance recording & moderating my panel on poets & publishing @ League con in National Library, Ottawa
Open 24 Hours 5-poet anthology
Tribeca chapbook with above/ground press
■ Became editor of New Brunswick Knowledge Industry News
■ Photos in Against the Wall: The Art of Graffiti, UNB Arts Centre, Fredericton
■ Rcvd first Barry Award for Ashes, Paper & Beans rado show
■ Affiliated self & BJP with Canadian Copyright Licencing Agency

5th
■ 18-month gov job contact terminated
■ Applied to & was accepted into UNB grad school, Faculty of Ed
■ Apartment building fire forced evacuation
■ New home in same town
■ New jobs/contracts: LTTA Adjunct Artist; Grad TA, etc.

27 August 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 25 Aug 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

Zaffi Gousopoulos "My Name Is Eleni"

T. Anders Carson poetry CD Stain, tracks 1-17.

Fredericton Arts News

Queenie CD Perfect Road

Kyra Shaughnessy "belonging"

shirt: Jim Beam
loc: Dundonald construction zone
temp: 19°C
sound: Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion

21 August 2009

“Joe in the Balkans”

cover of „Putevi“, no 6–7The front cover of „Putevi“ (Roads), no 6–7, fresh from the printer . . . but you won't likely find it as your local newsstand. „Putevi“ is a literary journal published in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (BiH).

This issue includes an interview with me along with a selection of from the book that doesn’t close (Broken Jaw Press, 2008). The title is “Džo na Balkanu: (razgovor sa Džoom Blejdsom, kanadskim piscem, izvodacem i umjetikom)” (Joe in the Balkans: (interview with Joe Blades, Canadian writer, publisher and artist)). The interview, conducted by Tatjana Bijelić for „Putevi“, and the poems were translated into Serbian by her.

first page of my poetry section in „Putevi“ under the title _Iz knjige koja se ne zatvara_Tatjana Bijelić is a poet with two poetry collections plus a book of eight British poets translated by her. Tatjana teaches in the Filozofski fakultet Banja Luka where she has a “Canada Corner”. We met in 2005 at the Yugoslav Association of Canadian Studies conference at the University of Niš, Srbjia where I was a guest artist–presenter helping launch the three author–three book anthology Slike iz kanade: Tri kanadska pesnika (SKC Niš, 2005).

The English version of the “Joe in the Balkans” interview might have found a home in a forthcoming issue of 17 seconds ( : a journal of poetry and poetics ), rob mclennan, editor.

T-shirt: Blue Rodeo
loc: Dundonald construction zone
temp: 18°C
sound: Little Feat Waiting for Columbus

18 August 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 18 Aug 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

Joe Blades at the temp MCR in The FishbowlJoe Blades at the temp MCR in The Fishbowl.

Hugh Hazelton: "The Imperial Birthday Party"
Catherine Hunter: "Rush Hour"
Clive Holden: "Wind", Transcona", & "Babette"
bill bissett: "Opening Chant"
Stephen Cain: "Alpha Bites, A Primer", "Rhinoceros", & "Pome for Viktor Shklovsky"
W. Mark Sutherland "On Disecting the Larynx", "Hiroshima", & (with Nobuo Kuboto) "Lullaby for Kurt Schwitters"
Swifty Lazarus: "History is Dead (Read My Lips)"
Verbomotorhead: "Fat Summer"

12 August 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 11 Aug 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

Scottish poet Ian Stephen: “Dry Ground”, “Satellite Stone Circle”, “Calanais”, “Stonbergs”, & “Kinloch”

Hamilton poet Klyde Broox from a 2005 demo CD titled Literary Coup—Dub Poetry: “Literary Coup”, “Foreign Accent”, “Under the Influence of Dub”, “The Revolution has Changed”, “If Mars Attacks”, “Rant Against Otherness”, “Glimpses and Glances”, “Blues on the Rocks”.

Scottish poet Janet Paisley: “Sandra, In All Innocence”

American poet Michael Lalley: “Where Do We Belong”

Utah Phillips: “Unless We Are Free”

shirt: green v-neck
loc: construction zone
temp: 15°C
sound: Komatsu WA250PT “Toolcarrier” & Propagandhi Supporting Caste