Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.
Al Purdy poem: "At the Quinte Hotel".
Women in Film and Television panel: Gretchen Kelbaugh (host); Ashley McKenzie; Ruth Lawrence; Jillian Acreman. Recorded by Joe Blades 9 Nov @ the 2012 NB Film, Television, & Media Industry Summit, Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium, Fredericton, NB.
Writing and arts PSAs.
APB Book Review: Jump the Devil by Richard Rathwell, 8th House Publishing, Montreal.
02 January 2013
31 December 2012
APB Book Review: Jump the Devil
by Joe Blades, Ashes, Paper, & Beans (CHSR 97.9 FM)
Jump the Devil
Richard Rathwell
Montreal, QC: 8th House Publishing
127 pp, ISBN 978-1-926716-11-4, $18.88, 2012
Jump the Devil is a work of fiction, a novella, narrated by interrelated characters in seriously dysfunctional relationships. The mostly internal narratives are by ex-peacekeeper soldiers with secrets, corrupt doctors, angry old men and women, abusers, a young woman trying to break free from her family’s restrictive expectations and religion. None of the narrators are all-clean or all-good. Many of them are obsessive about something—whether philandering, locking one’s husband in the basement, journalling, hating, daughter jealousy, preying on local women, skin bags of ears, social status, class, brand fashion status, etcetera. Their stories weave together like lines of traffic, or convoys on ruble-strewn streets moving too fast for their safety. The reader feels the roller-coaster hurtle of the narrators in their stories. Rathwell writes an engaging and convincing prose set in the tumultuous world around us. Some the book is set in part in England—where Rathwell lives—but it could be anywhere “Western”. It is also set in Central Africa and Egypt—with every place feeling disorientating and troubling to the various narrators—foreign to their upbringing—with swirling undercurrents of racial tension, hostility, and confusion. There is palpable violence throughout the book—with possible suicide vests, alleged past roles in massacres, so-called democratic uprisings, colonists, insurrectionists, rapists, terrorists, redemptionists, and revolutionaries engaged in war, genocide, revenge, rebellion, and fights for freedom nationally and personally. The reader or, as Ted Hughes put it, the "coauthor" is challenged by these labels/identities and where one stands in relation to other people and events in the world. With their own assumptions and ignorance, the reader is left haunted without ability to conclude these increasingly unresolved stories.
—Joe Blades is the award-winning producer–host of Ashes, Paper, & Beans broadcast weekly, since 1995, on CHSR 97.9 FM in Fredericton, NB. He is an artist, educator, and writer with seven published poetry collections—three of which have also been translated and published in Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina.
Jump the Devil
Richard Rathwell
Montreal, QC: 8th House Publishing
127 pp, ISBN 978-1-926716-11-4, $18.88, 2012
Jump the Devil is a work of fiction, a novella, narrated by interrelated characters in seriously dysfunctional relationships. The mostly internal narratives are by ex-peacekeeper soldiers with secrets, corrupt doctors, angry old men and women, abusers, a young woman trying to break free from her family’s restrictive expectations and religion. None of the narrators are all-clean or all-good. Many of them are obsessive about something—whether philandering, locking one’s husband in the basement, journalling, hating, daughter jealousy, preying on local women, skin bags of ears, social status, class, brand fashion status, etcetera. Their stories weave together like lines of traffic, or convoys on ruble-strewn streets moving too fast for their safety. The reader feels the roller-coaster hurtle of the narrators in their stories. Rathwell writes an engaging and convincing prose set in the tumultuous world around us. Some the book is set in part in England—where Rathwell lives—but it could be anywhere “Western”. It is also set in Central Africa and Egypt—with every place feeling disorientating and troubling to the various narrators—foreign to their upbringing—with swirling undercurrents of racial tension, hostility, and confusion. There is palpable violence throughout the book—with possible suicide vests, alleged past roles in massacres, so-called democratic uprisings, colonists, insurrectionists, rapists, terrorists, redemptionists, and revolutionaries engaged in war, genocide, revenge, rebellion, and fights for freedom nationally and personally. The reader or, as Ted Hughes put it, the "coauthor" is challenged by these labels/identities and where one stands in relation to other people and events in the world. With their own assumptions and ignorance, the reader is left haunted without ability to conclude these increasingly unresolved stories.
—Joe Blades is the award-winning producer–host of Ashes, Paper, & Beans broadcast weekly, since 1995, on CHSR 97.9 FM in Fredericton, NB. He is an artist, educator, and writer with seven published poetry collections—three of which have also been translated and published in Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina.
19 December 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 19 Dec 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
2012-11-18 Odd Sundays at Molly's reading featuring a short story, "Drugged", by Kellie Underhill (Miramichi, NB) & poetry by Emily Skov-Neilsen (Saint John, NB). Recorded by Joe Blades, Fredericton, NB.
Neil Simpson: "The Other Yellow Bird"
Diane Reid: "Summer Preserves", and "Daughter"
Andrew Spencer: "English Professor"
Zorras: "Head Games"
2012-11-18 Odd Sundays at Molly's reading featuring a short story, "Drugged", by Kellie Underhill (Miramichi, NB) & poetry by Emily Skov-Neilsen (Saint John, NB). Recorded by Joe Blades, Fredericton, NB.
Neil Simpson: "The Other Yellow Bird"
Diane Reid: "Summer Preserves", and "Daughter"
Andrew Spencer: "English Professor"
Zorras: "Head Games"
05 December 2012
Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 5 Dec 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Noah Richler: Is Canadian Multilateralism Dead? (The 12th Annual Dominick S. Graham Lecture in War and Society, The Gregg Centre for the Study of War & Society, UNB, 14 Nov 2012). Introductions by Mark Milner and Suzanne Alexander. Recorded by Joe Blades.
Noah Richler: Is Canadian Multilateralism Dead? (The 12th Annual Dominick S. Graham Lecture in War and Society, The Gregg Centre for the Study of War & Society, UNB, 14 Nov 2012). Introductions by Mark Milner and Suzanne Alexander. Recorded by Joe Blades.
03 December 2012
Essay in new eBook about Nela Rio
An essay of mine, "Publishing Nela Rio in Canada", is included in this new eBook all about Fredericton author Nela Rio and her writings both poetry and fiction. The eBook was launched November 2012 in Toronto, Ontario. Mine is the only contribution in English in this mostly in Spanish publication. The book came out of a conference on Nela Rio's work that I prepared for but was unable to attend: del Segundo Simposio de la serie Autores hispanocanadienses organizado por la Red Cultural Hispánica, que celebramos el 15 de mayo de 2008 la obra de la poeta, escritora, artista, investigadora y promotora cultural Nela Rio, en la sede de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Gatineau QC. There's a link below to the eBook PDF.
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Nela Rio
Escritura en foco: la mirada profunda
Edición dirigida por Gabriela Etcheverry
Qantati eBooks
Ottawa, Canadá
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CONTENIDO
Prefacio 4
PRÓLOGO
Hugh Hazelton: El amor como fuer za vital en la obra de Nela Rio 7
AUTOBIOGRAFÍA
Nela Rio: LAS ORILLAS DE LOS RELÁMPAGOS 25
ENTREVISTA
Isabel Díez Serrano: UNIENDO VOCES: LOS PROYECTOS CULTURALES DE NELA RIO 29
Andréia Alves Pires: CARLOTA, TODAVÍA, LA HECHICERA: CUANDO LA ANCESTRALIDAD ENCANTÓ EL ENVEJECER 49
Luis Alberto Ambroggio: REFERENTES DEL EXILIO EN LA POESÍA DE NELA RIO 62
María Fernanda Arentsen: MÁS ALLÁ DEL SILENCIO: LA RETERRITORIALIZACIÓN EN LA OBRA DE NELA RIO 81
Joe Blades: Publishing Nela Rio in Canada 96
Natalia Crespo: Nela Rio. La luna, Tango, siempre la luna 104
Eunice Doman Myers: RESOUNDING SILENCES: EN LAS NOCHES QUE DESVISTEN OTRAS NOCHES 108
Zulma Fraga: NELA RIO, LA PALABRA ENTRE MÁRGENES 131
Alicia Galván: Viudez, Nela Rio, y aquellas mujeres parteras en mi alumbramiento 141
Zheyla Henriksen: ELEMENTOS MÍTICOS-ERÓTICOS EN LA OBRA DE LA ARGENTINA NELA RIO 153
Claire Joysmith: NELA RIO: EL FLUIR HACIA LA PAZ TRANSFRONTERIZA 190
Sintia E. Molina: VOZ Y DIÁLOGO: JULIA Y NELA 197
Araceli Otamendi: IDENTIDAD EN LA OBRA DE NELA RIO 215
Elena Palmero González: LA OBRA DE LEONOR DE OVANDO EN LA POESÍA DE NELA RIO: UN DIÁLOGO POÉTICO EN EL TIEMPO 225
Lady Rojas Benavente: EL ESPACIO DE LA LUZ (2004) CUENTOS Y POEMAS DE NELA RIO 238
Juan Ruiz de Torres: LA “MIRADA OBLICUA” EN LA POESÍA DE NELA RIO 255
Alejandro Saravia: Alg unas consideraciones en torno a la poesía de Nela Rio 274
Tamara Schürch: La voz de la imaginación en Túnel de proa verde de Nela Rio: imágenes de dolor y esperan za 293
Nora Strejilevich: Memoria testimonial y mandato ético en la poesía de Nela Rio 312
Marta Raquel Zabaleta: Trauma y escritura de vida de mujeres en el quehacer poético de Nela Rio: una lectura involucrada 329
BIBLIOGRAFÍA Y HONORES 347
ARTE VISUAL 354
SELECCIÓN DE POEMAS Y CUENTOS DE NELA RIO 380
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© 2012, por Qantati eBooks
Ottawa, Canadá
Etcheverry, Gabriela (Dir. de edición)
Nela Rio: Escritura en foco: la mirada profunda
eISBN: 978-09881086-5-3
Cuadro de la portada: Ana Maria Pavela
Diseño de la portada: Jillian Lim
01 December 2012
Day With/out Art 2012
For years, since the late 1980s, I have recognized 1 Dec as Day Without Art as a day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. Like many other things it seems the day's approach changed, in 1997, and those changes finally caught up with me.
"red album + red square" (acrylic on mixed media, 2012) is my contribution, made this week, to the Charlotte Street Arts Centre's Day With(out) Art Event/Exhibition of works created by volunteer artists from their ArtReach program.
According to artist WhiteFeather, "Artists will select a pre-existing artwork (painting, cross-stitch, etc—something that can hang on a wall) and paint the entire thing over with red paint. Many abandoned artworks can be purchased for extremely cheap [...]. The idea is to completely ‘red-wash’ the pre-existing work, in order to support the theme of Day Without Art, while raising awareness for AIDSNB, using the colour that symbolizes the AIDS awareness movement. The results will be red works with enhanced texture, that will show the ghost of the original underneath. Conceptually, this also ties in with the theme of loss due to AIDS, as well as the idea of funding cuts to the arts/health and the disappearance of art." To that I add recognition and support for the Québec student movement.
The exhibit will be in the Charlotte Street Arts Centre's Galerie Penny Gallery, 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, NB, in Dec 2012 (and possibly longer).
P.S. It's also a fundraiser ... Reserve bidding starts at $75
28 November 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 28 Nov 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Yves Engler, author of The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy (Fernwood Books), talk at St Thomas University on 18 Nov 2012. Recorded by Joe Blades.
Lone Cloud: Teresa Marshall poem "Is That Too Much?"
Yves Engler, author of The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy (Fernwood Books), talk at St Thomas University on 18 Nov 2012. Recorded by Joe Blades.
Lone Cloud: Teresa Marshall poem "Is That Too Much?"
21 November 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 21 nov 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
John Ashbury: Woodbury Poetry Room reading 1963.
Brian Carpenter @ Chapterhouse, Philidelphia, PA, 9-13-08.
Poet Erin Mouré on Charles Bernstein's Close Listening, 2-21-10.
John Ashbury: Woodbury Poetry Room reading 1963.
Brian Carpenter @ Chapterhouse, Philidelphia, PA, 9-13-08.
Poet Erin Mouré on Charles Bernstein's Close Listening, 2-21-10.
writer’s guild agm
a writing writer
not a wrote ... i
bused banff to calgary
for writers’ guild of alberta
annual general meeting
with war correspondent
compact typewriter
in my daypack
and sat on the floor
before floor to ceiling
windows overlooking
grassland hills to write
to typewrite when not
in meetings of the
so new organisation
with its book lovers
never go to bed alone
buttons coined by
a woman who said
"my husband is
an accountant"
while i meet writers
from all over alberta
decades later
in dimitri’s restaurant
downtown fredericton
new brunswick bob
(robert on his many
books) kroetsch tells me
at a table of unb english
grad students and profs
that i’m so not one of
he remembered and
never forgot the sight
of me and my typewriter
writing in front of
that wall of windows—
my back to other writers
too busy meeting
18 November 2012
Odd Sundays reading: 18 Nov 2012
odd sundays at molly’s, Fredericton’s longest-running, semi-monthly, poetry-reading series, taking place this coming Sunday afternoon, with writer Kellie Underhill from Miramichi, and poet Emily Skov-Nielsen, from Saint John. Joe Blades will be emceeing the event, and all are welcome.
Sunday, November 18, 2PM
Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen Street, Fredericton, NB
Featured readers: Emily Skov-Nielsen & Kellie Underhill
Open Set - Book Draw - Conversations
KELLIE UNDERHILL has been the Editor of Bread 'n Molasses magazine since its inception in 2003. She studied Journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON with a particular focus on newspaper copy editing and worked as a freelance journalist for several years with her work appearing in The Miramichi Leader, The Moncton Times-Transcript, The Brunswick Business Journal, The Atlantic Chamber Journal and The Reader magazine. During her time as a freelancer, she also did public relations writing for clients including the New Brunswick Community College in Miramichi.
EMILY SKOV-NIELSEN is a recent UNB graduate living in Saint John, New Brunswick. She has given a number of poetry readings in-and-around Saint John and has had work published in The Antigonish Review. She was also this year's recipient of the Dr. Anne Compton Creative Writing Prize in Poetry. Recently she has returned from an intensive week-long writers' retreat where she had the pleasure and privilege of working with poet, Don McKay.
Bring your ears; bring your literary sensibilities; bring three minutes of your own writing for the open set. hope to see you at the next odd sundays event, December 2, with THREE great readers (alphabetically): Joan Clark, and Jane Tims.
Odd Sundays: allison calvern, 459-1436, acalvern @ nbnet.nb.ca
Sunday, November 18, 2PM
Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen Street, Fredericton, NB
Featured readers: Emily Skov-Nielsen & Kellie Underhill
Open Set - Book Draw - Conversations
KELLIE UNDERHILL has been the Editor of Bread 'n Molasses magazine since its inception in 2003. She studied Journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON with a particular focus on newspaper copy editing and worked as a freelance journalist for several years with her work appearing in The Miramichi Leader, The Moncton Times-Transcript, The Brunswick Business Journal, The Atlantic Chamber Journal and The Reader magazine. During her time as a freelancer, she also did public relations writing for clients including the New Brunswick Community College in Miramichi.
EMILY SKOV-NIELSEN is a recent UNB graduate living in Saint John, New Brunswick. She has given a number of poetry readings in-and-around Saint John and has had work published in The Antigonish Review. She was also this year's recipient of the Dr. Anne Compton Creative Writing Prize in Poetry. Recently she has returned from an intensive week-long writers' retreat where she had the pleasure and privilege of working with poet, Don McKay.
Bring your ears; bring your literary sensibilities; bring three minutes of your own writing for the open set. hope to see you at the next odd sundays event, December 2, with THREE great readers (alphabetically): Joan Clark, and Jane Tims.
Odd Sundays: allison calvern, 459-1436, acalvern @ nbnet.nb.ca
15 November 2012
Julie Comeau @ Westminster Books
14 November 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 14 Nov 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Christian Bök: "Ubu Hubbub"
Live interview with Kellie Underhill, editor, Bread'n'Molasses
Stephen Cain: "Alpha Bites"
Christian Bök: "Ubu Hubbub"
Live interview with Kellie Underhill, editor, Bread'n'Molasses
Stephen Cain: "Alpha Bites"
07 November 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 7 Nov 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Tchitala Kamba: "Bandalungwa Makelele"
Live interview with New Brunswick filmmakers Bunthivy Nou and Tim Rayne about their filmwork and involvement in this year's Silver Wave Film Festival.
Victor Tomiczek: "Picket Line"
Tchitala Kamba: "Bandalungwa Makelele"
Live interview with New Brunswick filmmakers Bunthivy Nou and Tim Rayne about their filmwork and involvement in this year's Silver Wave Film Festival.
Victor Tomiczek: "Picket Line"
31 October 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 31 Oct 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Live interview with Jillian Ackerman and Ryan Griffth about their films in this year's Silver Wave Film Festival.
Phlip Arima: "Human Drag"
Zorras: "Nest", "In the Details", & "If"
Live interview with Jillian Ackerman and Ryan Griffth about their films in this year's Silver Wave Film Festival.
Phlip Arima: "Human Drag"
Zorras: "Nest", "In the Details", & "If"
24 October 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 24 Oct 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Cory Redekop: reading an excerpt from Husk (ECW Press).
Andrea Gibson: For Eli. Profit. I Do. Wells. Rush Hour. See Through.
Cory Redekop: reading an excerpt from Husk (ECW Press).
Andrea Gibson: For Eli. Profit. I Do. Wells. Rush Hour. See Through.
18 October 2012
@ UNB's 58 Fall Convocation
17 October 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 17 Oct 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Sean Dunbar @ Speaker's Hour, Ludlow Hall, UNB: turning law into beer
Sean Dunbar @ Speaker's Hour, Ludlow Hall, UNB: turning law into beer
10 October 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 10 Oct 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
Patricia Smith: "Spinning Till You Get Dizzy"
Live interview with Julie Comeau, Fredericton author of "Never Give Up!" The Inspiring Journey of a Real Life Survivor and Jim Lavoie, publicist.
Christopher Stewart: "Beat the Drum"
Patricia Smith: "Spinning Till You Get Dizzy"
Live interview with Julie Comeau, Fredericton author of "Never Give Up!" The Inspiring Journey of a Real Life Survivor and Jim Lavoie, publicist.
Christopher Stewart: "Beat the Drum"
04 October 2012
Drachen
Drachen is a group show, an international mail art exhibition, I have several works in right now (until 3 Feb 2013) in Lindenfels, Deutschland.
03 October 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: 3 Oct 2012
Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM, http://www.chsrfm.ca/ Fredericton, NB.
On 27 Sept 2012, Angela Davis spoke at Mt Alison University, Sackville, NB.
On 27 Sept 2012, Angela Davis spoke at Mt Alison University, Sackville, NB.
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