Found photo du jour

Found face down at 12:27 pm, 24 Nov 2013, between curb and sidewalk opposite Tingley's Plaza, Dundonald Street, Fredericton, NB.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 20 Nov 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Deborah and Will van den Hoonaard's double look launch with Gail MacDonald, emcee, and introductions by Tom Parkhill and Kelly Bronson

"The Magic Glasses Story" written by Cynthia Sharp and Drew Taylor, narrated by Drew Taylor.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 13 Nov 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Silver Wave Film Festival Industry Series 2013: Feature Filmmaking with All The Wrong Reasons. Tim Storey, moderator; Gia Milani, NB filmmaker, director, writer; Tony Whalen, producer; Denis Theriault, actor.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 6 Nov 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Interviews with New Brunswick Filmmaker in Silver Wave Film Festival 2013
Britany Sparrow: Chopsticks

Frae Wordplay, Shetland's 12th annual book festival (2013): Book launch for From Shore to Shoormal (Broken Jaw Press) written by Donna Allard and Nall Hall with readings by Nat Hall and Joe Blades. [Audio file of whole reading here: From Shore to Shoormal launch].

Sean virgo: "Kareimanuae"

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 30 Oct 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Interviews with two New Brunswick filmmakers in Silver Wave Film Festival 2013:
John McNutt: Oznaberg: The Walking Felt
Rebecca Ham: The Boss: A Person of National Significance

Frae [from] Wordplay: Shetland's 12th annual book festival (2013):
Marsali Taylor
Christian S. Tait
& Joe Blades
[Audio file of whole reading here: From Shore to Shoormal launch]

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 23 Oct 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Sean Virgo: "Delivered by Hand"

Paula Belina: "turtle backs (p.e.i.)", "un morceau du milles-pattes"

Lemm Sissay: live at Wordplay, Shetland's annual book festival.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 16 Oct 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

from UNB Poetry Weekend 2013:
Ross Leckie, emcee
Julie Cameron Gray
Katia Grubisic
Triny Findley
Jeffery Donaldson
Jeremy Dodds
Nick Thran
Susan Glickman

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 9 Oct 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

From UNB Poetry Weekend 2013:
Ross Leckie, emcee
Steven Pryce
Carmelita McGrath
Catherine Greenwood
David Seymour + Sarah (?)
Julie Bruck
M. Travis Lane
Sharon McCartney
& Sue Gillis

Found photo du jour

Found 12:05 pm, 3 October 2013, on the grass strip between curb and sidewalk outside the Atrium of the UNB Student Union Building at 21 Pacey Drive, Fredericton, NB.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 2 Oct 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Ian Steven, from Lewis, Shetland, with two stories: "Uist Selkie", "Ailien Duinn"

246th New Shetlander magazine CD (Yule 2008) (no track list). For text on the CD, visit 246-yule-2008

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 25 Sept 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Westside Writers Group anthology launch in Wordplay book festival, recorded 29 Aug 2013 at Mareel in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. Intro by Donald Anderson, Literary Officer, Shetland Arts Development Agency. The writers who read include Doug Forest, Marsali Taylor, Beth Fullarton, Matthew Nicholson, Christian S. Tait, Nat Hall, and many more.

Found photo du jour

Found at the Fredericton Transit bus stop beside 414 York St building, Chestnut Complex, Fredericton, NB, at 7:54 am, 23 August 2013.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 21 Aug 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Scottish poet Hugh McMillan: "Surprise Attack" and other poems

Newfoundland's Janis Spence with a story: "Father Joe"

Julie Bruck: "Car Alarm"

Joe Blades in WORDPLAY, Shetland's Annual Book Festival

Joe Blades will be performing in Wordplay 2013, in Shetland, Scotland, giving public poetry readings and school sessions thanks to an Arts by Invitation grant received from artnb. Blades first travelled throughout Scotland in 1983. Poems written from that experience are published in several periodicals, on a hand-pulled, four-colour, limited edition lithographic art print The budget guide to getting here (Halifax, NS: private, 1987) made in collaboration with Greg MacKenzie, printmaker, while they were BFA students at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and in a poetry chapbook titled Eurotrip (Kamloops, BC: Pooka Press, 1996).

Blades has previously read, given, presentations, and lead workshops in Scotland as a visiting writer of the Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association in 1996. He was at Dumfries Academy, in Dalbeattie, Edinburgh, Johnstonebridge, Paisley Central Library, and at the University of Glasgow. Poems from that experience have been published in The New Brunswick READER magazine.

In Wordplay, Joe Blades will give a reading of his poetry in an event that starts 12:30 pm, Sunday, 1 Sept, at Mareel. Discussions for school sessions and several other readings, including special guest readings, are underway. One of these is the Shetland's book launch event for From Shore to Shoormal coauthored by New Brunswick poet Donna Allard and Shetland poet Nat Hall. Join Nat Hall with musician and poet friends on 1 September 2013, Sunday, 12:30-1:30 pm, in Screen 2, Mareel, in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. The free event will be followed by a book signing, but seating tickets must be obtained in advance over the phone at 01595 745 555, or online at www.shetlandboxoffice.org and www.mareel.org.

Joe Blades lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a visual artist–writer, educator, producer–host of Ashes, Paper, & Beans community radio program at CHSR 97.9 FM since 1995, founding publisher of Broken Jaw Press Inc., and a Past President of the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, the Canadian Poetry Association, the League of Canadian Poets, and other organizations. He is editor of ten collections, and author of seven poetry books, including Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry, and Casemate Poems (Collected), with three of his books translated and published in Serbian including his most recent tradebook, Iz knjige koja se ne zatvara. In the past 33 years, Blades has given many readings across Canada, including in the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Scream in High Park, Word on the Street (Calgary, and Halifax), Eden Mills Literary Festival, Festival littéraire international Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, and the Labrador Creative Arts Festival, as well as in Sarajevo Poetry Days in Bosnia Herzegovina, and in Hungary, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, and the USA.

Joe Blades gratefully acknowledges the support of an Arts by Invitation–Career Development grant from artsnb to enable his participation in Wordplay 2013.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 14 Aug 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Newfoundland author Janis Spence: "On the beach in spanish room"

Scottish poet Tom Pow: "The Football" and other poems

Paul Dutton: "Vive le (for Henri Chopin)"

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 7 Aug 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Lord Torvaldr Torgarson: "Ragnarok Almost Rolled"

Janis Spence: "Live with the Barons"

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 31 July 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Ruth Kirkpatrick: "Thomas the Rhymer"

Rab Wilson: Robert Ferguson's "Caller Oysters"

Ruth Kirkpatrick: "Goodwife of Kittlerumpit"

Ahdri Zhina Mandiela: "Cane Fields"

Paulo da Costa: "Aqua libra"

Sheri-D Wilson: "Man Min Ming Mang"

Hamish Macdonald: "An Ode on the Occasion of the Opening of the first Robbie Burns Summer School"

Highland Radio 2013 taking over CHSR

Lovely Scottish sunshine today ;) but it's not going to stop the NB Highland Games Festival from starting this evening with a Kilted Run/Walk at 6 pm, a concert in the Ceilidh Tent starting at 7 pm, followed by a kick-Off Party also in the Ceilidh Tent.

Saturday morning, 27 July, through the closing ceremonies late Sunday afternoon, HIGHLAND RADIO takes over CHSR 97.9 FM from our tent at the Highland Games site on the 11 acre grounds of Old Government House, 51 Woodstock Road, in Fredericton, NB. We'll have Scottish and Celtic-inspired music; Scottish poetry and storytellers; interviews with music and dance performers, workshop leaders, and interesting people at the games; competition results, and much more ...

Listen to us on air, on the web at CHSR 97.9 FM.

Come to the Highland Games and visit us in person. CHSR is Fredericton's campus–community radio station, your volunteer-run and operated radio station. We've been in Fredericton since 1961, and we are Fredericton's oldest FM station. Find out how you can join CHSR 97.9 FM and get your face on radio making airwaves.

Joe Blades books available at UNB Fredericton bookstore

Because I was an instructor of a session in Maritime Writers' Workshop 2013 this month, the University Bookstore at UNB Fredericton currently has copies of two of my books: Casemate Poems (Collected) (Chaudiere Books), and Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry (Ekstasis Editions). Would be really nice to see them sell copies. The books will be there at least a month. The store is located at 29 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, Phone 506-451-6912, Fax 506-458-7001.

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: 17 July 2013

Ashes, Paper, & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Arts Show, 5–6 pm. Host: Joe Blades. CHSR 97.9 FM Fredericton, NB.

Vince Tinguley, Montreal poet: "Have I Forgotten How To Write A Poem?", "How Can I Help?", "It's Good, It's Accurate", "Midget Love (Sansui Mix)", "Suture", & "The Star Who Never Was".

Catherine Chandler, Montreal poet: People, Places, and Things podcast.

Tom Muir, Scottish storyteller: "Selkie Story".