30 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Announcements & News, Poetry, Publications
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book, Caitlin Press, feminist poetry, poetry, poetry collection, The Brightest Thing, the fairy tale poetry manuscript
I’m excited to announce that my first book of poetry, The Brightest Thing, is forthcoming early next year with Caitlin Press (and it has a beautiful fairy tale cover)!
Read all about it on the publisher’s online catalogue. And stay tuned for launch party details–I can’t wait to share this book with you!
08 Friday Sep 2017
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Beauty, feminism, gender, girlhood, girls, Nicolas V. Sanchez, poem, poetry, Visual Art, White Dresses, women, Word and Colour
I’m thrilled to collaborate with Word and Colour once again! My new poem “White Dresses” is now up on the site, in response to visual art by Nicolas V. Sanchez. I feel very lucky to be a contributor to Word and Colour. The journal’s mandate is “to confront oppression or provide positive alternatives to stereotype.” The journal curates pieces of visual art, which are selected and then sent to writers who respond to the visual art. The resulting collaborations are exciting, and the journal has recently featured work by some literary and visual artists who are dear to me–when you’re reading through the archive, be sure to notice the work of Natalie Morrill, Francine Cunningham, and Chelsea Rushton.
21 Friday Jul 2017
Posted in Events & Appearances, Interviews, The Writing Life
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BASA, Can Lit, Casears, feminism, feminist poetry, interview, Mallory Tater, poetry, strawberry lemonade, The Brightest Thing, V, Van Lit, Vancouver, Vancouver poets
Me with my strawberry lemonade at Burgoo Bistro on Main St. in Vancouver on July 12. Photo by Mallory Tater, via the Glamato blog.
I was recently back in Vancouver for two weeks to run some teacher training workshops for BASA (the beloved speech arts school where I used to teach and for which I still design curriculum), and while I was back in my old neighbourhood I ate a lot of ice cream, dipped my toes in the ocean, visited the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, toured around Stanley Park, and just tried to soak up as much Vancouver-in-the-summer time as I could.
I also had the pleasure of chatting about feminist literature with the lovely Mallory Tater, who is running Glamato, a new summer-themed interview series. The idea is that Mallory meets up with female-identifying and genderqueer folk of the Can Lit scene and engages them in conversations about inclusion, literature, creativity, and process. And she does so while sipping Caesars on the best patios in Vancouver!
I opted for a strawberry lemonade instead of a Ceasar and thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Mallory. You can read the full interview (and many more, with other smart folk) over on the Glamato blog.
10 Saturday Jun 2017
Posted in Events & Appearances, Poetry, Visual Art
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games, Kelowna, Kelowna Art Gallery, Mario Kart, painting, poems, poetry, The Games We Play, video games, Visual Art, watercolour, watercolour painting
I have new work appearing in The Games We Play, a juried exhibition that will be showing all summer at the Kelowna Art Gallery. The opening reception is happening on Friday, June 23 and I would love to see you there–the event is free to members and to guests by invitation. You can RSVP to the Facebook event if you plan to come to the party, but of course you can visit the art gallery at any time this summer (through to September 17) to view the poems, paintings, installations, and all the other excellent art by my fellow exhibitors!
The Games We Play is an exhibit about all kinds of games, from video games to board games, party games to nursery games… The gallery has brought together artists from game and animation studios, visual art programs, and local art communities to create a diverse celebration of games and how they influence us! (You can learn more about the exhibition from the art gallery’s website.)
My work for the exhibit is a suite of four poems, which I’ve illustrated with watercolour. I’m really excited to be a part of this exhibition. If you’ve ever wanted more poetry and art about Mario Kart, this is your chance!
01 Thursday Jun 2017
Posted in Poetry
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Bird's Thumb, birds, Nesting, poem, poems about birds, poetry, robin, Spring 2017, the bird poetry manuscript
My poem “Nesting” is now published in the June issue of Bird’s Thumb, a delightfully quirky journal that showcases emerging writers. I’m completely charmed by their logo design, and consistently enjoy the work they feature, so I’m extra pleased the editors have chosen to feature my poem! I hope you’ll check out the issue … and stay to browse the journal’s excellent archive! My own poem in Bird’s Thumb is about, among other things, robins.
A couple other of my bird poems have been published: for Sandhill Cranes, check out my award-winning poem “Wedding Anniversary” in The New Quarterly and for White-crowned Sparrows check out “Natural Behaviours” in Word and Colour.
Since I’m talking about birds already (I often am), I’ll mention that a pair of Black-billed Magpies are raising their very noisy young in our backyard here and it is amusing to watch the fledglings learn to fly–their tail feathers haven’t grown in completely yet and the birds’ bodies seem plump and fluffy and so with their too-short tail feathers they are altogether endearingly clumsy.
31 Wednesday May 2017
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animals, cat, cats, collaboration, ekphrasis, ekphrasis poetry, Natural Behaviours, Nick Liefhebber, poem, poetry, the bird poetry manuscript, Visual Art, White-crowned Sparrows, Word and Colour
I’m thrilled to collaborate with Word and Colour again (my poem “Tinaja” appeared in the journal in February). My new poem “Natural Behaviours” is now up on the site, in response to visual art by Nick Liefhebber. I feel very lucky to be a contributor to Word and Colour. As I’ve mentioned before, I love the journal’s mandate “to confront oppression or provide positive alternatives to stereotype.” The journal curates pieces of visual art, which are selected and then sent to writers who respond to the visual art. The resulting collaborations are exciting. I hope you’ll check it out!
03 Wednesday May 2017
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Adam Pottle, Folk Tale Type 425C, Grain - The Journal of Eclectic Writing, Grain Magazine, happily ever after, On Learning a Girlfriend Started Cutting Again, poems, poetry, prose poetry, Ruth Daniell, the fairy tale poetry manuscript, Winnie Truong
I’ve got two new poems in the newest issue of Grain: “Folk Tale Type 425C” and “On Learning a Girlfriend Started Cutting Again.” In very different ways, both poems explore the way that love, even good love, can fail to meet our expectations of “happily ever after.”
Both of these poems happen to be particularly dear to me, and I’m really happy to see them in their first home in Grain–a journal that seems especially generous towards work that veers out a little past the expected (I’m still grateful they published my seven-page-long mermaid poem a couple years ago). My thanks to current editor Adam Pottle for his support this time round. I encourage you all to check out the entire issue–it’s full of excellent writing, and I’m also very partial to Winnie Truong’s visual art, which is featured throughout the issue. (By happy coincidence, Winnie Truong was also the cover artist of another lit mag I’ve been published in–the first issue of Canthius!)
20 Thursday Apr 2017
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Canlit, Creatures, Dust, feminist magazine, feminist poetry, love, Love and Nintendo, Meghan Bell, poetry, ROOM Magazine, surviving sexual violence, the fairy tale poetry manuscript, unicorns
I’m super pleased that I have three poems appearing in the spring issue (40.2) of Room Magazine, edited by Meghan Bell. “Dust,” “Love and Nintendo,” and “Creatures” explore the after-effects of sexual violence, and I so appreciate that they found a first home in such an awesome feminist magazine.
There are lots of other fine writers featured in this issue, and I’m honoured to be in such good company. You can now order the June issue for Room‘s pre-sale price of $9 (25% off) until May 15. Check it out!
You can also read Meghan Bell’s editor’s letter, as a way of introduction to the issue, right here.
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
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art, Body Politics, body positivity, collaboration, illustration, Leah Mol, literature, poem, poetry, Sonia Alins Miguel, Tinaja, Visual Art, Water Women, Word and Colour
Image from Word and Colour website
My brand new poem “Tinaja“–inspired by the artwork of Sonia Alins Miguel–is now published in the fantastic online journal, Word and Colour. My thanks to editor Leah Mol for the opportunity to participate.
I’ve admired the journal for a long time because I love its mandate “to confront oppression or provide positive alternatives to stereotypes” and the way in which it features both literary and visual art. The journal curates pieces of visual art, which are selected and then sent to writers who respond to the visual art. The words–which may be prose or poetry–paired with the colours result in some startling, gorgeous, dark or light collaborations. I feel incredibly grateful to be a participant.
I was sent a beautiful painting/paper cut piece by the wonderful Spanish illustrator Sonia Alins Miguel from her Water Women series. “Tinaja” is the poem that I wrote in response. The painting is so rich, and world news is so overwhelmingly hard right now, that I felt pulled in many different directions when I sat down to write. In the end, I’m happy to be able to offer something that offers a bit of hope–to try, as the journal’s mandate suggests, “to alter the way we are socialized and celebrate the beauty of the world that is often missing.” There really is a lot of beauty in our flawed world.
Please go to the Word and Colour website to enjoy the entire archive of visual and literary art. To see Sonia Alins Miguel’s painting and to read my poem, please start here: “Tinaja” by Ruth Daniell.
19 Thursday Jan 2017
Posted in Announcements & News, Poetry, Publications
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'90s toys, (parenthetical), cartoons, Half-Shark, Mermaid in the Seine, My Little Pony, Nicole Brewer, poetry, Street Sharks, the '90s, William Kemp
Image from the words(on)pages website
I’m pleased to pass on the news that my poem “Half-Shark” has found a home! This little weird poem is inspired by sibling love, My Little Pony, and the ’90s cartoon Street Sharks and its action figures. I’m really excited the poem has been included in issue seventeen of (parenthetical), thanks to the amazing team at words(on)pages. Nicole Brewer and William Kemp are two of the most supportive, caring, hard-working folk with whom I have had the pleasure of working (you may remember they published my micro-fiction “Mermaid in the Seine” a couple years ago). I hope you will support them (and me) by buying a print copy of issue seventeen with my poetry and the work of many other fine writers. But because of the publishers’ generosity, you can also browse the entire issue online!
