Upcoming poetry/prose readings: Thursday, October 3, 2013 The Writers’ Studio hosts readings at Cottage Bistro, 4470 Main St., 8pm start http://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/events/2013/10/tws-reading-series-jan-31.html AND Wed., November 27th, 2013 7-8:30pm (doors open at 6:30 for wine and refreshments) North Vancouver City Library Local Authors Series, with Dina Del Cucchia, Barry Jakal, Maria Tomsich, and yeah Joan’ll […]
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Writers’ 10th Annual Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival
Writers’ 10th Annual Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival: Winds of Inspiration What was it about the wind at the Summer Dreams Festival at Trout Lake Park (aka John Hendry Park) on Saturday, August 24, 2013? Was it how it stretched the cirrus into alluring fingers, or how the lake rippled and late summer leaves rustled? […]
Harmony Arts Festival & North Shore Writers: Love on the Fly
Harmony Arts Festival & North Shore Writers Love on the Fly Through Memoir Love on the fly you say…do tell. Well, that’s us. The North Shore Writers Association and the Harmony Arts Festival. The last day, August 11, 2013. Fran Bourassa led us in memoir writing in a two-hour workshop with credits to Sylvia Taylor. […]
‘Sand Castles…Fracking as a nursery crime’
Poetry: April Is National Poetry Month
The Power of Poetry: A Review by Joan Boxall ‘The Power of Poetry’ by Geoff Olson, writer and political cartoonist, is the centerpiece article in March, 2012’s ‘Common Ground’ magazine. Looking at our politically and economically pressure-cooking world through history, Olson shows how poetry still matters in “its own fugitive…hard-to-quantify (and) subterranean way.” Whether “shoehorned […]
Having Being
Having Being’ Parts I, II & III stem from cultures’ creative contemplations: how we got here, how we interact, how we choose to be versus have. Being trumps having. Joan rollicks in verb conjugation rhythms which are laced throughout. ‘Instill and till those verses’. ‘Having Being’ evokes a dervish dance uncoiled to find our kernel.
Vancouver Memories
Vancouverite with Vagabond Tendencies segue to ‘Having Being’ Part I, II,III Read and Sung by Joan Boxall May 11, 2012 TWSRead @ Take 5 Café, Vancouver Growing up in a protective environment gives rise to rebellion. The secure home where I lived was a corner lot, fenced in, conifer-lined, and cast late-afternoon shadows. Other homes […]
Be Kind to Mother Nature
Be Kind To Mother Nature Don’t miss Mother Nature’s pitch on the Enbridge Northern Pipeline Proposal. Listen to her persuasive podcast: casting out of the pod (aka petroleum’s odourous defect). Podcast Mother Nature pitches her pod (petroleum’s odourous defect) regarding Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. Listen, watch and for rationale, go to ‘Jolly Green […]
Creative Journey: Sketching, Movement and Flow
Creative Journey: Sketching, Movement and Flow Sketching My first blog on the creative journey. Today I was with my brother, a fabulous artist who combines impressionism with his own style. We were sketching in a three-hour figurative session as we do every week, side by side, when another artist came along to observe what we’d […]
When Will I See Myself?
When will I see myself As I truly am? Stripped down semblance; Serene, composed, tranquil. Turn, spin, revolve. Dizzy the coil. Obscure turmoil. Adapted from North Shore Writer’s Association Anthology ‘Still Running’, Rogue Literary Press, used with permission, all rights reserved, Joan Boxall, 2010