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Elizabeth Zetlin Interview
We missed poetry month so much that we decided to continue it on through the remainder of the quarantine. We hope everyone is staying safe and keeping well. This week we’re featuring Elizabeth Zetlin, Owen Sound’s first poet laureate from 2007-2008. She initiated the Poet Laureate map of Canada project, and has travelled across Canada giving... Read more »
Continue readingBlack Moss Press Authors Reading
Want to catch your favourite Black Moss Author performing a public reading? We’ve compiled a list of upcoming readings from our 2011/2012 authors. Check out a reading near you! June 17 – Terry Ann Carter – League of Canadian Poets AGM, book launch for Day Moon Rising, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. June 17 – Bernice Lever – poetry reading for League of... Read more »
Continue readingPhotos from The Punctuation Field Book Launch
Elizabeth Zetlin launched her book The Punctuation Field earlier this month at the Downtown Bookstore in Owen Sound, Ontario. Liz read with Owen Sound Poet Laureate Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and audience members enjoyed punctuation truffles by Theo. Enjoy these photos from the launch!
Continue readingIt’s More Than Fame, It’s Community Pride: Poet Laureates
By Black Moss Press interns Jaclyn Wood, Rebecca Taylor, and Kristina Storey The City of Windsor is currently looking for their first Poet Laureate. The Ancient Greeks would pay tribute to their most notable poets by giving them this title; the Poet Laureate would be responsible for writing odes, which would celebrate royal events, such as... Read more »
Continue readingAndrew Armitage reviews The Punctuation Field
Andrew Armitage has written a glowing review of Elizabeth Zetlin’s The Punctuation Field for the Owen Sound Sun Times. He writes: “Liz Zetlin’s poems are a reading gift, a donation to stretching our creative minds. They can be read, over and over, each reading bringing new meaning, new recognitions.” Read the full review here.
Continue readingBlack Moss Press Fall 2011 Book Launches Announced
Black Moss Press is excited to launch our Fall 2011 line of books! Here are the details for upcoming book launches. More to come! Coming to Terms with a Child – Henry Beissel Thursday, Sept. 15th, 7pm Collected Works Bookstore 1242 Wellington St. West Ottawa, Ontario www.collected-works.com The Pillow Books – Karen... Read more »
Continue readingThe Punctuation Field
A newcomer to the Black Moss family, but certainly not a newcomer in the literary world, Elizabeth Zetlin releases her seventh book of poetry, The Punctuation Field. As the readers work their way through this delicately cultivated collection of nature poems, they are able to follow the blueprints of Liz’s imagination as she turns an... Read more »
Continue readingElizabeth Zetlin
Elizabeth Zetlin’s previous publications include The Thing with Feathers (BuschekBooks), Taking Root (Seraphim Editions), Said the River (Penumbra Press), Connections (Always Press), and Ghost of Glenelg (Always Press), many being collaborations with visual artists. Her chapbook The Gourd Poems received the 1999 Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian Award. Her poetry has also received a Stephen... Read more »
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