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Camille Martin, a Toronto poet and collage artist, is the author of Codes of Public Sleep (BookThug, 2007) in addition to several earlier chapbooks. Recent work is published or forthcoming in The Literary Review of Canada, PRECIPICe, The Walrus, West Coast Line, This Magazine, White Wall Review, Rampike, W Magazine, and Chicago Review. Recently she received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to complete a book of sonnets. She earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. in English at Louisiana State University. Currently she teaches writing and literature at Ryerson University. Her website is http://www.camillemartin.ca

Vernon Frazer has published eight books of poetry, including the longpoem IMPROVISATIONS, and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs Review, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria,, Otoliths and many other literary magazines. His most recent books of poetry are Bodied Tone and Holiday Idylling, His web site is http://vernonfrazer.com. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida. This is an excerpt from ANY MOMENT, a longpoem currently in search of a publisher.

Here are three collaborative pieces by Jo Cook and Emily Goodden. The title of the series is The Apocryphal Codex of Resolutions, transmitted from planet *Coelan*dzIX,13 Two other pages from this series will be in the next issue of fhole. Large reproductions of pages from the series will be exhibited in May at Open space in Victoria for the exhibition we are not alone: new work in collaborative fiction.

Emily Goodden is an artist and musician living in Victoria soon to be transplanted to London, Ontario.
Jo Cook is a visual artist and publisher. Perro Verlag Books by Artists. www.perroverlag.com

Kevin, raised in Winnipeg, now lives and works in Ottawa. He is Executive Director of the NCRA/ANREC and a freelance designer, writer, and illustrator. He has performed his spoken word poetry for audiences from handfuls to hundreds across Canada. He loves to hear feedback on all of this.

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Before reading the following paragraphs, please consider that perhaps I am probably making too much explicit. After all, weightlessness and ambiguity in the images seems very important. Rather than prejudicing your viewing by this statement; I want to encourage you to feel prepared to view out the images without this information.

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cris costa lives in toronto. she’s a founding member of the tongue collective, which runs a monthly (or bi-monthly) performance-poetry-music show, and is an editor of the tongue zine. she is also an event organizer and grants coordinator for the scream literary festival. she recently completed an undergraduate degree in english literature at york university, and will be heading out west in the fall to work on a masters at simon fraser.

The internet just gained a bit of weight. Take a look at the following sites for entertainment, enlightenment and the satisfying chew/swallow of information.

1) Artmob has launched a bpNichol archive. You will find audio, digitized print materials, photographs, links and eventually video, critical articles and curated exhibitions on the site.

The site was developed by the Artmob project in collaboration with Ellie Nichol, and is designed as a not-for-profit community initiative. It is intended as the start of a process, so read the submission guidelines and if you have material you would like to contribute or an idea for an exhibition of bp’s work pitch away.

Artmob is a York University-based research project dedicated to building accessible public archives of Canadian art. Over the coming years Artmob will add tools to improve the browsing and cataloguing. It will also provide novel approaches to intellectual property, encouraging contributors to identify themselves and set the terms of use for their works. Artmob hopes that a spirit of fair dealing will assist in getting artistic materials out of shoeboxes and filing cabinets and into the world where they belong. bpNichol.ca is Artmob’s pilot project.

2) Jordan Scott is launching his latest and much anticipated book of poetry Blert this week through Coach House. He also has a website you may want to check out. Be sure to look at the “upcoming readings” tab and check out when he’s coming through your town.
3) Add your own. Know of any online projects that aren’t linked. I hate to be neglectful.

Matias, Gr. 12, Writer’s Craft

Joanne, Gr. 12, Writer’s Craft

Vivian, Gr. 12, Writer’s Craft

I’ve been working with Grade 10, 11 & 12 students at Notre Dame Catholic High School as part of the SWAT (Students, Writers, and Teachers) program, part of Descant Magazine’s Now Hear This))) program, which places writers in high school classrooms. I have one hour per week with each class. That’s hardly enough time to introduce a topic (like visual poetry which I did last week), talk about it and then create some. I had students check out Tom Phillips’ A Humument project online and brought in some print out versions of the project. I came in armed with pastels and pencil crayons and three books that i felt i could part with (mostly gifts from my mom…sorry mom, we just have fundamentally different tastes in books…you may want to save the money next christmas and get me a day planner or something). The students excitedly ripped pages out of the novels and scanned the pages for tasty word morsels. We did list poems early on in my residency, so some students continued their list poems into this new medium, circling food, or love lines, or places. I was very impressed with the level of engagement each student displayed as they smudged and highlighted words that intrigued them. Some stunning artists lurk in high school English classes. Some students even stayed late to put the final shadings in their margins. Above are just a few examples of the 60 or so that I collected this week.