View the inaugural issue of my Poem-a-Month e-newsletter. Okay, it’s not exactly my inaugural issue (seeing as I’ve been doing this for a couple years now), but it’s the first time I’ve sent out a poem-a-month e-newsletter from the nouspique.com domain. And it’s the first time I’ve sent it out in an expanded format, with news from the world of poetry and a monthly featured poet.
In future issues, news and features will lean a bit to the Canadian side of the 49th parallel. It’s not that I have nationalistic tendencies, but Canadian culture deserves a leg up, particularly where it happens along the margins. Let’s be blunt: our current PM, the esteemed Stephen Harper, demonstrates an apathy towards Canadian culture. Maybe apathy is too charitable a word. How about hostility? If it isn’t commercially viable, then it doesn’t have a right to exist. However, I disagree. So do many others.
I guess you might say that, in its own quiet way, my Poem-a-Month e-newsletter is an act of protest. It’s not that poetry springs up in spite of the barren ground; it’s more that poetry isn’t poetry except that it seeks out the barren ground and works to make it more hospitable.
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