Only three more sleeps til International Literature Festival Dublin and we're excited that #Canadian poet Gregory Betts Gregory Betts will be taking part! Join him on 24 May for Experimental Translation: New Ways to Read and Write ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi…

Oh no! Alice Munro RIP

Canada Post releases a series of graphic novel stamps: CHESTER BROWN's Louis Riel, JILLIAN & MARIKO TAMAKI's This One Summer, SETH's Clyde Fans, and MICHEL RABAGLIATI's Paul à Québec.

BardCode is alive! Thanks so much to all of you who purchased pre-orders. Your support means a lot to me. I've loved seeing all the photos of it in the world -- even if I'm still a week away from the Ireland launch where I will get to see it myself! penteractpress.com/store/bardcode

Reminder: the Provincial Minister of Colleges and Universities has no authority over this. Our ON Universities are independent and governed as such.

Higher ed institutions across the province are suffering from historically low levels of public funding. She should focus on that.

Using a colour-coded map of sonic patterns, experimental poet Gregory Betts has created a visual representation of the Shakespeare’s sonnets.

In p'ship with UCD Poetry & The Mary Lavin Centre for Creative Writing

#ILFD2024 Gregory Betts Paul Perry

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The new Apple iPad ad reminds me of those early manifestoes of the Italian Futurists -- destroy the past, burn the museums, crush the bikes, feel the pulsing power of new technology. Cleanse the world through destruction, unforgiving and brutal.

My 45 minute lecture on the history of sound poetry in Canada is exactly 47 minutes and there is NOTHING, no word or squawk, I want to remove.

'form is never more than an extension of content.'
—Charles Olson, 1950

'theory is never more than the extension of content.'
—Charles Bernstein, 1981

Raúl Zurita's 1993 geoglyph in the Atacama Desert, three kilometres long, reads 'ni pena ni miedo,' or 'neither shame nor fear.'

Jean A. Baudot's 'La machine à écrire' (1964) is one of the earliest (if not the earliest?) books of computer-generated texts. Canadians: Why has this not been translated??

'The holiday and husband will forget girls.

Fear cultivates a snake.'
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I'm excited to announce that the The SETI Institute's Artist in Residence program is launching five new residencies this year. The first one has just blasted off: Cosmic Consciousness, a residency for poets and authors.

Call for submissions here: seti.org/seti-air-progr…

bpNichol, 'Weights and Measures V' (1986).

Poets, Writers, Literary Experimentalists: Apply now for this special literary residency with the SETI Institute. We are accepting applications now! [Pls forward to all]

Please DM or email me at gbetts at brocku.ca with any questions.
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So excited to announce: SOME LINES OF POETRY FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF BPNICHOL, lovingly edited by Gregory Betts (Gregory Betts) and I ... and available for preorder today from Coach House Books : chbooks.com/Books/S/Some-L…

Some (other) lines of poetry

It's awards season! We are currently accepting submissions for 4 awards, from first year essays to creative works of poetry and prose. The deadline to apply is Monday, May 6th. Contact the Brock English Dept department for more information!
Brock Humanities

A reminder to all that we are actively seeking manuscript interventions in our 'Reimagining Canada' series.

Brion Gysin, 'Magic Mushrooms' (1961).