Activities 2012
16 February 2012, Ottawa: Geode Music & Poetry, with Susan McMaster, Alrick Huebener, Jennifer Giles, David Broscoe, John Higney, Mike Essoudry, Dean Steadman, AB Series, Avant Garde Café, 7:30pm door opens, 8-9pm performance.

Activities 2011
21 March, Sudbury: high school reading, Marymount Academy, organizer Kim Fahner
22 March, Ottawa: Reading from Crossing Arcs for Alzheimer's caregiver's group (closed), Alzheimer's Society. Reading requests welcome
7 April, North Hatley, Quebec: National Poetry Month reading, 7:30 pm, North Hatley Library.
15 April, Cobourg, Ontario: 2011 POW! Poetry Festival, Black Moss Celebration reading with Mary Ann Mulhern and rob mclennan, Cobourg Library, 7:30 pm.
June, Selma, Nova Scotia: Gallery 215, reading and Q&A
15 October, Sudbury: Reading and Sudbury Writers' Guild Workshop on "Memoir in Prose and Poetry", Greater Sudbury Public Library
5 November, Ottawa: Small Press Book Fair, League of Canadian Poets Book Table, 12-5 pm, Jack Purcell Community Centre
12 November, Maitland, Nova Scotia: PK Page Trust Fund Reading, Bing's Eatery, Hwy 215
16 November, Ottawa: Poetry Reading, Lord Lansdowne residence, 920 Bank St
6 December, Ottawa: Reading from Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, my mother, and me, Alzheimer's Society of Ottawa

Activities 2010
9 February, Ottawa: Workshop on Poetry, Music, and Worship, Quaker retreat, performance with Linsey Wellman
9 February, Ottawa: Cube Gallery, Ottawa, donation of book that was auctioned off in a fundraiser for Haiti
26 February, Sudbury: Laurentian University reading, LUminaries Series
23 March, Ottawa: Panel on "Poetic Meaning" with Sinya Queras, Erin Moure, and Rob Winger, TREE
28 March, Ottawa: Workshop on autobiography with Dusty Owl series
9 April, Windsor: Launch of Paper Affair: Poems Selected and New, University of Windsor
9 April, Windsor: Essex High School and Vincent Massey High School readings with John B. Lee
10 April, Amherstburg: Double-launch with poet John B. Lee
13 April, Ottawa: "Notes on Performance", for poets, TREE
18 April, Kingston: Launch of Crossing Arcs, Novel Idea bookstore, 2:30 pm, Princess and Bagot, with Johanna Skibsrud
28 April, Ottawa: City of Ottawa 55+ Short Story Contest (Judge), Afternoon of Readings, Heron Seniors' Centre, 1480 Heron, 1-3 pm
29 April, Ottawa: Black Moss Poetry Train, Ottawa Station, arrives from Windsor with Marty Gervais, John B. Lee, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Mary Anne Mulhern, Roger Bell, and Bruce Meyer ready for random acts of poetry, 4:30 pm
29 April, Carleton Place: Black Moss free workshop (sign up ahead) and reading, with above poets plus Terry Ann Carter, Ronnie R. Brown, Betsy Struthers, Susan McMaster, Read's Book Shop, 130 Lansdowne, 7:30 and 8:30 pm
30 April, Ottawa: Black Moss 40th Anniversary Reading & Book Launch, Mother Tongue Books, 1067 Bank, 7:30 pm
5 May, Ottawa: New Edinburgh Square, 420 Mackay, 3:45 pm; MayWorks reading, with Ronnie Brown, Emily Olding, and Kikki Bradshaw, Umi Cafe, 610 Somerset W., 8 pm
26 May, Peterborough: Launch of Crossing Arcs and Paper Affair, Titles Bookstore, 379 George St. N., 7 pm
27 May, Peterborough: Poetry Salon
29 May, Beeton: Black Moss poets at Beeton Honey & Garden Festival
2 June, Ottawa: Rally for Peace to oppose the CANSEC Weapons Bazaar, Lansdowne Park, 5-7 pm, including a dozen poets from Ottawa and Montreal, then more readings 1:30-3 pm at Irene's pub, 885 Bank St. see also Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade and Poets against War. I read briefly at all 3 events from the anthology Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action
7 June, Ottawa: Launch of Paper Affair: Poems Selected & New (Black Moss 2010) at Mother Tongue Books, 1067 Bank, 7:30 pm
9 June, Ottawa: Alzheimer's support group, closed reading, 10 am (requests for similar workshops welcome)
23 July, Orillia: With Black Moss poets Marty Gervais, Betsy Struthers, Bruce Meyer, at Leacock Summer Festival, 3 pm
22 September 2010, Antigonish NS: St Francis Xavier University, English Department, with Jeanette Lynes, 5:15-6:30 pm
25 September, Summerville NS: The Avon Emporium, 1 Wharf Road, 7 pm
26 September, Selma NS: Gallery 215, with Nova Scotia "Culture Days", 1:30 pm 1 November, Ottawa: Poets' Pathway Beechwood Plaque Unveiling, Poets' Hill, 11:30 am, with assorted speakers, and Arc Poetry Magazine and Archibald Lampman Award Reading and reception, 12:30 pm, with Blaine Marchand, Barbara Myers, Colin Morton, and Craig Poile, Beechwood Cemetery
6 November, London: Poetry Cafe: Launch of Pith & Wry with readings by Betsy Struthers, Terry Ann Carter, and Penn Kemp, London Public Library, Landon branch, 167 Wortley Road, Martha Bishop Community Room, 2-4 pm Landon Public Library calendar
7 November, Hamilton: Lit Live, with Betsy Struthers, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William St., 7:30 pm
14 November: Sudbury launch of Pith & Wry, with readers Monique Chenier, Timmins poet, Roger Nash, Poet Laureate of Greater Sudbury, and Susan McMaster. Le Grand Ciel Bleu, 93 Durham St., 2-4 pm
18 November, Sherbrooke: Morris House reading series, Bishop's University Bookstore (Marjorie Donald Building), 4:30 pm
23 November, Ottawa: OTTAWA LAUNCH OF PITH & WRY, in conjunction with the TREE Reading Series, Arts Court Library, refreshments, short readings, 6:30 pm. Followed by TREE with P&W contributors Dave Margoshes (Saskatchewan) and Colin Morton (Ottawa), 8 pm
9 December, Ottawa: Reading from Paper Affair: Poems Selected & New and Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry, at Mother Tongue Books, 1067 rue Bank Street (at Sunnyside), with Nina Berkhout, launching Arrivals and Departures, (Buschek Books 2010), 7:30 pm

Activities 2009
OTTAWA
Unitarian Arts Night Series, Unitarian Church
AB Series, Gallery 101, with Penn Kemp
Poet's Pathway "Concert for Bill", National Library, including a performance of "Prayer" set by composer John Armstrong
Mother Tongue Books, launch for Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
TREE Reading Series, from Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
TREE Reading Series, with Kate Eichhorn

NOVA SCOTIA
Gallery 215, Selma
Avon Emporium, Summerville

ONTARIO
Windsor Book Festival, Windsor
Art Bar, Toronto
The Bookstore Cafe with Alrick Huebener, Camden East

MONTREAL
The Yellow Door, Montreal, 3 December

Broadcast
Interview for Crossing Arcs with Alan Neale on "All in a Day", CBC radio
Interview with Mitchell Caplan on CHUO radio

Events
Participated in the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair
Donated to a fundraiser for the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, leading to a workshop with a group of Ottawa poets

Competitions
Judge for competitions including the League of Canadian Poets' Lampert Award for Best First Poetry Book; the Carleton University George Johnston Poetry Award and Lillian I. Found Poetry Prize; the TREE Origami Crane Poetry Contest; and a grant jury

Activities 2007 (incomplete)
Shoe String Reading Series, Seahorse Tavern, Halifax, host Dave Rimington
Acadia University, Wolfville, host Heather Pyrcz

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