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a sonnet by Bill Knott (for the fallen)
For the fallen of late . . . Leslie Scalapino Louise Bourgeois Shusaku Arakawa Andrei Voznesensky and now David Markson . . . a sonnet by Bill Knott that I happened upon this morning: JANUS IN THE...
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Poetry’s 49th Parallel: Canadian/American Shibboleths
Is this a Canadian poet? Is this Canadian poetry? I photo-shopped the above image of myself because I’ve never taken such a staged picture of myself. And I’ve never really experienced an...
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One for the Neglectorino Project*: Florine Stettheimer
* Click to see the Neglectornio Project An aside before the main attraction: I’ve been hard at work/play editing “Looms,” my poetry manuscript that I describe as a series of layered...
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Maxine Gadd: Subway under Byzantium
Subway Under Byzantium: Poems, 1988-1996 Vancouver: New Star Books, 2008 order from SPD New Star Books ordering page it’s only Saddam is mad. oh, Max, they say, thinking yu know what they mean this...
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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835 – 1868): American actress, poet, proto-feminist
“Stand back! I am no Magdalene waiting to kiss the hem of your garment.” —from “Judith” (early 1860s) Camille Martin
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The Humble Monostich
mono / stich The monostich could inspire a question for poetic Trivial Pursuit: What form (other than prose poetry and vispo)...
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Big Night! Big Night! Were I in Buffalo . . .
Fellow Toronto poet Mark Goldstein and I are delighted to be kicking off Big Night Buffalo’s 2012 reading season at the beautiful Western New York Book Arts Center. Done with the compass, done with...
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The sexy “little song”: Sonnet Workshop by Camille Martin
How did the sonnet get from Petrarch to Bervin? How will you re-invent the sonnet? Find out in my six-week workshop/class on the sonnet at the Toronto New School of Writing. I taught this course last...
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Arc Poetry Magazine: “In the badlands of the vernacular . . .”
The latest issue of Arc Poetry Magazine (67, Winter 2012) includes “In the badlands of the vernacular,” a poem from my upcoming collection, Looms. What I want to offer in this post is a...
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ROBERT ZEND: Poet of exile, citizen of the cosmos
The Canadian Encyclopedia recently published my entry on Robert Zend (click to read it): Camille Martin
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On Cross-Pollination: An interview with Camille Martin by James Pickersgill
My “world premiere” of Looms will be in Cobourg, Ontario, about an hour’s train ride east of Toronto. Poet James Pickersgill put together some thought-provoking interview questions in advance of the...
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Cobourg, Ontario: Small Town, Big Poetry
On Tuesday I read at one of the poetry reading series in Cobourg, Ontario. One? That’s right, the town of Cobourg, population under 20,000, has two poetry reading series and an active and...
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Thumbs-up to 11 poetry books (and so many more)
This year, Steve Evans of the University of Maine invited me to participate in the tenth anniversary of Attention Span, in which eighty poets list the eleven books that influenced them the...
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Looms “expansive”: mclennan
Many thanks to rob mclennan for his lovely review of Looms! “There is such an expansiveness to Martin’s Looms. The poems exist in that magical place where words, images and ideas collide, creating...
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