Howard Adler is Jewish and Indigenous (Anishinaabe). Read What I Learned in School, Guilt Shirt and Cold Feet a sampling of his award-winning poetry. And, watch Honour Song, a short video honouring Native Americans who fought in WWII.
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Posted in Literature
Tagged Asinabka Festival, Canada, First Nations, Howard Adler, Indigenous Shtetl, Ojibway, poetry, WWII
“Three Millenia of Poetic Subversion,” hosted by Adeena Karasick and Jake Marmer. Workshops themes include: the ecstatic tradition of poetry-prophecy; Talmud and its dialectic-semiotic heritage; Uncreative Writing; Kabbalistic language experimentsJazz/Klezmer Poetry; Yiddish voices; — and much more!
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Tagged Adeena Karasick, Creative Writing, Jake Marmer, Jewish music, KlezKanada, poetry, Retreat
Poetry Jam on Shtetl. Israeli-born sign language poet Aneta Brodski meets Tahani a Palestinian-American slam poet in the doc Deaf Jam. Also, meet 2 wild Jewish poets:Jazz Talmudist Jake Marmer and professor, poet and media artist Adeena Karasick.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Adeena Karasick, ASL poetry, Deaf Jam, Doc Pomus, Jake Marmer, Klez kanada, poetry, slam poetry, Toronto Jewish FIlm Festival
This March, Irving Layton would have turned 100. To commemorate this milestone, Poetry Quebec is spearheading the readings, parties, performances and toasts now being organized from coast to coast to coast.
Fallow is Dainow’s debut poetry collection. Her writing unsettles the familiar and draws grace from difficulty.
Four authors will battle it out at this year’s Literary Death Match. Come out for a night of action-packed literary and comedic mayhem that’s not to be missed! Jonathan Goldstein will be a judge and Jason Camlot is one of the authors on the bill.
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Tagged Jonathan Goldstein, Literary Death Match, Literature, Maisonneuve Magazine, poetry
