The Jane Day Reader

* * * Hamilton is such a great city for a book like Treed. It's surrounded by forests and waterfalls, it has a great urban forest, and, between the trees: bookstores. Like Epic Books, where...

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* * * I'm greatly looking forward to the Toronto launch of Treed: Walking in Canada's Urban Forest, mostly because I get to launch with Jo Cullen, Natalee Caple, Sally Cooper, and Becky Bla...

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For the fourth year in a row, the Winnipeg Free Press will be hosting a National Poetry Month project. Taking a leaf from the League of Canadian Poets, the 2019 edition of NPM in the WFP will foc...

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Winnipeg Free Press—PRINT EDITION by Ariel Gordon Jenna Butler teaches English and creative writing at Red Deer College. But most weekends, she makes the three-hour drive to her farm in the...

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I feel like we all need this sunny boulevard.

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Hey menstruators! If you're looking for a good gift for the women and girls in your life, why not GUSH? It's got 100+ excellent Canadian authors and was edited by me, Tanis MacDonald, and Ro...

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So Jenna Butler is one of my favourite people: determined, talented, and kind. I'm so happy to be reading with her and Kate Bitney to launch her latest book, Magnetic North . I'm going to...

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So GUSH was reviewed in Herizons by Courtney Dickson. Yaaaaay! It's so lovely to see some of these reviews coming in...

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From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of Prairie books NOW .

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From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of Prairie books NOW .

http://janedayreader.blogspot.com/2018/11/pbn-lucas-crawford.html

From the Fall/Winter 2018/2019 issue of Prairie books NOW .

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* * * Kyla Neufeld interviewed Tanis MacDonald about GUSH for the spring/summer 2018 issue of Prairie Books NOW .

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* * * From the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Prairie books NOW .

http://janedayreader.blogspot.com/2018/06/pbn-brenda-schmidt.html

* * * From the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Prairie books NOW .

http://janedayreader.blogspot.com/2018/06/pbn-ella-zeltserman.html

* * * I always force audiences to threaten/heckle me, just to keep things interesting. (From last night’s NPM in the WFP 2018 event at McNally's.)

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* * * And GUSH is off to the printers!!! Yaaaaaay! Go grateful to Frontenac House, T anis MacDonald + Rosanna Deerchild. And, of course, ALL the contributors!

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* * * I was super tired and Jason had the flu, but we launched the NPM in the WFP 2018 and it was a great night. Standing room only, lots of new-to-me voices, lots of fun. I made terrible...

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* * * Walked down Palmerston again today, entranced by the big old elms...

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* * * I thought I'd share Mike's photos from the Halfway Tree, a big old cottonwood midway between Brandon and Winnipeg.

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* * * So here are the two pages of NPM poems that ran in yesterday's Winnipeg Free Press. I'm so pleased with the third edition of this project and grateful for co-editor Jason Stefani...

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From Jason Stefanik’s launch of Night Became Years at The Edge Gallery and Urban Art Centre. I hosted the event, which featured poet Colin Smith, musician Jason Eastwood, and artists Ga...

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* * * Last night we had The Art of Walking participant reading. I felt opened up after and then I put beer in the hole...

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* * * Today is my first full day at the Banff Centre, taking part in The Art of Walking program. Time to get to work!

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* * * And we have a cover for GUSH, designed by the the brilliant Meags Fitzgerald, who also contributed a comic to the anthology.  Forgive me, but: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

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* * * Investigating two fresh elm stumps in the Southwood Lands, I found this mushroom. (I think it's a last-year mushroom that was rehydrated in the melting snow...)

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