Yesterday in Winnipeg: we arrived by Westjet airship via Toronto early in the morning. We instantly lunched. Dodds ate veal; Tierney had a club house with no bacon. There is no bacon in Manitoba due to a State of Urgency.
We did not practice our poems and proceeded to read them at the reading anyway. But loose. The local book peddler’s house, McNally Robinson (Polo Park edition), was grand. People were slow to arrive and quick to move on. Local author Jan Guenther Braun’s reading was a stellar train travel fable delivered with gusto. Yes!
We then met Bruce Symaka, who interviewed us for Uptown, upstairs in an upscale café. We ordered a beer. The bacon still hadn’t arrived. Bruce brought it home regardless. Thanks Bruce.
We then met Mr. John Cunningham, who interviewed us for his show “Speaking of Poetry” at the University of Winnipeg’s station CKUW (pronounced ckuw). SPOILER ALERT: Tierney and Dodds divulged that they would wear lab coats to the Ottawa Writers’ Festival Master Class: Why Poetry Antimatters. RUMOUR ALERT: Tierney and Dodds adamantly deny scooping a taxi out from under a pregnant lady, or even that she was pregnant, or even that there was in fact a lady.
Poetry Tour Truism: Don’t count your chickens until they’re running around with their heads chopped off.
Books read on Train Today: Pigeon, Karen Solie. This Way Out, Carmine Starnino. The Hayseed Unit, Michael Tearny. Crabwise to the Clowns, Jerry Dobbs. Selected Poems, W.H. Auden.
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