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Guernica Editions Book Launch

May.18.2010
Guernica Editions Book Launch

Guernica Editions launches three new books of poetry and one hot biography:
Time Slip by John Oughton
The He We Knew by Merle Nudelman
What We Pass On by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The Young Maria Callas edited by Bruno Tosi
Mirolla and Connie McParland.

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Jun.09.2012 - 10:37 am
Writing Workshop Dec. 2012 in Dominican Republic
Join me Dec. 16-23 for a writing workshop in the tropical splendour of the rural Dominican Republic. $1000 covers seven days of meals, accommodations and five days of...
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Apr.09.2012 - 10:11 am
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month #8
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month #8 Quiet dune stroll through live and fallen pinesthen crash on path just ahead, white flag flip,big brown doe,she and...
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Apr.07.2012 - 5:14 am
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month #
 Photos Friends Post on Facebook Neil Young A rabbit making the shadow of a human hand An absurdly tiny home A Montreal walk-up 1888 Black Bull Tavern Adam Ant, desperate...
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Apr.06.2012 - 6:46 am
National Poetry Month: Poem-a-day Challenge #6
Poem-a-day Challenge for National Poetry Month #6 NEWS FLASH! In an incredible breakthrough, archeologists have found and decoded a 60-million-year-old dinosaur text which...
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Comments from John

Nov.23.2011 - 7:39 pm
In response to: A Book is Born!
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I'm hoping, once my proposal is approved. to look at the role of emotions in education through the window of published...
Sep.11.2011 - 4:32 pm
In response to: Ear of Dionysius
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for your comment, Tim.  Have you told the story of the drive from Catania on here?  
Sep.09.2011 - 10:12 am
In response to: A Book is Born!
Congratulations...
I've been away from Red Room for a while (busy with my own dissertation proposal) so missed the first announcement of...
Mar.09.2011 - 6:10 am
In response to: Books I Brought Back from the Big Bash (or, Why My Back & Arms Hurt, But My Head & Heart are Happy -- A List in Lieu of a Post)
What an armload...
of books well worth reading. But now that you're finished them all, want another? I'll trade my latest book for one...
Mar.09.2011 - 6:04 am
In response to: Feast or Famine? Feast.
Thanks for your comment
Yes, we do have a fair number of innovative poets up here, those reworking form and syntax -- Betsy Warland, Steve...

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Poem: The Influence of Dreams on Waking Life
Short Story: Over Driven
Poem: Chocolate

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About John

Born in Guelph, Ontario. Educated at York University (BA, MA in English) and later at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where I worked with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, and Robert Duncan. A traveller, I have...
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Causes John Oughton Supports

PEN International, Amnesty International, League of Canadian Poets, POR AMOR, Greenpeace

John’s Favorite Books

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The Club Dumas. The Name of the Rose. Collected Poems of WB Yeats. Ulysses by James Joyce Lord of the Rings. Gravity...