A recent interview I did for the Demeter Press Blog, linked here, about the meaning and power of poetry in my life. It was a very intriguing exercise as it made me think – long and hard – about things I really hadn’t.
http://demeterpress.org/celebrating-poetry-month-an-interview-with-tricia-mccallum/
The Music of Leaving
An evening of poetry with Tricia McCallum
Thursday March 5th at 7 pm.
Please join us to welcome back Tricia
and spend time listening
to a selection of her work new and old.
Because we can heal the story by rewriting it. Because there is a gift called imagination. Because there is a gift called perseverance. Because we open our hands. Because we open our hearts.
Because the shards are beautiful and reflect the light. Because the world is broken and there are still places where we feel cut up inside and yes, love is the ocean that erodes the sharp edges over time.
Because it’s not too late. Because it’s early, and the day is just beginning,
–from Jena Schwartz’s blog post “Why We Break the Glass.”
Lovely review of my poetry book The Music of Leaving in the January 2015 issue of “Contemporary Verse” from the Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Thinking.
Along with two other new Canadian poetry volumes.
I am in esteemed company, and thrilled.
http://www.contemporaryverse2.ca/en/essays-and-reviews/snapshots/jan-21-2015 …
Some good coverage and photos by local paper, here: https://pickering.snapd.com/index.php?option=com_sngevents&id%5B0%5D=738970#/
The Music of Leaving, my new book of poetry, was launched in, dare I say it and I do, rather grand style on Saturday evening, November 1st in front of a large and enthusiastic audience at the Women’s Art Association of Canada in downtown Toronto’s Yorkville area.
During my presentation to the crowd I talked about the power and possibilities of poetry and what it has meant to me in my life, and then read several pieces from my book. I infused my presentation with humour wherever possible so the audience was not lining up to hang themselves by night’s end. My poetry can get a little dark…
And I was delighted to be introduced so eloquently by my co-M.C.’s for the event Karen Fraser, Toronto entrepreneur and champion of business women everywhere, me included, and my lovely brother Scott McCallum.
Oh. The cupcakes were superb!
A brand new poem. For book three? Why not dream?
In Case We Never Meet
You ought to know
I was kind to children and small animals
and never awoke one day
without underlying sadness.
That I overtipped waitresses,
at breakfast especially,
hated small talk and early mornings
and had the most annoying compulsion
to read the last page of a book
first.
Loved a great many people,
but not all at once
or together at parties.
That I miss
smoking, every single day,
even 25 years on.
And my lovely father,
always.
You ought to know
I am scared of the dark
yet fiercely drawn to it.
And at my happiest in the ocean
or on it,
That I once valued intelligence in people
over just about everything.
But you should also know
I got smarter
and that changed:
Now it’s kindness.
Come and read one of my poems, “Goodbyes, Mostly, These Days,” now on Huff Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tricia-mccallum/
Excited!
News about my book along with one of my poems published in the September Newsletter of Winning Writers:
http://winningwriters.com/whats-new/subscriber-news-september-2014
The Music of Leaving, my new collection of poetry, is now available to order from Demeter Press!
Take advantage of the 50% discount the publisher has extended on the book but only until Oct 1st!
Click here to order: http://www.demeterpress.org/musicofle…
Always be a poet. Even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire.
In essence I am a storyteller who writes poems. Put simply, I write the poems I want to read.[…]
Nothing Gold Can Stay: A Mother
and Father Remembered.
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A sequence of my poems has been published in a hardcover book entitled The Music of Leaving Poems by Tricia McCallum
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