All-Night Mirror: Notes Toward an Elegy
My essay "All-Night Mirror: Notes Toward an Elegy" about my beautiful, troubled older sister, Moonyeen, was published in Spring 2022...
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Jannie Edwards
- Oct 12
- 1 min
For the Love of Issa's Haiku
I’ve long loved this haiku by Japanese poet and Buddhist priest Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1828), here translated by Jane Hirshfield. On a...
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Jannie Edwards
- Oct 12
- 2 min
1st Prize Winner for the 2021 Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest!
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest! Many thanks to all those who entered...
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Jannie Edwards
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
Raven Overhears the Young Lovers
Because the moon shines through the tree I love you. No. Because I love you the moon shines through the tree.
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Jannie Edwards
- Dec 10, 2020
- 1 min
Make=Believe
In 2011, eco-land artist Sydney Lancaster began an artist residency at our five acre homestead close to the historic Victoria Trail that...
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Jannie Edwards
- Nov 17, 2020
- 1 min
On Webs
Like dreams, they seem impossible. Imagine creating both snare and home from something like spit.
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Jannie Edwards
- Nov 17, 2020
- 1 min
Translating Twilight, January
The feathered hour. The Muse of bruises presses the snarled, tender genealogies. Light slurs from golden to the blue afterlight of...
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Jannie Edwards
- Jan 23, 2019
- 2 min
Blood Opera: The Raven Tango Poems
JANUARY 23, 2019 In the early 2000s, I was immersed in a five week writing residency at the Banff Centre, planning to write a poetry...
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Jannie Edwards
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
Love Letters to the World — Sidewalk Poetry in the Meadows
MAY 24, 2018 A three-year collaboration between lead artists Jannie Edwards and Agnieszka Matejko and The Meadows Community League...
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Jannie Edwards
- Dec 20, 2014
- 1 min
Videopoem: Engrams — Reach and Seize Memory
DECEMBER 20, 2014 Poetry in motion — literally. This collaborative videopoem project was inspired by the work of Edmonton artist Darci...
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Jannie Edwards
- Dec 12, 2014
- 2 min
Mill Woods Living Heritage Project
DECEMBER 12, 2014 Funded by two “Living Local“ grants (2012 & 2013) from the Edmonton Heritage Council , the Edmonton Arts Council and...
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Jannie Edwards
- Dec 12, 2014
- 1 min
Words Unzipped: SkirtsAfire Festival 2014
Words Unzipped | March 7 @ 7:00 – 9:00pm | Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts (9225 – 118 Ave) Words Unzipped showcases new collaborations...
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Jannie Edwards
- Dec 10, 2014
- 1 min
Video/Poetry Installation - Adrift
DECEMBER 10, 2014 Agnieszka Matejko Agnieszka Matejko A collaboration of visual artist Agnieszka Matejko, videographer Bob Lysay and poet...
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Jannie Edwards
- Dec 10, 2014
- 1 min
Collingwood Sidewalk Poetry Project
DECEMBER 10, 2014 photographs: Agnieszka Matejko Twenty-eight poems were selected by jury for this public art project and sandblasted...
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