River, River, Slow Dance
River, River, Slow Dance collects love poems written to and for Mark over the five decades of our long marriage (1973 - 2023). I was so...
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Jannie Edwards
Jan 152 min read
Blues for A Rare Moon
Blues for a Rare Moon, Series Thirty, Alfred Gustav Press, 2023. I'm so happy to be part of Alfred Gustav Press Series Thirty poetry...
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Jannie Edwards
Feb 23, 20231 min read
Learning Their Names: Letters from the Home Place
Learning Their Names: Letters from the Home Place Collusion Books, Halifax Over a year in the global pandemic, two friends exchanged...
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Jannie Edwards
Oct 27, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20142 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20141 min read
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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