2025 Late Winter, Early Spring
March 5th, (yes that’s still somewhat winter in Quebec!) Hamac Editions -Somme Toute launched our anthology, ARRACHER LES FRONTIÈRES at the beautiful Librairie La Liberté in Quebec City. For the anthology 12 immigrants to Quebec, were asked to write poems (in French) relating our struggles and joy in adapting to our adoptive culture. A time […]
Interview/“causerie” with Le Cercle Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Quebec City at La Maison de la Littérature Le Cercle Gabriel Garcia Marquez was founded 20 years ago by Victor H. Ramos (Columbia) to bridge Latino cultures with Quebec City artists, thinkers and writers. A few years ago Sebastián Ibarra Guttiérrez (Chile) arrived and joined Victor. Whether lecture or interview format, the evenings are most […]
LAUNCHINGS, Québec and Montréal
Oui! Nous avons célébré, Steady. Against the Absurd. Kinship at the Core / Sans relâche. Contre l’absurde. Corps et âmes, en premier le 29 août à la belle et accueillante Librairie La Liberté à Québec. Nous sommes très reconnaissante à Monika et à Julie Collin, et leur personnel pour l’appui que la Librairie nous donnait […]
2024 Events and Festivals
Celebrating Rae Marie’s new bilingual poetry book, Steady. Against the Absurd. Kinship at the Core / Sans relâche. Contre l’absurde. Corps et âmes Launchings with readings by the author, Rae Marie and the translator Hélène Lépine! Occurred Thursday, August 29th,at Librairie LaLiberté, Ste-Foy, Québec, QCTéléphone : 418 658-3640info@librairielaliberte.comwww.librairielaliberte.com and on Thursday September 12th, at La librairie Bertrand, […]
2019 Poetry on the Bay of Fundy, publications in Montreal and 2020 Zoom for Covid 19
A note for the times: Gratefully, my life goes on in this strange Time of Corona, as one friend puts it. I want to wish you and your loved ones much wellness, energy, solace hope and safety for this difficult period. Art is process… and sometimes web sites too! So I’m catching up with you […]
2018 Montreal! Painting and Sculptures with Songs of Solidarity for the opening.
From Sand and Stars, my solo exhibit of painting and sculpture came to fruition! Opening on April 26th at the Centre d’art E.K. Voland, it was accompanied by my Spoken Word show Songs of Solidarity/Chants d’amitié en mouvance in its Montreal version. Pierre Nepveu, one of Quebec’s leading authors, gave a generous introduction getting the evening off […]
2017 A Lecture, Some Sculpture, and fabulous fun at Le Fou-Bar Montreal!
The most recent news is, I moved back to Montreal in July. As I arrived, I was happy to find my bilingual poem Si je disais/What Can I say? published in Montreal’s Spanish-speaking publication The Apostles Review #19. Since then I have enjoyed reading with this warm and lively literary community. From the beginning it […]
2016 Les femmes rapaillées! and the P.E.N. Women Writers’ Committee
In the spring, The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope reached Montreal with my reading at the well-loved ARGO Bookshop. The response of those present was heartening. People are hungry for hope and knowledge. How satisfying and motivating it was to nourish that hope for the land and our relationship with it! This has been […]
2015 A New Show, Ancient Petroglyphs and Arts Alive!
Now it’s Fall and after doing new writing in French for a couple publications, I’m enjoying time again in the Southwest. My focus this time is guiding tours with Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project. Do go to their site to see and enjoy the wonderful work they do. mesaprietapetroglyphs.org Voices, music, images, depth of rhythm and […]