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Browsing Archive: September, 2010 Poetry is Dead Issue 2 Launch \| October 1, 2010 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, September 29, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such What happens when you give poets five minutes in front of a microphone to do whatever they want? We don’t know. But we’re willing to find out. On October 1st we launch our second issue, and challenge the contributing poets to do anything besides read poetry. There will be talks and readings by some of the contributors of the “TV, Beer and Video Games” issue including Billeh Nickerson, Donato Mancini, Nikki Reimer, Dina Del Bucchia, Karlene Harvey, Jordan Abel and more. Join us for a nig... Continue reading ... 95 Books Blog 71 to 74 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 27, 2010, In : Book Review 71 - 74: WALDROP, BUDDE, BALL, MUNDAY Forgive the lack of elucidation; I am exhausted. *71. Curves to the Apple* by Rosmarie Waldrop** This book encompasses three books of Waldrop’s poetry: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle (which is out of print) and Reluctant Gravities. May I gush? Waldrop has me rethinking my approach to the prose poem. I have half the book flagged and will be placing it in a place of honour in my bedside reading stack…unless Wilcke fights me for it. 72. de... Continue reading ... Tranna Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, In : blog blog blog I am here. Continue reading ... The more things digitize the more we return to the printed page Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, In : poetry & poetics (Published on Lemon Hound on Sept. 20, 2010) I’m fumigating at the moment (fleas, sowbugs, clothing moths). Akin to moving, only you move right back in to the same apartment. This is why I missed Lisa Robertson and Eileen Myles read at the charles h. scott gallery on Saturday, which I'm certain was all kinds of woman rock star writer awesomeness. Over the summer, I attended, and briefly read at, the west coast diagonal zine fair, a hopefully inaugural event featuring these BC-based zines and... Continue reading ... feeling bookish? \| yes, yes i am Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 20, 2010, In : Arts Just got word that my conception of my life via book design will be included in a Feeling Bookish feature in the excellent Uppercase magazine, Issue 7, along with many other talented artists. If you're interested in the issue or a subscription to this very lovely magazine, visit their shop and enter the code "bookish" for 10% off your order. Here's my final design, below. Continue reading ... On development, idleness & realism: My 95BooksBlog reads 68 to 70 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 18, 2010, In : Book Review 68. - 70. PAVLINA, EHRENREICH, HODGKINSON: SELF-HELP/ANTI-SELF-HELP Catching up with 3 “Self Help” genre books (or anti-Self Help genre, as the case may be): I’d been chronically disheartened for, oh, about a lifetime, but in particular over the summer, as I tried to deal with my lengthy unemployment and various other small little upsets and foibles; such is life. However, I was growing increasingly, paralyzingly anxiety-ridden to the point of immobility in the daytime and insomnia in the... Continue reading ... Please help us find a new indoor home for Bill the cat Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 13, 2010, In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare Deacon Bill needs a home! Our 3 year old Manx-Siamese cross Bill (Deacon Bill) needs a good home! Bill has recently been diagnosed with FeLV (feline leukaemia virus). He does not currently show any signs of the disease being active, but due to the infectious nature of FeLV to other cats he needs to live in a closed environment where he does not go outside, or to a home with other FeLV cats. Bill is calm, adaptable and sweet. He can be shy around new people and new environments, but once he w... Continue reading ... i survived..... Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 13, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest .....barely. In 72 hours, I wrote 67 pages and 11,273 words of a mini-novel called The Regeneration Project. That night I barely slept, suffering from the writerly version of runner's high. The next day, we took all 3 beasts to the vet's for routine checkups, only to discover: Bella had a bad staph infection in her ear All 3 still have fleas Bill tested positive for FeLV But Amy was negative Also I am going to be teaching a course at Langara College this fall, which is very exciting, and I went for t... Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest: Hour 24 and 52 minutes Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, September 5, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest Date: September 5, 2010 Time: 12:53 am Words: 4,211 Pages: 23 Chapters: 10 Me hour 23 and 49 minutes: Wordle of manuscript at 8:30 pm and 3,000 words yesterday: The workspace: The cats Not Helping: Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest: Hour 20 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, September 5, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest After 3 go-arounds and much yelling, I am typing this post in Word to copy-paste into my blog. Yola.com is great for my website, blogging software not so much. Actually, it sucks. Date: September 4, 2010 Time: 7:58 pm Words: 3,043 Pages: 17 Chapters: 8 Me earlier today, twirling my hair for inspiration: The lovely Jonathon made a delicious and filling dinner of curried beans, wild rice and sweet peppers, after which I feel poised to write on into the night. My word count is lower than many... Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest: Hour 14 Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest Date: September 4, 2010 Time: 2:24 pm Got off to a later start than I planned today. After I posted last night I took to bed with my tea and ended up making some more notes for the novel thing, which has characters but might be more of the experimental type nonsense that occurs when poets write novels. Wait a minute, I started writing stories years and years before I ever wrote a poem. Genre distinctions are for the unimaginative. In any case, I meant to get up at 9 but slept till just after noo... Continue reading ... 3 Day Novel Contest - Hour Two Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : 3 Day Novel Contest Date: September 4, 2010 Time: 2:10 am Words: 1400 Pages: 7 Face: IOGraphica of mouse movements: First 442 words: Whoops, the rules say no web publishing! Took the excerpt down. Don't want to run afoul of the law. Continue reading ... Gone Fishin' Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such Continue reading ... VisPo : Writing a blog post on BC Arts Cuts Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : poetry & poetics via the very cool IOGraphica.com Continue reading ... « Back to posts		Blog Archive May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 September 2011 October 2011 Subscribe to this blog This blog by Nikki Reimer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.