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What Comes after Pain? Gendered Embodiment and Temporality in Chronic Pain Memoirs

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, In : events & contests & conferences & such

This is interesting. If I didn't have to work I would go.

Public Lecture: Professor Leigh Gilmore

86 million people worldwide have been diagnosed as

suffering from chronic pain, and the number is rising. As

chronic pain has increased, memoirs about the experience

have begun to appear. This talk examines a cluster of

chronic pain memoirs as a site for negotiating agency in the

face of irremediable pain, and the interleaving at this site of

biomedicine and narrative structure. Autobiogr...

Human cruelty in the name of science

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, September 12, 2011, In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare

This is bullshit:

Stop UBC Animal Research’s months-long investigation of UBC has revealed disturbing details about the university's research. For instance, one UBC researcher has experimented on cats for 30 years. In his papers, the researcher described how he had cut open the backs of cats to expose their vertebrae, inserted titanium screws into the cats' spinal columns to inhibit movement, and built restraint chambers around the cats' exposed vertebra to give researchers access to the cat...
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This Is East Van at the the Make It! Show!

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, April 16, 2011, In : Arts

I have been oh so busy and totes not keeping up with this blog. But amidst various other projectories, I am please to announce that the This Is East Van photobook, which features a photo of my dearest late Baba at the old Hatch (now Rhizome Cafe) can be viewed and purchased the Make It! Vancouver fair, on now at the Croatian Cultural Centre.

Deets from TIEV website:

Join THIS IS EAST VAN April 15 - 17 at the Make It! Show.

We couldn't think of a better place than the Spring Make It! show to pre...

m. nourbeSe PHILIP: Tuesday March 8 at KSW!

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, March 6, 2011, In : events & contests & conferences & such

I can't make this due to a work commitment. But you should totally go.

m. nourbeSe PHILIP

Tuesday March 8, 2011

W2 Community Meeting Space, Woodward's Heritage Building

111 W Hastings St. - Suite 250

Doors 7, Reading 7:30

M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, writer, and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada. She is the author of She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988), Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991), Frontiers: Essays...

The Capilano Review 3.13 Manifestos Now! Launch |Feb. 22, VAG

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, February 19, 2011, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Announcing The Capilano Review

3.13 Manifestos Now!

This special issue of Canadian and international manifestos—including work from Christian Bök, Marie-Hélène Tessier, Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, Gregory Betts, Derek Beaulieu, Frank Da...

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Open Letter to Premier Campbell regarding the Howling Dog Tours / Outdoor Adventures Sled Dog Cull

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, February 2, 2011, In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare

A version of this letter has been sent to the Globe, the Sun, the Province, the Times Colonist.

Thanks to Kulpreet Singh's 12 Steps You Can Take post and Julia Trop's Dog Sled Cull post.

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February 1, 2011

Premier Gordon Campbell

RE: Howling Dog Tours / Outdoor Adventures Sled Dog Cull

I am deeply concerned about the recent execution of 100 dogs by Whistler sled dog company Howling Dog Tours. I believe that you were as distressed and horrified as I was to learn that these perfectly health...
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Blackout, Revisited | Enpipe Line, Enacted

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, In : poetry & poetics

Posted 1/24/11 on Lemon Hound.

The current issue of Vancouver lit magazine Subterrain has published essays by writers Elizabeth Bachinsky and Alex Leslie on their BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR project, an erasure-as-intervention experimental poetry response to the Vancouver Olympics on which I posted last February. The poems, created by visitors to the bar during the 14 day Olympic occupation, were unable to be printed in Subterrain due to "copyright concerns," however Alex has posted a sampling, o...
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Screaming Weenie's Clean Sheets 2011

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, In : events & contests & conferences & such

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
07 December 2010

Screaming Weenie's CLEAN SHEETS 2011 Announced

VANCOUVER, BC - Screaming Weenie Productions is pleased to announce the 2011
edition of our Clean Sheets annual development series of original
Queer-themed plays. Screaming Weenie's Clean Sheets will take place in
August at the Roundhouse Performance Centre in Vancouver as part of the 2011
Queer Arts Festival.

Curated by Vancouver theatre artists Seán Cummings and C. E. Gatchalian,
Screaming Weenie's Clean Sheets ...
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Failure! (I did not read 95 books this year)

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, January 3, 2011, In : Book Review

I was the desperate little caboose (with a giant caboose) trying to think his way to the top of the mountain….alas, alack. I failed. I spent too much time on the internets, likely, and not enough focused time inside a book. There’s always next year, yes?

My last three:

83. The Obituary by Gail Scott.

Like, fuck, yeah. Again. More. Again.

84. Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed by Jacob Wren

Narrative how narrative was meant to be written, and read. Brutally darkly comic indictmen...

Jordan Scott: Flub and Utter

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, December 15, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

Posted to Lemon Hound on Monday, December 13

'Tis mid-December, several days till solstice, several more days till the Festival of Plastic. I've spent the day in a mild state of panic, wrapping various locally-purchased, artist/isan-made items in locally-purchased brown kraft paper to stuff in my suitcase, as if any of that can absolve my participation in the annual consumer-capitalist wet dream. This is the opposite of poetry.

Here's some actual poetry, conceived and filmed by the National Fi...
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Just Twelve Bars: On Adam Seelig's Every Day in the Morning (Slow)

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, December 2, 2010, In : Book Review

Posted to Lemon Hound on Monday, November 29, 2010.

My first problem, after reading Adam Seelig’s Every Day in the Morning (Slow), and having decided to review it, involved how to curb my penchant for superlatives, chiefly because, let’s be honest, it reads as unlearned and juvenile, and secondarily because I wanted to shout that the work is orginal! breathtaking! brilliant! inspiring! when the very words have been rendered meaningless by overuse.

Fuck.

Ok, Every Day in the Morning (Slow) sc...
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Vancouver is Awesome's Donor Drive!!

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, November 26, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Dear Friends and Family,

As you may know, I am volunteer editor of the community based non-profit organization Vancouver is Awesome, an organization that is very important to me as well as Vancouver.

Today I'm asking for your help in the form of a financial donation. Your support means we can continue to celebrate our amazing city, create events, and support other individuals and organizations that are making Vancouver the arts and culture hub we all enjoy.

Money raised will cover everythin...

Saccharinity

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, November 22, 2010, In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare

Copper, you’re my very best friend.

And you’re mine too, Tod.

And we’ll always be friends forever. Won’t we?

Yeah, forever
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Inventory, Inventoried

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, November 21, 2010, In : Book Review

This post was published to the Lemon Hound Blog on Monday, November 15. I had fun figuring out how to make a chart in html.
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Inventory, Inventoried

An Inventory after Marguerite Pigeon's Inventory. (Anvil Press, 2009).

Legend for Categories
S = Selling
C = Conceptualism
B = Biography
P = Pages
I = Interviews
R = Reviews
M = Miscellanea

Category	Item
S	There are no customer reviews yet
C	Object as muse
B	A writer of poetry and fiction
R	Pigeon was recently a participant in the Studio.
S	Year: 2009
P	Sketch of...

Lost Westie Puppy in East Van | Please keep yr eyes open

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, November 8, 2010, In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare

Dupe! Launch Tonight!

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, November 6, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Saturday, November 6
1067 Granville Street (alley entrance)
Doors at 7 reading at 830
BYOB
linebooks.ca

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Indexical Elegies, Indexed

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, November 1, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

Posted November 1, 2010 to Lemon Hound.

Jon Paul Fiorentino's latest poetry book is Indexical Elegies, out recently from Coach House. Though the book's cover includes the words "Includes index", no index was included in my copy. I thought this a grave oversight and sought to rectify it.

Herewith, an incomplete index on Indexical Elegies.

Death, 70
all the expensive/whiskey at your wake, 52
all the way to hospice, 41
appalled I grieve, 36
at the floodway burying Saturday, 70
but in dead event (Gilbert...
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halloween, east van style

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, November 1, 2010, In : East Van Walk

Respondency*West 2010

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, October 31, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Respondency*West 2010
http://respondencywest.wordpress.com/
http://www.kswnet.org

The KSW with the support of the Canada Council is very proud to provide another Respondency*West series, based on Margaret Christakos’ ongoing lecture and reading series The Influency Salon. We are indebted to her continued investigations into community, learning and sharing of poetic knowledge.

All events will take place at the People’s Co-Op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Drive, where the books by these authors w...
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still my favourite found poem of all time

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, October 22, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

Life
The Principal Sum.
Both Hands
The Principal Sum.
Both Feet
The Principal Sum.
Entire Sight of Both Eyes
The Principal Sum.
One Hand and One Foot
The Principal Sum.
One Hand and the Entire Sight of One Eye
The Principal Sum.
One Foot and the Entire Sight of One Eye
The Principal Sum.
Speech and Hearing in Both Ears
The Principal Sum.
One Arm
Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum.
One Leg
Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum.
One Hand
Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum.
One Foot
Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum...
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Review of kevin mcpherson eckhoff's Game Show Reversed

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, October 22, 2010, In : Book Review

Posted to Lemon Hound on Monday, October 18
book review reversed

And as usual, the Book Thug chap is a perfect objet d’arte. Lick it. Love it. Read it. Wear it. Though la letter fits. (That last utterance was spousoid again, not eckhoff.)

“Are there no poets with their name beginning in G?”

That, and it’s a pleasurable read. Sometimes I get frustrated by conceptual works, but here is one that brings a focus on language and utterance to the fore.

“You said a mouthful.”

Surely Yankovic c...

Existentiality & the Breath Line in Artie Gold’s “some of the cat poems”

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

Posted to Meta-Talon on Tuesday, October 12, 2010

by Nikki Reimer

“There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.” -Dan Greenberg

Though allergic, Artie Gold lived with up to 3 cats at a time, if his autobiographically-arranged poetry is to be believed, & he seems to have regarded them with simultaneous bemused detachment & impassioned affection.

An introduction credited to “The shortstop of the heart” (perhaps either Cat or Gold himsel...

For the Love of Elephants

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare

On Thursday I am going to come home from work and watch this Nature of Things documentary. I'll prolly cry a bunch, too. That's how I roll.

For the Love of Elephants - Trailer from Make Believe Media on Vimeo.

Ted Baryluk's Grocery | NFB film

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, October 11, 2010, In : Ukrainians

Via Anu. I just watched this video and cried and cried and cried. Ted's friend Stefan's funny face and small stature reminded my of my great-Dido, and I haven't heard those Slavic dulcet-toned English phrases in 24 years since my great-grandparents died within 9 months of each other. I haven't heard Ukrainian spoken regularly since my grandfather died in 1992 and Baba could only talk in her mother's tongue to the ladies at church. Ted in this film talks the way my great-grandparents talked...
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my head is huge

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, October 11, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Literary Death Match on W2TV from Sid Tan on Vimeo.

Literary Death Match Vancouver | October 8 @W2Storyeum

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, October 3, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Vancouver

LDM100: October 8, 2010

Save a few bucks - buy tickets now!

We've been eyeballing our northern neighbor for Literary Death Match purposes since this whole shindig began — but now, finally, we are beyond eager to (finally) make our LDM debut in Canada, with LDM100: Vancouver!

Boasting a kneecap-tingling assortment of literary and humorous dextrousness, the flair-fueied evening will feature eclectic judges like Talent Time host Paul Anthony, the dazzling comedian/actor Diana Frances, an...

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...

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...

Tranna

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, In : blog blog blog

I am here.

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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...
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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.

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...

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...

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...

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:

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...
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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...
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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.

Gone Fishin'

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

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
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Happy Birthday Dido

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, August 28, 2010, In : Genealogy Saturday

8/27/30 - 4/25/92

Would have been 80 today. The gentlest of men. A glass of rye whiskey on the rocks in your honour, sir.

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Malahat Review Open Season Contest

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, August 27, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

The Malahat Review Open Season Awards

Deadline: November 1, 2010
$1000 Prize in each of three categories
Submit work in any of our three marquee genres: poetry, short fiction, or creative non-fiction. Poetry: up to three poems per entry (max. 100 lines each); Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: one piece (max 2500 words)
Fees: $35 CAD for Canadians
$40 USD for US entries
$45 USD for entries from elsewhere
(entry fee includes a one-year subscription)
For more information:
h...

95BooksBlog read #67

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, August 26, 2010, In : Book Review

67. THE HAYFLICK LIMIT BY MATTHEW TIERNEY

Like somebody else posted here a while ago, summer is a difficult time for reading with any consistency. One picks something up, reads it a bit, puts it down, picks up something else, and etc.

However I’m working away at about 3 or 4 books right now, and I did finish this little book a while ago.

Tierney’s poetry is good, just not for me, I think. I wrote the following in my notebook:

I can tell that I’ve lived in Vancouver for a relatively long ti...

outside Vancouver Maritime Museum

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, August 21, 2010, In : blog blog blog

Some recent online writing

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, August 9, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

I haven't been cross-posting pieces I've written elsewhere to this blog, which is perhaps a mistake, as I have ownership over this site (archival purposes) and also I have no idea who (if anyone) is reading this.

Nevertheless, I've recently posted the following online:

On Lemon Hound, a cheeky read of the movie Bright Star:

A Few Things I Learned About Life as a Poet from Watching Bright Star

I approached this movie ready to be snarky and suspicious. No romantic frippery for this lady, in either ...

spam or poetry SUNDAY!

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, August 8, 2010, In : spam OR poetry? wednesday

This one made it into my inbox, rather than my spam folder.

Buuy aany perscription mdeicine you colud possilby neeed

"Her illusion wouldn't work here in Mundania, dummy," Irene retorted. We havee maany reuglar byuers duee to oour faast delviery and a pricniple of fuull cilent's privcay!

And so The Journalist told Dan about how the construction of the Starship Titanic had bankrupted the planet of Yassacca, and how Star-Struct Inc. had then removed the construction work, without paying their debt...
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not quite as funny as lost cat but in the same vein

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, August 6, 2010, In : blog blog blog

Nikki Reimer

to Greg

Aug 5

Do you have time to help me design a business card?

I just want it to say my name and contact info in a sexy modern yet professional looking font.

Sincerely,

Girl Tenant

---------------------------

Greg

to me

Aug 5

done.

erasure & Harryette Mullen

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, August 3, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

My writing class this past week seemed only moderately successful, however I believe we were all lethargic from the heat. I vow to do better next week.

I did read them the first poem from Harryette Mullen's S*PeRM**K*T, which, though out of print, is highly highly recommended. Louis Cabri included a Mullen poem in his "poetry pack" at his recent KSW Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics seminar, which inspired me to pull S*PeRM**K*T off the ol' shelf and give it a re-read.

We are all poet-con...

pictures of writers

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, July 29, 2010, In : blog blog blog

Made me feel so won-der-ful
Pictures of writ-ers
Helped me sleep at night----

Taken last night at the Alibi room at our monthly women writer's dinner, using Alex's Canon which made no sense to Nikon-me. Ironically or not, these may be my best photos of writers yet.

when AM i going to make a living?

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, July 26, 2010, In : blog blog blog

Anu sent this video to me this morning. I think it is my life. Note the saxophone man and the cat running across the screen at the end. Also the archway they walk through looks eerily like this:

Ok, maybe only in my dreams. Let me have my fantasy. Now I must wander the city in a trenchcoat and MAC Russian Red lipstick.

spam OR poetry wednesday OR thursday

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, July 23, 2010, In : spam OR poetry? wednesday

but labyrinths and

somnambulists goes to sleep beyond barely

for amorously

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Open Letter to East Van Pet Lovers

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, July 23, 2010, In : East Van Walk

Okay folks. This should be pretty straightforward, but for those who are unaware: We have many critters in our urban environment. Critters like crows, skunks, raccoons and coyotes. The thing about wild critters, especially raccoons and coyotes, is sometimes they like to fight or hunt. They like to fight or hunt animals that are their size or a little bit smaller. Animals like your pets.

If your pets go outside--and I know the animal welfare orgs. advocate that they don't, but I also know that...
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music at lunch in Hastings Sunrise

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, July 22, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

Neat.

Riley Park Little Mountain, July 15 2010

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, July 16, 2010, In : East Van Walk

"Special interest groups"

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, In : blog blog blog

@Hwy1 By special interest groups (RE: "taxpayers paying for things in which they are uninvolved and or dis-interested") are you referring to

Highways, for those who don't drive?

Elder care, for those without aged parents?

Childcare, for those without children?

Healthcare, for those without illness?

Corporate subsidies, for those opposed to big business?

Libraries, for the illiterate?

Armed services, for the pacifists?

Heritage groups, for those who don't see the value in heritage?

Em...
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Writing back to the newspaper

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, In : Arts

My response to the G&M article "B.C. arts groups blast funding cuts".

@libndp-terminator: The argument that the private sector should fund the arts ignores the fact that many industries in the private sector are funded by the government directly or indirectly through tax incentives, or moves like the recent HST (BC and Ontario, not sure where else) that took a tax away from business and transferred it to consumers. The oil industry is subsidized by the government. Health care is subsidized by ...
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from Wednesday's writing class

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, July 3, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

Words that start with p

preclude
pestilence
persnickety
pantomime
petunia
persimmons
palimpsest
plenitude
presbyterian

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animals & animality and just act natural | kingston

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

I am super excited to attend the Animals & Animality Interdisciplinary Conference taking place this weekend at Queen's University. I've never been to Kingston and hope it treats me well. The temp when I land is supposed to be 27 C, which will be a shocker from the mid-teens and clouds we've had in Vancouver since, oh, February?

Also my "East Van Cats" piece will take part in the adjunct Just Act Natural art exhibition, which is also exciting for me because it's my first show, and also I'm ve...
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the new normal

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 19, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

The introduction I wrote for Nicole Markotić's reading tonight at KSW's Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics series.

Poet, critic, novelist and teacher Nicole Markotic writes fault lines of sensation. She pictures lapsed Mormons and ruminates Alexander Graham Bell in the 19^th or 20^th century, where telephone voices call problem bodies. Markotic invents the telephone all over again with sympathetic vibrations, memories, confessions, misunderstood gestures with tongue and femur. Syllables ...

spam OR poetry wednesday?

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, In : spam OR poetry? wednesday

yufm jonka ixe

came running from the building to join her.

attitude is a little melodramatic. No--not on the bed. Draw a

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3 am prose fragment

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, June 11, 2010, In : 3 am prose fragment

I was always waiting around for the Big Other to tell me what to do, to give me a sign. I couldn't tell if I was stupid or not. I went off meat but then bled 15 days out of 30 and had to go back on, rather in, by which I mean the animals went in my mouth and I swallowed. We were 17, and ravenous, and we made the mother cook spaghetti for us at 2 in the morning. This is what comes from organized sport and international travel for teens. Everyone we knew in high school had acquired jobs and hou...
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because i know at least daniel is reading this......

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, In : spam OR poetry? wednesday

that's right, kids. another installment of the ever popular SPAM OR POETRY? WEDNESDAY!!!!!

boci upuy poa
Spam X

and fifty strong, was nothing to speak of artistically--a square believing they could sell it out to him at a slightly higher price. The

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east van walk 6.7.10

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, In : East Van Walk

T&T Supermarket at Renfrew & 1st Ave

Hastings Park & PNE "Master Plan" Open House | June 10 -23

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

I wrote some emails a while back about the egregious BC Arts Cuts, which got me on the mailing lists of BC Provincial MLA for Vancouver-West End and Official Opposition Critic for Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Spencer Chandra Herbert, and Vancouver-Hastings MLA Shane Simpson.

Good thing that, as they both frequently send out news I can use.

For example, did you know that a consultation process is underway regarding the redesign/ redevelopment of Hastings Park & the PNE (fans of Oana Avasilichi...
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this is your uterus on drugs

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, June 7, 2010, In : blog blog blog

Or, Poly Poly Poly Poly Polymenorrhea! (to the tune of Karma Chameleon)

Well, I missed the Trout Lake poetry picnic at which I was supposed to read. And I feel like a giant asshole. Or, to be more precise, a giant uterus. A giant uterus that makes promises and then doesn't fulfill them. An unreliable uterus.

--Hey, anybody seen that giant uterus?

Nah, it never shows up when it says it's going to.

--What a jerk uterus!

I know, right?

I'm going to see what I can work into Urban Dictionary. Also, I...
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east van walk | June 3, 2010

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Sunday, June 6, 2010, In : East Van Walk

The Mendoza Lane House
missed the open house for it in May...

but you can see more of it on the lanefab website

Burrardview Park

got non-fiction? want money? | malahat review creative non-fiction contest

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : events & contests & conferences & such

The Malahat Review's Creative Non-Fiction Prize

Deadline: August 1, 2010
Prize: $1000 CAD
Submit one work of creative non-fiction between 2000 and 3000 words in length. No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply.
Entry fee: $35 CAD for Canadians
$40 USD for entries from the United States
$45 USD for entries from elsewhere
(entry fee includes a one year subscription to The Malahat Review)
For more information:

http://www.malahatreview.ca/creative_non-fiction_prize/info.html
Enquiries: ma...

OLSON conference CLOSING at the KSW | Sunday June 6 from 8:00 onwards

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : poetry & poetics

closing party for the Charles Olson Centenary Conference

featuring poetry readings by:

Charles Alexander
Carla Billitteri
Michael Boughn
Victor Coleman
Ben Friedlander
David Herd
Jeanne Heuving
GP Lainsbury
Kim Minkus
Peter O'Leary
Richard Owens
John Roche
Lytle Shaw
Jonathan Skinner
Sharon Thesen
Jacqueline Turner

Sunday June 6
W2 Storyeum
151 W. Cordova St -- [NOTE our new address!]
8:00 pm

THIS READING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC guests not registered at or participating in the Olson conference are encouraged to a...
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sick sick sick [sic]

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : [sic]

I've been sick since my latest trip to Calgary, at which I attended a book club in my old home of Woodbine and hosted a party at Comrad Sound with readings by ryan fitzpatrick and Claire Lacey, and some really terrific music by Church of the Very Bright Lights and the ever lovely Morgan Greenwood. It was one of those rare, perfect evenings of warmth and friendship.

The first week home brought Aunt Flo and the Flu. The second week brought a severe depressive episode, and the end of the second w...
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feed a cold, starve justin bieber?

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, May 29, 2010, In : Recipe

That's what you're supposed to do, right?

My sweetie cooked me up this concoction to help with a sore throat - head cold thing that reared it's nasty bacterial head when I got home from my trip.

Pickles, salsa and beer all made by J. I had to eat the terminally garlicky pickle, take a sip of beer, eat a garlic clove, then repeat. Then I downed the level 10 salsa. I'm not sure if it helped push the cold along faster or not, but it sure was entertaining.

Kudos to MLA and Arts & Culture Critic Spencer Chandra Herbert

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, May 27, 2010, In : Arts

I've posted verbatim Herbert's recent newsletter on the BC government's gaming grants cuts:

Dear Friends of BC Arts and Culture,

This week we learned that the BC Liberal government has dealt another blow to the arts and culture community. It was brought to light that the limited gaming funds announced in the March 2010 Budget in fact exclude a large number of the arts and culture festivals and programs for children previously believed to be supported by the gaming branch.

In the March 2010 Budg...
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hot rum toddy recipe

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, In : Recipe

We are sick.

Got mom to email this.

HOT RUM TODDY

CREAM TOGETHER:

2 TSP BROWN SUGAR

1 TSP BUTTER

ADD 1 – 2 TSP LEMON JUICE

ADD 1 – 2 OZ. RUM

STIR IN 1 CUP OF BOILING WATER

OPTIONAL:

SPRINKLE NUTMEG, CINNAMON, GROUND GINGER, POWDERED CLOVES

YUM!

this is the new blog; just like the old blog.

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, In : blog blog blog

Welcome to the new blog. Some posts will migrate from the old blog, like Genealogy Saturday posts. Other posts will be new and off the cuff, fresh from my mind like a newly squeezed lemon. Enjoy.
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genealogy saturday

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, May 13, 2010, In : Genealogy Saturday

Dido (my Ukrainian grandfather) walking in (I think) Saskatoon, circa early or mid-1950s.

genealogy saturday

Posted by Nikki Reimer on Thursday, May 13, 2010, In : Genealogy Saturday

The Cherwoniak / Zelichowski Story

Andrew Cherwoniak (1893-1987) and Theophilia (Phyllis) Zelichowski (1903-1986) wed October 31, 1929 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Text written by Shirley Watson in 1980s and modified by Nikki Reimer in 2010.

The Cherwoniak family emigrated from Austrian Empire in 1897. They brought five of their seven children (two had died prior to emigration.) The boat docked in Halifax, N.S. and by September 1897, they had settled on land at Gimli, Manitoba. Using bra...
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