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Passion Flowers, Gulf Fritillary Butterflies, and Cultural Exoticism
A friend of mine, born and raised in Toronto, commented that my growing up Cajun seemed to her exotic, colourful—the unique food, music, and language of the Cajuns, whose population is...
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Blue Flag at Bayou Sauvage
Awakening from August blog slump . . . more to come soon. Below, a blue flag floating on the water at Bayou Sauvage, a wildlife refuge a few miles to the east of New Orleans, photographed during a...
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Katrina fifth anniversary: PBS documentary
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I just saw a recently released PBS Frontline documentary, Law and Disorder, that shows that justice is finally coming to some of those who were...
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Poetry’s 49th Parallel: Canadian/American Shibboleths
Is this a Canadian poet? Is this Canadian poetry? I photo-shopped the above image of myself because I’ve never taken such a staged picture of myself. And I’ve never really experienced an...
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“Chafing at the Margins”: An Interview with Joel Dailey
["I’ve reveled in obscurity my whole writing life, and publishing with presses that were close to the ground, or even underground, well, they were a fit for my work, which is chafing at the...
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