Roll of Nickels

When my husband was in the late stages of his terminal illness, he asked me to read him poetry.

As David St.

2025 was a very quiet year here at Roll of Nickels, as life and work demands derailed my grand ambitions.

I'm in my third year coordinating the Fraser Valley Writers Festival, and we're very excited about this year's lineup!

The following interview was originally published in the Hamilton Review of Books in August 2024.

Karan Kapoor: Your poems live inside questions — and often leave them unanswered.

The long poem has a somewhat singular history in Canadian literature.

The great masters both of the East and the West never forgot the value of suggestion as a means for taking the spectator into their confidence.

The following essay was originally published in the online poetics magazine The Woodlot in May 2024.

The following essay was originally delivered as a talk at the 2021 Fraser Valley Lit Fest.

Art can be defined as whatever an artist says it is - and anybody can declare themselves to be an artist.

2024 saw the publication of nine interviews here on the blog - seven originally published over at Read Local BC and one each from Arc Poetry Magazine (with Matt Rader) and The Antigonish Review (with Gillian Sze).

I decided I wanted to write poems on July 16th, 1999.

The work, in the small press, is more than the poem you are trying to write.

Sitting in Michael [Dennis]'s library [of some nine or ten thousand books of poetry] after he died, I though how different it feels as a reader compared to how it feels as a writer.

The following interview is part seven of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

The following interview is part six of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

The following interview is part five of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

The following interview is part four of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

The following interview is part three of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

The following interview is part two of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

The following interview is part one of a seven-part series of conversations with BC poets which were originally published between January and April 2024 at ReadLocalBC.ca.

This interview was first published in the Fall 2023 issue of The Antigonish Review.

An excerpt from this interview was first published in the Fall 2022 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine.

I had a wonderful time launching my new book, Weather, across BC in May, culminating in a hometown launch in Port Moody, hosted by Raoul Fernandes and featuring a reading by Kayla Czaga from her new book, Midway.