JC joins ARTSCENE host Sarah Moran for this week’s broadcast which celebrates the prize-winning poetry and fiction entries in the 2023 Wind & Water Writing Contest, the 5th such competition sponsored by County Arts in Prince Edward County. JC, writing as A. Garnett Weiss, won first prize for her cento, “For our many moods, there […]
Posted on 30 May 2023 | 7:46 am
JC thanked the judges and convenors of the Prince Edward County Arts Council’s Annual Wind and Water Writing Contest for selecting her cento as the winning poetry entry. The cento “For our many moods, there is nothing like a lantern” uses lines drawn unaltered apart for reasons of punctuation from individual poems by 9 different […]
Posted on 23 May 2023 | 12:17 pm
The League of Canadian Poets declared April 21 as AL PURDY DAY to recognize his legacy. Published under her pseudonym A. Garnett Weiss, JC’s collection of centos, BRICOLAGE:A GATHERING OF CENTOS, features “Where love was slowly becoming possible,” based on Al’s poems. For the Art of Conversation joint project of the County Arts Council and the […]
Posted on 20 April 2023 | 2:21 pm
Editor Rick Lupert has assembled a collection of memorable poems from writers around the world to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is not an easy collection to read, but it is a courageous one. These poems and poets make unavoidable and important the act of remembering the scale of inhumanity of a nation driven to […]
Posted on 16 April 2023 | 8:31 am
Here’s the full text of the prompt that PSH Editor Rick Lupert posted on April 12: “If I had…” or roads not taken. Write a poem imagining/focussing on how your life or your subject’s life could have been changed or become different if one decision had been made that was different from what actually happened. […]
Posted on 15 April 2023 | 7:09 am
JC reads from her collection, Bricolage, A Gathering of Centos, at the Spring into Poetry in-person book launch, Saturday, April 15 at the Toronto Public Library’s Main Street Branch, 137 Main Street. IB Iskov, President and Founder of the Ontario Poetry Society (TOPS), and Aeolus House Publisher Allan Briesmaster co-host this TOPS event at which […]
Posted on 15 April 2023 | 6:31 am
JC was delighted with the turn-out for the April 11 ZOOM workshop on how to find a poem as a way to celebrate National Poetry Month! Whether erasure, black-out, or cut-up poetry intrigues (or all 3!), this hour-long interactive session engaged local and faraway participants in exploring the possibilities for creating an original work from […]
Posted on 10 April 2023 | 4:29 pm
JC Sulzenko participated in the Poetry Super Highway’s Great Poetry Exchange by sending a copy of her collection of centos to another poet whose address the US-based publisher provided. She wrote BRICOLAGE as A. Garnett Weiss, her pseudonym. Here’s the link to the list of poets whose work featured in this 2023 initiative: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great_poetry_exchange/ “This […]
Posted on 5 March 2023 | 8:22 am
JC Sulzenko’s five-line found poem, “Mission Extended,” appears in a new anthology edited and published by Ottawa’s English Poet Laureate. “I thank Albert Dumont for choosing this found poem for the anthology, launched in Ottawa on December 18, 2022. I am honoured that my work has gained a place in this fine collection.” JC writes […]
Posted on 29 December 2022 | 8:25 am
“Perchance to dream,” JC’s poem in response to “Amy and the Queen” by Atlanta artist Debbie Walker-Lass, appears in the November 2022 issue of the online literary journal, THE LIGHT EKPHRASTIC. Walker-Lass’s image “Cherish Togetherness Forever,” responds to JC’s found poem, “Recovery efforts,” written under her pseudonym A. Garnett Weiss. The five-line poem draws words […]
Posted on 24 November 2022 | 7:06 am
