About JC
JC Sulzenko’s award-winning poetry appears in anthologies and journals in print and online either under her own name or her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss.
Bricolage: A Gathering of Centos (Aeolus House), her second book of poetry, was named a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2022 national Fred Kerner Award. Her centos had won the 2023 and 2019 Wind & Water Contests (County Arts.) Point Petre Publishing issued her debut collection of narrative and lyric poetry, South Shore Suite…POEMS, in 2017.
A full member of the League of Canadian Poets, JC serves on the Board of the Ontario Poetry Society. JC writes poetry on commission and creates impromptu poems as fundraisers for charitable causes. She welcomes opportunities to introduce her work to community groups.
What’s New
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Aeolus House welcomes JC Sulzenko as a guest reader at the May 24 launch of “Slender Certainties” by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes’ new collection launches at 2:00 PM on Saturday, May 24 in Toronto at Society Clubhouse.
JC welcomes the invitation from publisher Aeolus House to read at this afternoon celebration of Mary Lou’s fine poetry.
JC will choose selections from Life, after life–from epitaph to epilogue, her 2024 collection of found poems using words drawn from obituaries published in the Globe and Mail and from Bricolage, a Gathering of Centos, a finalist for the 2022 Fred Kerner Book Award from the Canadian Authors Association. She may also include a new poem or two.
JC writes centos and found poetry under her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss.
Doors open at 1:30 PM. Refreshments will be served. Here’s the poster for the event.
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A poem for earth day 2025
Wisdom
Summers claim children
curious to wander,
to befriend
a butterfly
on a leaf.
This found poem uses words or phrases drawn unaltered from death notices published in the January 23, 2023, Toronto Globe and Mail. It appears first in the poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue, by A. Garnett Weiss (Aeolus House, 2024). JC writes found poems and centos using that pseudonym.
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Poetry Super Highway posts JC’s writing prompt for National Poetry Month April 11: Department Store Blues
JC Sulzenko is delighted that Editor Rick Lupert posted her prompt for Friday, April 11.
Throughout National Poetry Month Poetry Super Highway posts a poetry-writing prompt per day.
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/april-11-2025-poetry-writing-prompt-from-jc-sulzenko/
Here’s her call:
If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group. #napowrimo #poetry
Has she taken her own prompt and written a poem from it? Watch this space to find out.
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JC Interview
Click on the “play” icon to hear JC on “The County Writes…The County Reads”, a program hosted by Lynn Pickering on 99.3 CountyFM in Prince Edward County. On Sunday, April 6, the show started with JC reading poems about families by poets she had met.
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