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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
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A poem for earth day 2025
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Poetry Super Highway posts JC’s writing prompt for National Poetry Month April 11: Department Store Blues
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JC Interview
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with JC Sulzenko
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Review by Blaine Marchand
Blaine Marchand reviews Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue for The Ontario Poetry Society’s magazine, Verse Afire An upcoming issue of Verse Afire, the flagship semi-annual magazine from The Ontario Poetry Society, will feature Ottawa poet Blaine Marchand’s definitive review of JC’s third poetry collection, published under her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss. Life, after…
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K. V. Skene reviews LIFE, AFTER LIFE–FROM EPITAPH TO EPILOGUE
Please check out Ontario poet K. V. Skene’s thoughtful and welcome response to JC’s 3rd poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue.
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JC’s New Website (2025)
Welcome to JC Sulzenko’s new website, which retained and updated the most important information from her 2012 site.
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New book review: John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley: In Search of America”
JC returns to sharing short reviews of books particularly those which she scores high. Go to Bookends on this site to read about Steinbeck’s 1962 memoir or click on this direct link. JC finds it prescient and gives it a rating of 8/10.
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January 20, 2025—A Lament
A poem for today, January 20, 2025, written in 2017 and published in A. Garnett Weiss’s 2024 poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue. The poem is entitled “Trumped.”
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Review by Blaine Marchand
Blaine Marchand reviews Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue for The Ontario Poetry Society’s magazine, Verse Afire
An upcoming issue of Verse Afire, the flagship semi-annual magazine from The Ontario Poetry Society, will feature Ottawa poet Blaine Marchand’s definitive review of JC’s third poetry collection, published under her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss.
Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue offers over 60 found poems which use words and phrases drawn unaltered from obituaries published in the Globe and Mail.
Marchand’s cogent observations about this, her second book of found poems, include these quotes:
“…the poet creates tankas that are exquisitely beautiful, insightful, compelling, and haunting.”
“…these epilogues are tributes that encapsulate the nuances and fleeting moments that shape human life and emotions.”
“Over and over, these poems literally take one’s breath away, which is indeed a fit metaphor for such a book.”
JC thanks Blaine Marchant for sharing his insights into Life, after life, which Aeolus House published in the fall of 2024.
To read the review in full, click here.
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K. V. Skene reviews LIFE, AFTER LIFE–FROM EPITAPH TO EPILOGUE
Please check out Ontario poet K. V. Skene’s thoughtful and welcome response to JC’s 3rd poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue.
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JC’s New Website (2025)
Welcome to JC Sulzenko’s new website, which retained and updated the most important information from her 2012 site.
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New book review: John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley: In Search of America”
JC returns to sharing short reviews of books particularly those which she scores high. Go to Bookends on this site to read about Steinbeck’s 1962 memoir or click on this direct link. JC finds it prescient and gives it a rating of 8/10.
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January 20, 2025—A Lament
A poem for today, January 20, 2025, written in 2017 and published in A. Garnett Weiss’s 2024 poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue.
Trumped
Underhanded ways, shortcuts
wallpaper incorrigible pranksters
who thought nothing of hiding things,
weaving an unfiltered outlook, a myriad
of erratic logistics into action around the world.
Found poem sources: words and phrases drawn unaltered from obituary articles and death notices published in the April 29, 2017, Toronto Globe and Mail.