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  • Two new anthologies feature JC Sulzenko poems

    THEMA LITERARY MAGAZINE’s summer 2025 issue features JC poem, “Gridlock.” JC thanks editor Virginia Howard for including her work on the theme of “a new routine.” “This narrative poem represents a hybrid experience, combining imagined and semi-autobiographical elements when I moved from Canada’s capital to its largest city. Will readers be able to distinguish the…

  • “The Break,” Marian Keyes, 2019 – a new review

    I admit I came to enjoy this easy read. The exploration of a marriage on hiatus and how that break affects the couple individually, their extended family, plus their network of friends, is both contemporary and relevant. The Irish setting with regular spells in London pleased me, as did the scope the novelist gave the…

  • Aeolus House welcomed 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 launched on Saturday, May 24 in Toronto at Society Clubhouse. JC welcomed the invitation from publisher Aeolus House to read at this afternoon celebration of Mary Lou’s fine poetry. JC choose selections from Life, after life–from epitaph to epilogue, her 2024 collection of found poems using words drawn from obituaries…

  • 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).…

  • 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…

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  • Two new anthologies feature JC Sulzenko poems

    THEMA LITERARY MAGAZINE’s summer 2025 issue features JC poem, “Gridlock.”

    JC thanks editor Virginia Howard for including her work on the theme of “a new routine.”

    “This narrative poem represents a hybrid experience, combining imagined and semi-autobiographical elements when I moved from Canada’s capital to its largest city. Will readers be able to distinguish the ‘fiction’ from the fact?” JC wondered. Here’s the link to that piece:

    https://themaliterarysociety.com/issues/NEW%20ROUTINE.htm

    (About THEMA from its website:  the journal “has three goals. One is to provide a stimulating forum for established and emerging literary and visual artists. The second is to serve as source material and inspiration for teachers of creative writing. The third is to provide readers with a unique and entertaining collection of stories, poems, art, and photography.)

    JC is delighted that “Chrysalis,” a found poem written under her pen name A. Garnett Weiss, is now etched onto a picnic tabletop in beautiful downtown Cobourg, Ontario.

    “Chrysalis” appears on the table dedicated to nature poems. It adds to her series of poems using words and phrases drawn from obituaries published in the GLOBE AND MAIL. Her first collection of such 5-line poems, LIFE AFTER LIFE—FROM EPITAPH TO EPILOGUE, published by Aeolus House in 2024.

    “Canada Day marked the unveiling of this table. I haven’t yet seen the poem in place but will when I give a reading in Cobourg on July 17 at the Thursday Reading Series. I look forward to this ‘first’ for me and my work. I thank the editors for including my poem,” JC added.

    Here’s the story about the project:

    Grand Unveiling of “Picnic on Poetry in Cobourg on Friday

  • “The Break,” Marian Keyes, 2019 – a new review

    I admit I came to enjoy this easy read. The exploration of a marriage on hiatus and how that break affects the couple individually, their extended family, plus their network of friends, is both contemporary and relevant. The Irish setting with regular spells in London pleased me, as did the scope the novelist gave the minor characters. RATING: 6.5/10

    For the full review and spoilers, click here.

  • Aeolus House welcomed 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 launched on Saturday, May 24 in Toronto at Society Clubhouse.

    JC welcomed the invitation from publisher Aeolus House to read at this afternoon celebration of Mary Lou’s fine poetry.

    JC 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.

    JC explained that she writes centos and found poetry under her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss. “To give me distance from my other poetry and licence to move toward more abstract forms of expression.”

    “I was honoured to read at the launch of Mary Lou’s luminous, memorable collection.,The hall was packed. The audience listened carefully to Dorothy Sandler-Glick, who read first, and then to me. The response from everyone there heartened me, ” JC noted. Here’s the poster for the event.

  • 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.

  • 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.