“I was delighted to appear on Thursday, July 17 with my most recent poetry collections, written under my pen name A. Garnett Weiss. Poems from Life after Life—from epitaph to epilogue took centre stage during my presentation. I also read from Bricolage, A Gathering of Centos, which was one of five finalists for the 2022 national Fred Kerner Book Award from the Canadian Authors Association, “ JC revealed.
“I was honoured to read at this fine series. I hope I was able to convince those in attendance that found poetry is ‘no second-class citizen’ but rather worthy of their attention.”
“While in town, I visited the site in a glorious lake-side park where my poem “Chrysalis” ‘ is among nature poems etched into a tabletop’s wood as part of the Picnic Table Anthology project. POETCHRY is a first for me!”
JC thanked poetry convenor James Pickersgill for inviting her to Cobourg and Kate Rogers who curated the poetry for the nature table.