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: