For my peeps outside of Halifax, this is a poem I read at a reading last night for a new Halifax chapbook released by Frog Hollow Press. 

It was a lovely night of poetry, a good antidote for inauguration day.

Divine

I think what I'm missing most is levity. Playing where there is play and what deserves reimagining and remaking starting right here.

A found poem is created from using an existing piece of writing - in this case a newspaper article - and selecting words from it to form the poem. Also an erasure poem since I kept the words in the order that they appear & erased the others.

How to Make a Mask: Found Poem by Nanci Lee

Mummichog is a poem that Genevieve Lehr and I wrote for an online collection coming up "Spellbound by Nature" by Arts Health Antigonish (Ed., Liz Brennan). The children's poetry initiative aims to call attention to some of the lesser-known creatures and plants in M'ikmaki (Nova Scotia). Mummichog is a Narragansett word from the Algonquin people of now Rhode Island meaning "traveling in crowds." Was good fun writing it with Gen!  This poem is dedicated to Declan Nicholson.

Mummichog (Fundulus Heteroclitus)

Dark wave, nu- and dark disco, piano, poetry, punk, funk, arab, electronic. Whatever strikes or moves me. An old punker and metal head, I love remixes that renew old tunes and cross genres. Great music has always been trans.

Nanci Lee

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