http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp Maurice Mierau Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:29:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last summer I spent about a week in John Berryman's archives in Minneapolis. I wrote an essay about the experience for CV2's last open issue, which you can read an excerpt from here. Sifting through Berryman's manuscripts and correspondence was humbling and fascinating. I still haven't digested it all. Since writing the essay: I've ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=375 Canadian Notes and Queries just came out with issue 78, and a review of Fear Not appears there under the smart-ass and amusing title, Yea, Though I Read Through an Ocean of Cheesy Sub-headings, I Will Fear No Evil. Here's part of what reviewer Adam Sol says: ".... by putting flesh ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=371 As writer in residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, I invited Vancouver poet Elise Partridge to Winnipeg for a couple of events in spring 2010. Elise is the author of two wonderful collections of poetry that everyone should read, Fielder's Choice (Signal) and Chameleon Hours (Anansi). Elise has ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=358 Fear Not has won the 9th annual ReLit Award in the poetry category; the winner in short fiction is Lisa Foad for The Night is a Mouth, and the winner for the novel is Michael Blouin for Chase and Haven. I will appear at the ReLit Award Celebration in Ottawa ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=321 You can read a new on-line interview of me talking about Canadian poetry and publishing with Jonathan Ball, posted on his blog here. http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=312 I'm happy to announce that I've been named as the Winnipeg Public Library's Writer-in-Residence for 2009-10, succeeding playwright Bruce McManus. My term will begin on Oct. 1, 2009, and continue through the end of June, 2010. I'll be available for consultation two days per week at the Millennium Library. See the ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=290 When John Updike passed away earlier this year I decided to re-read his volume of memoirs, Self-Consciousness, which I hadn't looked at since it was published in 1989. It is a marvelous book, and confirms everything good about Updike that I'd almost forgotten as he slogged prolifically through the last ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=280 On the evening of April 9th the four shortlisted poets for the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry read at Aqua Books. The shortlisted authors: Rosanna Deerchild, Laurent Poliquin, Kerry Ryan, and me. Bookstore owner and host Kelly Hughes gave an entertaining rant about the merits of cake at ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=270 In case you're wondering, T.I.P. stands for Tonight It's Poetry. When I arrived half an hour early on the evening of March 15th to an empty bar in downtown Saskatoon, I decided that T.I.P. must be a code word for Tonight It's clear the Pub. But I was, happily, very ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=248 On the morning of March 3rd I read to Reinhold Kramer's Canadian Literature class. Reinhold is the author of a really fine recent biography of Mordecai Richler, and we were in graduate school together near the dawn of time, although we can't agree on whether we were both in Robert ... http://www.mauricemierau.com/wp/?p=243