Ever Been To Winnipeg?

Somehow, Winnipeg arose in our conversation. There were three of us at first, shooting the breeze at last week’s Medicine Beach bread pick-up.

By the time others joined us, we learned that everyone had grown up in the Peg or spent large swaths of time there — except me.

In the late 1960s, my family stopped there on the way home from the Maritimes, where we often visited our eastern relatives in the summer.… Continue reading

The Sweet Showers of April

Michael McLure at Last Waltz concert, 1976, reading from The Canterbury Tales

Watch and listen to U.S. poet Michael McClure (above) recite an excerpt from the General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The poem, from the late 1300s, is one of the first great works of literature when English as we know it was taking shape.… Continue reading