The Vagabond Trust
Writers At Home In Migration

Hey peeps,

Katie gave a fab interview about our doings to the Torontoist books editor. Chekkit!

Hey Eastern Railcats:
Another great Vagabond Reads is speeding down the tracks to This Ain’t the Rosedale Library, this Friday February 12.

Our big literary Valentine to the city . . . chekkit:
http://thevagabondtrusttoronto.wordpress.com/

Heart,
Campeye

Hey there,

I found a good website devoted to Rose Blanche, NFLD. (our first overnight stop back on the ought eight voyage). It deals mostly with the community’s landmark lighthouse and five eerie shipwrecks which occurred just off its coast. Check it out in the Links.

JT

I also thought you folks might be keen to submit to the on-line lit. journal Word Riot. There is some good stuff there and they seem to be committed to keeping on keeping on.

CCJT

It is with great, sagely pride I announce the full induction of two new kick-ass writers to the traveling fold:

Sundog Tremolo Erin Keating in Fredericton, and

Sagebrush Tiger Blair Trewartha in Toronto.

Erin is a much sought-after female proser out for blood with her ink sword.

Blair is the steadfast, beating poetic pulse in Tdot joining Sweetback Twist and Campeye Comet directing the Trust chapter in town.

Blair is also launching a chapbook “Break In” in the T-dot on Feb. 4.

CC JT

Hey Everybody,

If you want to check out Jake Powning’s website you can do so here:

http://www.powning.com/jake/home/j_homepg.shtml

Very cool artist!

-Eagle Eye

Hogtown/Cowtown/Saint City Update my national migrants . . .

Darrah and I are still hopping rails across the country, officially against the concept of “permanent address”. D just had a play reading in T-dot in early January (let’s nudge her for details). As for Campeye, this Fall I’ve been fortunate enough to have work published in The Fiddlehead, CV2 and GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose. Like our Cannonball Captain, I am now working on a novel. Yeehaw, as they say in the unWilds of the West.

The best news to come out of the Western East to date, however, is that Darrah and I have teamed up with a most stellar bloke, Blair Trewartha. He is our Hogtown Anchor, our ‘Nautical Outlast’ if you will. Blair is launching his chapbook of poetry, “Break In” (Cactus Press) at the Misunderstandings magazine launch Thursday Feb 4, 7:30 PM at the Black Swan Tavern in Toronto. Hopefully he will join us for the 2010 Writers Expedition.

Speaking of expeditions . . . word on the web is that we now have our own tent! All we need now is a Powning sword. And maybe some beans. And a video camera.

Let’s get on the itinerary. Skype summit!! Doughnut Philosopher, you’re in charge of technifying the Merrytimes chapter so we can convene.

Tally-ho, rally-yo!
Campeye Comet

PS> JAN 28!! http://www.fernohouse.com/pubs/dinosaur-porn/

Ice in the beer,

However cold we may get

the tanks must get scrubbed.

Plastic Buffalo in a Closing Down Town

From a steel mold

In a rusting factory,

With heat and inedible soup

Am I made.

I make no noise

I know not myself

I am shipped…

(Sold.)

(Cheap.)

(Stolen by the tenderest hands.

Passed on twenty three times.

Like a kiss.)

The distance travelled, meanwhile:

I have been thrown around a subway in a giant city,

I have been cuddled, kept inside a cotton breast pocket in a ghetto,

I have been hurled from the patio of a tower suite,

and I have also found myself here:

Grand Bruit, NFLD.

The waterfall in the centre of town roars like a dying king.

There are few people left here,

and the ones left are leaving.

I have been placed on a windowsill:

A plastic totem with the duty of

witnessing this greying,

noting this vanishing.

“Respond. Respond. Respond. Respond.

Please God,

Let me respond.”

The Vagabond Trust is starting a Toronto Chapter. Founded in the Maritimes, the group creates space for writers to workshop, showcase and create their work through a writers group, reading series and annual expedition. The group are professional poets, prose writers and theatre artists who have had their respective work published or performed across Canada. Interested writers should submit a resume, writing sample (3 poems/5pages of fiction/non-fiction or writing for screen/television) and short paragraph about why you would like to become a member of The Trust to: thevagabondtrust@gmail.com.