The Vagabond Trust
Writers At Home In Migration

Howdy NET!
The folks over on feathertale.com (the humour lit. site) have posted my poem If You Turned Into an Alien, How Would I know if You Still Love Me? this past Monday. Please check it out!

Hey there,

A couple of young upstarts named Laura and Margot at St. Thomas have started a literary magazine called “stuart.” I am honored to be in the inaugural issue of this STU version of QWERTY with my long travel poem “Everything Is Coming Up Rose Blanche.”

The book launch is on Sunday, April 25, at 8 pm at the Garrison Ale House in Fred.

See you there, JT

Hey all,

Just dropping a note to let you know that the online, Alberta-based poetry magazine blueskiespoetry.ca is publishing two of my poems this National Poetry Month: Checkout Girls and The Butcher and the Baker. I’m stoked!

-CC

Leaf Garden Press, is going to publish two of my poems for their upcoming 9th issue. They have chosen the poems, “Greasy, Grey Corpse (Smells Like McD’s)” and “Yes, Extremism”. The journal is available online for free pdf download, and can also be ordered in physical form. The theme of the upcoming issue is “experimental works”. So I guess I’m experimental! Who woulda thunked it?

Here is a video of Library Scissorbill’s editor, Mike Lecky, reading his story Eric, Who is a Robot (from Greetings! From Gumdrop Mountain) at Pilot Books in Seattle.

It’s happening…

“Dinosaur Porn” (published by Ferno House in T.O.) will be launched on January 28, 2010 AD. 

ROWRR, JT

Hey bud-dies,

Share your thoughts on Step’s “Chapel Arm” at the Chapters/Indigo site.

Let’s get Agnes to keep her copy!

JT

Hey Dudes,

The Yin and Yang, or Karma, or whatever, of life is so f’-ing weird. When one career seems to be tanking, the other comes along to tow you back to the surface. I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m tooting my tugboat horn here, but I just got word that the humour magazine feathertale.com wants to publish my poem If You Turned Into an Alien… “Giddy” best sums up my mood this weekend in November.

JT

That’s Right Folks,

The independent publisher Ferno House in Toronto has accepted my story Longest Known Dinosaur for their collection entitled Dinosaur Porn. I’m pretty stoked, and based on this success, I think I’ll devote myself entirely to the erotically strange.

JT

Hooray,

Katie Brown has scored another publication for herself and our illustrious brood. She has two poems in the Autumn 2009 issue of The Fiddlehead.

Congrats,

Los Vagabondos