Ottawa International Writers Festival

I'm at home with a terrible bout of back pain, a reminder of an unfortunate car crash over a year ago. I still have time to sue...but they seem to make it so tricky that you needn't bother. Thirty thousand dollar deductible. Yeesh.

This week in Ottawa is the Ottawa International Writers Festival, spring edition. There are some neat poets making their way to read in the "Poetry Cabarets", and a few interesting sessions of "The Writing Life". There will also be a long awaited launch of local taxi driver/poet William Hawkins collected poems from Broken Jaw Press. Come out and support the local scene.