Issue #13 | Sept – Dec 2012 | ISSN 1916-341X

Maple Tree Literary Supplement - Issue 13

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Griffin Poetry Prize Events 2012

Griffin Poetry Prize Events 2012

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Dennis Lee and Stan Dragland. Provided by Kitty Lewis, Brick Books.

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Ottawa Scene

Cultural Olympiad

John W. Macdonald is the unofficial photographer of Ottawa’s literary Scene. Although not a writer like Carl Van Vechten, he is still to Ottawa what the former was to the Harlem Renaissance in terms of visual arts. His lenses are indispensable to the archiving of Ottawa’s unfolding scribal history.

Poetry

Wisdom
George Elliott Clarke

Expect us—just like our mothers once did.
Without respect, we tire, retire; our breaths
Soon date, expire. We staff our epitaphs.
As scripted, we find the stars cool to ash,
The sun drops, blood red, into black sackcloth,
And all the wind can do is cry. Pity
How without Solace is soulless flesh….

Fiction

The ‘Unholy Bible’: King Lucifer’s Version
Kenechi Uzochuwku

The end is near I must tell you. And just in case I don’t make it, I hereby give you my memoir, my autobiography. I don’t pretend to make it as poetic and flowery as the bible; my tale need not have any aesthetic quality. There would be no verses, or any of such triviality. It won’t be in testaments, old or new. This is not an epistle or a letter to the Romans or the Corinthians or any particulars; it is not a book of proverbs or any other form of praise singing. I seek not to give any commandment, or to promise damnation to anyone. It is not for self-glorification either. This is just the missing parts of the Other Book; the other side of the story...

Art Quote

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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Artist – Daniel Richards

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