9 days to HATCH workshop

excitement's mounting around my house for our upcoming week-long residency at harbourfront centre, where we'll workshop wide slumber and then present our experiments on nov. 11 & 12 (8pm). much activity in the interim:

• yesterday, i had a charmed visit to leaside high school, where conor attended. high-energy writer's craft class featured writing exercises, readings, and Q&A. greatly looking forward to a return visit next spring.
• today, we launched mark miller's a certain respect for tradition and david lee's the battle of the five spot (both mercury) at art of jazz (distillery district). kiki misumi (cellist), reg schwager (guitarist), and david virelles (pianist) stole my heart during an impromptu jam.
• monday, i'm at marc garneau collegiate institute, writer's craft. i always get a rush visiting kathy jonathan's classes, so this'll be fun!
• fall books season at mercury = go go go. lovely, good going but going nonetheless.
• saturday, potential contact improv workshop.
• sunday, hamilton for gritLIT festival. also, dad arrives for brief visit from the sault.

though most of my last two weeks has been overwhelmed by HATCH prep, i have noticed three newish canadian publishers sashay through my e-mail: chaudiere books (ottawa, publishing monty reid and others), snare books (montreal, showcasing jason christie, angela carr, zoe whittall, and more), west coast line books (vancouver, featuring roger farr, reg johanson, natalie simpson). books, books, books. what do you think of the emergence of new poetry publishers?