The May Day Poetry Project: Hello

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Hello

Hello Everyone! I am also new to the May-Day project and am looking forward to living in this month of poetry with you all.

I am a Winnipeg-based writer and editor, though I'm really just starting out in this thing I hope to turn into a career. Right now I'm in the last month of my mentorship through the Sheldon Oberman Mentorship Program (through the Manitoba Writers' Guild), in which I've been working with Ariel Gordon. We've been working on putting a chapbook together, so I will be contributing poems from that. I'm going to aim for posting one poem per week, and if I end up with more than that, so much the better!

4 comments:

Angeline Schellenberg said...: Welcome!; 5/01/2013 3:21 PM
Polly said...: Welcome! How great that you got to work with Ariel!; 5/01/2013 11:19 PM
Marjolaine Hébert said...: Hello, Kyla, and welcome to May Day!; 5/02/2013 11:21 PM
andie said...: Welcome! And, I am so sorry to hear of your unfortunate placement with Ariel Gordon, reknowned for her hulk-smash...but you know, at least you will have learned things (the hard way!)

(kidding, I am happy to hear of your great fortune and bienvenue a maidai!); 5/04/2013 12:02 AM

Origins

Welcome to May Day 2015!

Since Joanne Epp is busy launching her first poetry collection this spring, I've offered to gather the poets for The May Day Poetry Project's eleventh season.

I look forward to another month of making beautiful words together.

- Angeline

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Every year I have greatly appreciated this annual collective outpouring of new work and the conversation that goes along with it.

The population of the group has been slightly different each year, but it still holds to the original principle of helping each other and being helped in our development as artists.

-Joanne

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The name of the May Day Poetry Project comes from the internationally recognized distress signal that in its turn came from the French "m'aider" (or "help me").

It's also "a modern working class celebration and commemoration that came from the 1886 events in Chicago where workers were demonstrating for an eight hour day."

And since I think good art comes out of both the individual and the community, both being helped and making sure you get what you need, I thought it was an appropriate moniker for this effort.

Also, it happened to be a project we were doing during the month of May.

And it sounded sort of snappy. - Ariel

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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

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