Cliff Dwellers Book Club Zoom Meeting: Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly - Hamlin Garland

Cliff Dwellers Book Club Zoom Meeting

 

to discuss Hamlin Garland's "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"

at 11 AM Chicago Time (6 PM Siena Time), Saturday, May 22nd Chicago, Illinois

The Cliff Dwellers Book Club

Canadian Club of Rome Zoom Meeting: Talk with Alex Himelfarb

CanaDiana’s participation in

Canadian Club of Rome Zoom Meeting

Guest Speaker: Alex Himelfarb on the long-term effects of COVID-19 - May 18, 2021
Former Canadian Ambassador to Italy, Alexander Himelfarb, will talk to the CCR about the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-19 on social disparities and behaviour, climate changes and the world economy.

In addition to his term as ambassador, Alex Himelfarb's stellar career as a Canadian civil servant and academic has included nine years as a professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick, authoring numerous articles and books, four years as Clerk of the Privy Council, three years as the deputy minister of Canadian Heritage, and five years as director of the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs at York University. He was one of the founders of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and has been on the boards of a number of federal committees and NGOs.

CanaDiana member British poet, Dianne Pacitti, finalist in the Accenti Poetry contest

 Dianne Pacitti, finalist in the Accenti Poetry Contest 2021 with the poem "Unfoundland"

 

Accenti Poetry Contest 2021 Finalists

Unfoundland
by Diane Pacitti

When they were old men
they couldn’t recall if they had strode that mystery,
or if another sailor had bragged of walking
on the broad backs of cod
all the way to the shore

of the new found land;
though even Caboto himself
might have baulked at that word ‘found’:
his tensed eyes
saw nothing you could pin down, only landfall

receding into mist, and a wild grey sea
shape-shifting
into translucent islands,
learning to crackle and splinter;

learning to soften
to slob ice, and then be washed ashore
as lolly turned to slush:

a liminal place,
a borderland which surfaces and fades
in the throats of its own people, through words
which bob up
and hide beneath the tide of standard speech;

sudden as a wind
that stretches cheeks in a screecher; or perhaps
in a damp muggy day which closes the lips
to murmur mauzy, or with the force
of brickle ice exploding harsh consonants
in throat and mouth.

it is a language
like distant glim; its words as elusive
as a fairy squall, a gust which appears
to come from nowhere.

A standard speaker
is strangered by this tongue, feels as displaced
as perhaps Caboto did when he returned
to the jewel-hard light of Venice, learnt to live
with palaces and towers, yet in his dreams
still walked a squirming silver bridge of fish,
the nearest thing he could find
to solid land.

Laura Ferri: "Hamlin Garland the ‘Veritist’ Writer of the Middle Border and its Main-Travelled Roads"

Laura Ferri’s contribution of her essay "Hamlin Garland the ‘Veritist’ Writer of the Middle Border and its Main-Travelled Roads" to the library of The Cliff Dwellers, the club Hamlin Garland founded in 1909 in Chicago

The essay in PDF format can be download from this site: William John Bowe, Jr. Materials