poetry on Nedjo

Elemental

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

From Canadian Literature 251 Poetics and Extraction.

The Lido

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

They are both gone now, the timeless oldworld couple who used to sell expired food / in their perennial Broadway storefront open only on Saturdays

Elegy for David Britt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An elegy for my friend David Britt, written in the days after his opioid-related death.

The Processed Word

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dialogue with a machine, in four parts.

Pearl Pirie Interview, 2022

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Part of a series of check-ins poet and publisher Pearl Pirie did with poets she’s collaborated with or published over the years, this wide ranging 2022 interview includes lots of details on Nedjo’s recent artistic work.

For the Birds

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sponsored by Salt Spring Arts, we welcomed spring with this evening dedicated to the inspiration of birds, from Kwakiutl Raven Clan legend to performance poetry, from multi-part harmony to songbird calls.

A tribute to Leonard Cohen

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The spring after Leonard Cohen died I worked with Salt Spring Arts executive director Yael Wand to organize an evening of poetry and song celebrating his life.

Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2016

Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood: Solo Trois-Rivières Tales Show Delivers Full Package. Humour, politics, and rhyme meet in Nedjo Rogers Show.

A Country In Between

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Written for performance, the two pieces that make up the chapbook A Country In Between celebrate gender diversity in literature and history, with stories of the “master mistress” of Shakespeare’s passion and Joan of Arc, gender rebel.

Blackberries

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In 2017, working closely with librarian Karen Hudson, I coordinated a project that produced a chapbook bringing together poetry from featured presenters and open mic poets from the Salt Spring Library Poetry Open Mic.

Breathe In the Difference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

From the chapbook In Air/Air Out on the theme of air.

Renewal Scourge

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The different afterlives of Mohamed Bouazizi and Mark Duggan. First published in Poetry 24.

Saltfest!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019 I organized and hosted this mini-festival of the performing arts on Salt Spring Island.

Testament

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

We are all Rufina Amaya / lone survivor of the massacre of December, 1981

The Trois-Rivières Tales

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I premiered this solo mock epic in verse at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 2014 then reprised it in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island in 2017.

YourSeanceInVerse.com

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Where the dead speak in rhymes! Join in the seance and watch out for demons as a call centre employee channels first a character from Shakespeare’s sonnets and then the Greek goddess Persephone.