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I'm looking forward to Sunday, February 22nd, 2026, when I will be interviewed by writer Suzanne Craig-Whytock on Reader's Delight Live On-Air, CKMS 102.7 FM Radio Waterloo. I will be talking about "Quantum" and poetry writing.

Moon Jar, National Museum of Korea Issue 177 of "The New Quarterly" has just been published. I have a poem in this issue, "Moon Jar." Moon jars are elegant Korean ceramics creations, and they acted as a prompt for my poem, which includes Korean words. Read it in "The New Quarterly"! https://tnq.ca/issues/issue-177/ ...

Read my explanation of why I wrote Quantum, a bold, highly imaginative book, made for the 21st century in The Miramichi Reader . "Reading poetry means crossing into a space of mindfulness that lends itself to introspection. Some call this “being in the zone”—a state of meditation and detachment that nurtures focus and clarity of purpose. A question comes to mind: What if poetry is a field of creative energy whose quanta surround us, and in which we can immerse ourselves thro

I'm glad I joined The Ontario Poetry Society (TOPS) last summer. A glowing review of "Quantum" written by Stradford's Poet Laureate is included In the January issue of Verse Afire, The Ontario Poetry Society's literary magazine. Here are two sentences that stuck with me: 'In short, this is a quite exquisite poetry collection, employing resounding and surprising word combinations that tap into the the heartfelt core of what it means to live on this earth.' 'Irina Moga's Quantu