The following is an excerpt of the lecture I'll be giving next week at the 2009 Literatures of the West Coast Graduate Conference at the University of the Victoria. The working title is "Reservations: Identity and Poetic Form" and it mostly tells the story of how I came to think of poetic form as being both customs agent and traveller, local and global.

Three poems circa 2006. Two made it into Living Things and a third is another b-side.

http://www.forgetmagazine.com/060106ccc.html