Dr. Joel Bothello

Overview

Areas of Interest

Sustainability, Resilience, Institutional Theory, Informal Economy, Stakeholder Theory

Education

• Ph.D. in Business Administration - ESSEC
• Doctorat en sciences de gestion - Université de Cergy Pontoise
• Mastère spécialisé - ESSEC
• BAS - York University

Books of poetry

A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth. London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2011 (in second printing). 80 pages.

Pavilion. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, April 2002. 72 pages.

Two Bowls of Milk. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, March 1999 (in second printing). 86 pages.

White Stone: The Alice Poems. Montréal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, April 1998 (in fifth printing). 80 pages.

Pierre Blanche: poèmes d’Alice, trans. Daniel Canty. Montréal: Les Éditions du Noroît, August 2007. 96 pages.

Chapbooks of poetry

Ghosts. Limited edition chapbook. Ottawa, Ontario: above/ground press, August 2017. unpaginated.

Past the Roman Arena and the Cedar of Lebanon. Handmade limited edition chapbook. Montréal, Québec: Delirium Press, April 2006. 20 pages.

Biodôme. Limited edition chapbook. Ottawa, Ontario: above/ground press, April 2006. unpaginated.

Inside a Tent of Skin: 9 Poems from the National Gallery of Canada. Handmade limited edition chapbook (First Prize winner of annual chapbook contest). Salt Spring Island, British Columbia: Mother Tongue Press, May 1998. 28 pages.

Portraits of Alice. Limited edition chapbook. Shelburne, Ontario: Lewis Carroll Society of Canada, April 1998. 18 pages.

Three Bloody Words. Limited edition chapbook. Ottawa, Ontario: above/ground press, May 1996. 24 pages. Twentieth anniversary edition with new afterword, May 2016.

Selected Anthologies

The Broadview Introduction to Literature, Second Edition, ed. Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon, and Paul Lumsden. Calgary: Broadview Press, Spring 2018. (page numbers unknown)

The Best of the Best of Canadian Poetry in English, ed. Molly Peacock and Anita Lahey. Toronto:Tightrope Books, Fall 2017.

Naked in Academe: Celebrating 50 Years of Creative Writing at UBC, ed., Rhea Tregebov. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart and Vancouver: UBC Creative Writing,2014.

I Found it at the Movies, ed. Ruth Roach Pierson and Sue MacLeod. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2013.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English, ed. Carmine Starnino. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2012.

Poet to Poet, eds. Michael Mirolla, Julie Roorda, and Elana Wolff. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2012.

Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems, ed. Nancy Holmes. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

A Verse Map of Vancouver, ed. George McWhirter. Vancouver, BC: Anvil Press, 2009.

The New Canon, ed. Carmine Starnino. Montréal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, 2005.

Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 1995.

Recent Journal Publications

Grain magazine – Vol. 42, Issue 1, Winter 2021 (Regina, Saskatchewan)

• 1 poem: At the End (The World) 

 

CBC Books / Canada Writes, November 2019

https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/shelter-object-by-stephanie-bolster-1.5346815

• 1 long poem: Shelter Object

 

Contemporary Verse 2 – Vol. 42, Issue 3, Winter 2020 (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

            • 2 poems: Katrina (The Levees), Windows Where There Were Windows (pp. 75-77)

 

Painted Bride Quarterly – Issue 99, Summer 2019 (Philadelphia)

            • 1 poem:  Ancestors (unknown page number)

 

Vallum - #16.1: Connections, Spring 2019 (Montreal, Quebec)

            • 1 poem:  Now (p. 58)

 

The Fiddlehead – #276, Summer 2018 (Fredericton, New Brunswick)

            • 2 poems: Katrina (Camellia Grill), Wave (Wall) (pp. 69-71)

 

The New Quarterly – #147, Summer 2018 (Kitchener, Ontario)

            • 3 poems: All, Here, Cusp (pp. 42-44)

 

The Malahat Review – #202, Spring 2018 (University of Victoria, BC)

            • 1 poem: Tiffany, or Comfort (p. 29)

 

Ottawater – #14, January 2018 (Ottawa, Ontario)

http://www.ottawater.com/ottawater14.pdf

            • 1 poem: Long Exposure (Weather)

New Poetry, May 8, 2017 (St. John's Newfoundland), newpoetry.ca

    •  1 poem: High Line

Numero Cinq, Summer 2017, numerocinqmagazine.com

    •  10 poems: Midlife, Selfie, Mother, Lost, Bad Dream, Noise, Once, Strandbeests, Niceville, FL, Wet

Contemporary Verse 2, Volume 37, Number 4, Spring 2015 (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

     •  2 poems: Ornamental, Three Trees (pp. 63-65)

Event Vol. 43, Number 3, December 2014 (Douglas College, New Westminster, BC)

     •  1 poem: Solstice (p. 41)

Cosmonauts Avenue 1.2, December 2014 (Montreal, Quebec)

      •  1 poem: Panorama Mesdag

Matrix #100, Fall 2014 (Concordia University, Montreal)

• 2 poems: Party; Elantra

Hazlitt, 30 June 2014

     •  1 poem: After Psalm

2 poems: Party; Elantra

The Fiddlehead #260, Summer 2014 (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton) (pp. 87 – 93)

• 1 excerpt from Long Exposure (The Address)

Ottawater – #10, January 2014 (Ottawa, Ontario) (unpaginated)

      •  3 poems: A la Claire fontaine; Paintpots; Sensitive Plant

DUSIE (www.dusie.org), 8 October 2013 (Switzerland)

      •  1 poem: Kudzu

The Malahat Review – #182, Spring 2013 (University of Victoria, BC) (pp. 54-55)

• 2 poems: Muguet; Witch Hazel

CBC Books / Canada Writes, September 2012

      •  1 long excerpt from Long Exposure ("He didn't move the dress . . . ") (unpaginated)

Toronto Poetry Vendors, Spring 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) and video on website

  •  1 poem: Vacation

Ottawater – #8, January 2012 (Ottawa, Ontario)

• 1 poem (“Middle Landscape”) and 4 excerpts from Long Exposure (“The moon’s back . . .” “This is the time . . .” “To talk is wrong . . .” “We are not our skins . . .”(p. 6)

• 1 excerpt from Long Exposure (“Will I be happy . . .”) (p. 50)

Number 5, Spring 2011 (Montréal, Québec) 

• 3 poems (2 previously published): Life of the Mind (Tapestry), Life of the Mind (Task), Gardening (the latter previously unpublished) (unpaginated)

Contemporary Verse 2– Volume 33, Number 2, Fall 2010 (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

• 2 poems: Vespers, In the Solarium (pp. 26-27)

Arc – Poetry Annual 2011, Summer 2010 (Ottawa, Ontario

• 2 poems: Cusp; Two Doors (pp.66-68)

The New Quarterly– #114, Spring 2010 (Waterloo, Ontario

• 1 poem: Mistaken for Blackbirds (p. 135)

Recent Non-fiction Prose

My (Small Press) Writing Day (online series): http://mysmallpresswritingday.blogspot.com/2019/02/stephanie-bolster-my-writing-day.html, posted 14 February 2019 - 7 page essay (unpaginated)

The New Quarterly, Writing Spaces (online series) : https://tnq.ca/writing-spaces-stephanie-bolster/, posted 13 August 2018; short essay on my home office (unpaginated)

Writing Creative Writing : Essays from the Field, ed. Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, and Priscila Uppal. Toronto: Dundurn Press, Spring 2018. 304 pp.; one essay: “One of these Things is Not Like the Others: The Writer in the University” (pp. 230-240)

Queen Mob’s Teahouse, posted 6 June 2016 (http://queenmobscom/2016/06/three-bloody-words-an-interview-with-stephanie-bolster/); interviewed by Ottawa poet rob mclennan (unpaginated)

Celebration of Canadian Poetry 2015 (ed. Kitty Lewis), posted 17 September 2015, Brick Books website (http://www.brickbooks.ca/week-38-margaret-atwood-presented-by-stephanie-bolster/); essay on Margaret Atwood’s “This is a Photograph of Me”

Language Matters: Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets, ed. Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid. Winnipeg: Signature Editions, Fall 2013; interview (previously unpublished) and 2 poems (previously published) (pp.13-21)

13 Poetry Books on Neptune (ed., Stuart Ross), posted 17 November 2011 (http://13poetrybooksonneptune.wordpress.com); annotated list of selected poetry collections

17 Seconds (http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/issue3/SBolsterInterview.pdf) – Issue #3, Summer 2011 (Ottawa, Ontario) - conversation with Ottawa poet rob mclennan

Arc – Poetry Annual 2011, Summer 2010 (Ottawa, Ontario) - interview: The Lure of the Gallery Wall (with John Barton and Anita Lahey) (pp. 69-81)

Poetry Annual 2010, Summer 2009 (Ottawa, Ontario); essay: Remembering Goldenrod: On Don Coles’ “Recluse” (pp. 71-74)

Approaches to Poetry: the pre-poem moment, ed. Shane Neilson. Victoria, BC: Frog Hollow Press, Fall 2009. - essay, “Life of the Mind” (pp. 90-94)

Creative Expression, Creative Education: Creativity as a Primary Rationale for Education, ed. Robert Kelly and Carl Leggo. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 2008. 263 pp.; 1 essay: Towards the Cancellation of National Poetry Month (pp. 127-131)

The New Quarterly e-newsletter, April 2008; 1 short essay: Paris, City of Coincidence

Literary Review of Canada – Vol. 16, No. 3, April 2008 (Toronto, Ontario) (p. 14); 1 short essay: on Margaret Avison’s “Thaw” in “Canada’s Most Memorable Poems: The LRC Contributors’ List”

Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, ed. Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and Cathy Stonehouse. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Spring 2008; 1 essay: Transformations (pp. 128-135)

Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections, ed. Danielle Schaub. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press and Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2006. (p. 200); essay: The Door (p. 200)

Maisonneuve – October 2005 (Montréal, Québec); 1 article: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fan: Duran Duran Lives on in the Most Unlikely Places

Works Edited

Global Poetry Anthology, edited by Valerie Bloom, Stephanie Bolster, Frank M. Chipasula, Fred D’Aguiar, Michael Harris, John Kinsella, Sinéad Morrissey, Odia Ofeimun, Eric Ormsby, and Anand Thakore. Montreal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press,Spring 2012. 100 pp.

Penned: Zoo Poems, edited by Stephanie Bolster, Katia Grubisic, and Simon Reader. Montreal: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press, Fall 2009. 150 pp.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, edited by Stephanie Bolster, series/advisory editor Molly Peacock.Toronto: Tightrope Books, Fall 2008. 155 pp.

The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems, Diana Brebner, edited and with an introduction by Stephanie Bolster. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, Autumn 2004. 166 pp.

Print and Online Media (2014-2016)

"Shelter Object" longlisted for CBC/Canada Reads Poetry Prize, posted 8 November 2017

https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/shelter-object-by-stephanie-bolster-1.4371787

Celebration of Canadian Poetry (ed. Kitty Lewis), posted 19 May 2016, Brick Books website (http://www.brickbooks.ca/week-73-stephanie-bolster-presented-by-nancy-holmes/)

essay by Nancy Holmes on my poem “Many Have Written Poems about Blackberries”

Celebration of Canadian Poetry (ed. Kitty Lewis), posted 31 December 2015, Brick Books website (http://www.brickbooks.ca/week-53-stephanie-bolster-presented-by-molly-peacock/)

essay by Molly Peacock on my poem “Luggie”

Celebration of Canadian Poetry (ed. Kitty Lewis), posted 26 November 2015, Brick Books website (http://www.brickbooks.ca/week-48-stephanie-bolster-presented-by-crystal-hurdle/)

            • essay by Crystal Hurdle on my book White Stone: The Alice Poems

Concordia News, 26 August 2015, “When we go to theme parks, what are we trying to escape?,” Tom Peacock

http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2015/08/26/dismaland-banksy-stephanie-bolster-theme-parks.html

Concordia News, 20 August 2015, “This was not supposed to happen”: excerpts from Stephanie Bolster’s Long Exposure

http://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/main/stories/2015/08/21/stephanie-bolster-poet-long-exposure.html

Montreal Gazette, 8 May 2015, “Young writers drive Montreal’s literary scene,” Victor Swoboda

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/young-writers-drive-montreals-thriving-literary-scene

Print and Online Media for A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth,2011-2013

Review (by Matthew Zantingh) in The Goose 12/13 (2013) (pp. 217-219)

http://www.alecc.ca/uploads/goose/The%20Goose%202013%20Double%20Issue%2012_13.pdf

Review (by Rebecca Geleyn) in The Fiddlehead #255, Spring 2013 (pp. 104-107)

Review (by Maurice Mireau) in Event 41.2, Fall 2012 (p. xxx)

Review (by Katherine Sehl) in Matrix 93, Fall 2012 (p. 58)

Interview on CBC Books website, September 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2012/09/the-shortlist-qa-with-stephanie-bolster.html

Review (by Kevin Shaw) on The Bull Calf 2.2, Spring 2012

http://www.thebullcalfreview.ca/stephaniebolster.htm

Review (by Shane Rhodes) in The Malahat Review #178, Spring 2012

http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/issues/178reviews_rhodes.html

Review (by “Inkslinger”) on blog The Overdecorated Bookcase, Friday, 7 October 2011

http://paintedbookcase.blogspot.ca/2011/10/currently-listening-to-saint-saens.html

Review(by Gillian Harding-Russell) in Prairie Fire Review of Books, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2012

http://ojs.lib.umanitoba.ca/index.php/prairie_fire

Review (by Candace Fertile) in Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue #11, January – April 2012

http://mtls.ca/issue11/writings/reviews/candace-fertile/2

“The Nature of Things”: review (by Abby Page) in Montreal Review of Books (Spring2012)

http://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/the-nature-of-things/

Review (by Devin Pacholik) on Global Regina, Morning News, Book Review Club (2 March 2012)

http://www.globalregina.com/video/bookreview club march 2nd/video.html?v=2204616855#interviews/video

Review (by Devin Pacholik) (2 March 2012)

http://pagesandpatches.blogspot.com/2012/03/page-from-wonders-of-life-on-earth.html

“Playing with danger”: review (by Quentin Mills-Fenn) in Uptown (Winnipeg) (1 March 2012)

http://www.uptownmag.com/arts/paper-trails/Playing-with-danger-140917803.html

“An Education” (from A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth) chosen for “Poem of the Month” feature on Montreal Review of Books website (April 2012)

“Familiarand Strange”: review (by Moberley Luger) in Canadian Literature (December2011)

http://canlit.ca/reviews/familiar_and_strange

Review (by Jim Johnstone) in Northern Poetry Review (January 2012)

http://www.northernpoetryreview.com/reviews/jim-johnstone/wonders-of-life.html

Listed as one of Carmine Starnino’s Top Ten Poetry Books of 2011

http://vehiculepress.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-01-01T15:44:00-05:00&max-results=7

Listed as one of rob mclennan’s Top Eleven (Canadian) Poetry Books of 2011

http://www.dusie.blogspot.com/2012/01/rob-mclennans-top-eleven-canadian.html

Review (by John Oughton) on Poetry Quebec site, 17 December 2011

http://www.poetry-quebec.com/pq/review/article_549.shtml

“Verse that turns us inside out”: review (by Barbara Carey) in The Toronto Star, 18 October 2011

“Collections take a hard look at Canadian history, nature”: review (by Bill Robertson) in the Star Phoenix (Saskatoon), 25 November 2011

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/travel/Collectionstake hard look Canadian history nature/5769078/story.html

Review (by Heather Craig) in the Telegraph-Journal (New Brunswick), 15 October 2011

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/salon/article/1447942F6)

Interview on Open Book Toronto, posted September 2011

http://www.openbookontario.com/news/proust_questionnaire_stephanie_bolster

“Pitch Perfect: Two new poetry collections display virtuosity in technique and tone”: review by Nick Thran in Quill & Quire http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7446

Review (by Jonathan Ball) in The Winnipeg Free Press, 24 September 2011<

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/gillian-sze-casts-melancholic-eye-130493443.html#(p. J9)

Review (by Ian Pople) on The Manchester Review website (http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/blog.php, 23 September 2011

>Review by rob mclennan on rob mclennan’s blog (http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2011/09/stephanie-bolster-page-from-wonders-of.html), 8 September 2011