JC Sulzenko’s award-winning poetry appears in anthologies and journals in print and online either under her own name or her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss.
Bricolage: A Gathering of Centos (Aeolus House), her second book of poetry, was named a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2022 national Fred Kerner Award. Her centos had won the 2023 and 2019 Wind & Water Contests (County Arts.) Point Petre Publishing issued her debut collection of narrative and lyric poetry, South Shore Suite…POEMS, in 2017.
A full member of the League of Canadian Poets, JC serves on the Board of the Ontario Poetry Society. JC writes poetry on commission and creates impromptu poems as fundraisers for charitable causes. She welcomes opportunities to introduce her work to community groups.
What’s New
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K. V. Skene reviews LIFE, AFTER LIFE–FROM EPITAPH TO EPILOGUE
Please check out Ontario poet K. V. Skene’s thoughtful and welcome response to JC’s 3rd poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue.
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JC’s New Website (2025)
Welcome to JC Sulzenko’s new website, which retained and updated the most important information from her 2012 site.
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New book review: John Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley: In Search of America”
JC returns to sharing short reviews of books particularly those which she scores high. Go to Bookends on this site to read about Steinbeck’s 1962 memoir or click on this direct link. JC finds it prescient and gives it a rating of 8/10.
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January 20, 2025—A Lament
A poem for today, January 20, 2025, written in 2017 and published in A. Garnett Weiss’s 2024 poetry collection, Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue.
Trumped
Underhanded ways, shortcuts
wallpaper incorrigible pranksters
who thought nothing of hiding things,
weaving an unfiltered outlook, a myriad
of erratic logistics into action around the world.
Found poem sources: words and phrases drawn unaltered from obituary articles and death notices published in the April 29, 2017, Toronto Globe and Mail.
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