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Poetics Presents

Glennis Hobbs

Glennis Hobbs is a retired library technician, now a full-time poet-writer. She has written short stories, meditations, book reviews and has a novel on the back burner. Glennis is secretary of a local writers' group which she helped to start. She is also a Regional representative for Canadian Authors Association Manitoba. She is also a member of the Manitoba Writers Guild and Saskatchewan Writers Guild. She has been a member of WVU since 1997, and has taken Fiction 98 as well as the poetry courses. She has been a member of the T. S. Eliot Room and is currently a member of Word Weavers.

Her work has been published in Bridges, HERizons, Flin Flon Reminder, Library Cat Newsletter, Pulse Magazine, and in our own T-Zero.

She maintains a websites for: her writers' group, Flin Flon Writers' Guild; a writers' help site, Writers' Resources on the Web; a poetry resource page The Poetry Inglenook; and her own poetry website, Glennis's Poetry Inglenook.

Writers' Village members look forward to reading more of Glennis's work.

POETRY SERVICE my friend and I sit at a small table in the cellar-restaurant, sip wine discuss the forthcoming poetry service see the table-altar overed with burlap sacking cries of impatience "where is he?" this poet: my Mentor-- with him, I have discussed, argued metaphors, juxtaposition, enjambment moments frozen in time, dreams shared glimpses of a writing gift a poet-genius hushed silence clapping he has arrived pages recollated at a corner booth the service begins his apologies that only 2 of l7 sonnets are just good enough to read my friend remains silent his face that of an enthralled child we forgive the frustration for the sake of those few poems the poetry Mass has ended we raise wine glasses eat pizza wafer and afterwards, we discuss imagery, the mundane

Copyright © Glennis Hobbs 2000