Speaking of Tree Reading Series...

Just got news (thanks rob) that 2006 Far Horizons Award went to the director of Ottawa's Tree Reading Series, Rhonda Douglas. Rhonda won the award for her poem "Non-Exclusive List." The Far Horizons Award celebrates the achievement of emerging writers who have yet to publish their poetry in book form.

Douglas’s poem will be published in the Malahat’s Fall 2006 issue, due out in late September. Final Judge George Bowering chose her poem from over 450 entries submitted by 166 poets.

Congratulations, Rhonda! (Now get the series out of the hot basement.) hahaha!