Joe Blades

Joe Blades is an artist, editor, educator, producer–host of the weekly radio program Ashes, Paper & Beans (CHSR) since 1995, and he is publisher of Broken Jaw Press Inc. in Fredericton. Blades has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1988), a Certificate in Film and Television (2008), and a Master of Education (2012). He is a Past President of the League of Canadian Poets, the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, and the Canadian Poetry Association. His writings are in over 50 anthologies and 30 chapbooks. His seven poetry books include Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry and Casemate Poems (Collected). His has poems and/or short fiction translated and published in Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has three books translated into Serbian published in Serbia, and in Bosnia Herzegovina.

Joe is available for funded readings, residencies and workshops via artsnb, Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC), Canada Council for the Arts, League of Canadian Poets, NB’s Writers in Schools Program (WiSP), The Writers’ Union of Canada, and WFNS’ Writers in the Schools (WITS).

Memberships

• BlackTop MotorCycle Gang writers’ group, Fredericton, NB
• Capítulo Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía
• Canadian Artist Representation/le Front des artistes canadiens (CAR/FAC)
• Canadian Poetry Association
• Central European Association of Canadian Studies
• The League of Canadian Poets (LCP)
• New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative
• Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS)
• The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC)

Publications

• Casemate Poems (Collected). Ottawa: Chaudiere Books, (2011
• Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2010
• from the book that doesn’t close. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press, 2008
• Casemate Poems. Waterloo, ON: Widows & Orphans, 2004
• Open Road West (artist edition). Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press eBooks (PDF), 2001
• Open Road West. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press; Broken Jaw Press eBooks (PDF), 2000
• River Suite. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 1998. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press eBooks (PDF), 2000
• Cover Makes a Set. London, ON: SpareTime Editions/HMS Press, 1990 authored (in translation)
• Iz knjige koja se ne zatvara. Tatjana Bijelić; translator into Serbian, (BiH), and Fredericton, NB: Art Print, and Broken Jaw Press, 2012.
• Rečna svita. In Slike iz kanade: Tri kanadska pesnika (Images of Canada: Three Canadian Poets) by Frejzer Saterlend, Nensi Berk & Džo Blejdz. Aleksandar Blagojević and Vesna Lopičić, translators into Serbian. Niš,
  Serbia & Montenegro: Studentski kulturni centar Niš, 2005
• Pesme iz kazamata. Dubravka Ðjurić, translator into Serbian. Beograd: i.p. Rad, 2005
• books and chapbooks: editor
• re:myth: Stories and Poems by the BlackTop MotorCycle Gang. Joe Blades and Biff Mitchell, editors. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press, 2010
• UGLY: an instant spoken word chapbook anthology. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press, 2007
• some stuff on canadian spoken word & indie publishing. Montreal, QC: National Campus and Community Radio Association/l’Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires, 2004
• Great Lakes Logia. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press; Broken Jaw Press eBooks (PDF), 2001
• Jive Talk: George Fetherling in Interviews & Documents. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press; Broken Jaw Press eBooks, 2001
• Crossroads Cant. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press, 1997
• In the Dark—Poets & Publishing. Fredericton, NB: Broken Jaw Press, 1997
• Danger Falling Ice: The League of Canadian Poets Writes of Spring Reading in Fredericton, 1997. Fredericton, NB: BS Poetry Society, 1997
• Burnt Poems Served Hot. Joe Blades and Matt Stranach, editors. Fredericton, NB: BS Poetry Society, 1995
• Shout and Speak Out Loud: Atlantic Canadians on Child Sexual Abuse. Margaret McLeod and Joe Blades, editors. Fredericton, NB: Wild East, 1992
• Ecphore ’87 Poetry Anthology. Joe Blades and Kathy Mac, editors. Halifax, NS: BS Poetry Society/Broken Jaw Press, 1987