This is just a little heads-up to let you know i'll have my seven minutes of fame tomorrow Sunday on CBC radio's cross country check-up. The topic will be the immigrant experience in Canada. The website search is CBC Radio One - then go to cross country check up.
If you are interested here are the details;
"Our host Will be Ismaila Alfa at 4:20 pm ET this Sunday, July 2nd. The interview will last 5 - 7 minutes and be on both audio and video over Zoom. The audio will air on CBC Radio One and the video will be on CBC News Network (television) Facebook LIVE and on CBC Gem. We're asking callers 'When did Canada become your new home? How did that move change you?' We'll be speaking to you specifically about your own experience coming to Canada."
Cheers!
Michael
from the bio note in Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era (Seraphim Editions, 2008)
edited by Allan Briesmaster and Michael Berzensky
Michael Zizis was born in Pittsburgh in 1949. He arrived in Canada in 1969. He came to Canada the day he was to report for boot camp. A friend commented he shouldn't get in the car because it was a jinx. The car hit a deer near Erie, Pennsylvania and was towed back. In Canada he taught creative writing at Humber College and established INTRINSIC: a magazine of poetry & poetics. He published two books of poetry, each well received by many readers. But the more successful he was in the literary world, "the darker my spirit became." Zizis has worked for 30 years to become a full time Astrologer, "a helping and healing profession." He had abandoned "his literary life after three decades of struggle." He is now writing again.
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