Recent Issues
April Open Heart Forgery
March Open Heart Forgery
For previous issues, click Monthly Issues or OHF Abroad.
Meetings and Updates
OHF is celebrating National Poetry Month with an open mic event inside Halifax City Hall! Come join us on Friday, April 12th, 2024, from 6:30-8:00pm for an evening of poetry — you can sign up to read/perform upon arrival, or just attend to listen and enjoy. Snacks and copies of the upcoming April OHF issue will be available, plus a special giveaway of some OHF anthology collections.
The Author Page has been converted to a series of pages. If you had a link to the author page, please update it – instructions are on the author page. The new author pages are under construction and some authors or poems may be missing or out of order, and some issues are missing author links. As of the February 2024 issue, author links go to the new pages.
For previous announcements and event photos, check the news archive.
OHF Stories
Read what OHF means to some of our contributors!
Tenth Anniversary Anthology
The Tenth Anniversary Anthology is available at these local stores:
- Bookmark II on Spring Garden Rd. (special order only) – https://bookmanager.com/1163574/?q=h
- Dartmouth Book Exchange on Cole Harbour Rd. – https://dartmouthbookexchange.ca/
You can also obtain it directly from us. Please use the contact form below to request copies. Copies of the Year 1 Anthology are also available.
They Call Me Inspiration: Open Heart Abroad
OHF contributor Ron Gillis also writes songs, and is kindly donating all proceeds from digital sales of his album They Call Me Inspiration: Open Heart Abroad to the anthology project. The songs are written by Ron and performed by Cape Breton musician Kenny Walsh. To purchase a digital copy of album or individual songs, go to www.openheartforgery.bandcamp.com
Waltzing Time
OHF contributor Marjorie Kildare is no longer with us, but she left copies of her book of poems, Waltzing Time, to Open Heart Forgery, and hoped we could distribute them and use them for fundraising. For now, we can’t hand them out at meetings, but a copy can be yours for a donation plus the cost of mailing. Please use the Contact Form, below, to request a copy.
Newsletter
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Contact Us / Submit a Poem
Before submitting, please read the submissions page.
To submit a concrete or shaped poem, or any poem where special typography is required, please use the form below to request an email address for your submission.
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thanks for adding my poem this past June. LORIE MORRIS
Nice to find you on WordPress.com. It’s an easy format to work with. I look forward to reading more.