News
October 6, 2011 — Giants Bookmark Unveiling
Project Bookmarks Canada installs plaque inscribed with John’s poem Giants at Sam Lawrence Park, the local park off Concession Street on the Mountain brow that offers a panoramic view of Hamilton.
Project Bookmark Canada story
Hamilton Spectator story
Project Bookmark Q&A with John Teprstra
Project Bookmark Canada
Links
Art Waves: http://www.archive.org/details/MirandaHillJohnTerpstraTheBookmarkProjectArtWaves139
Miranda Hill & John Terpstra, The Bookmark Project, Art Waves #139 Miranda Hill is a writer and a passionate reader who was inspired to start The Bookmark Project installing permanent markers in places where the Canadian landscape has been enshrined in a literary work. John Terpstra's poem "Giants" was honoured with Bookmark 9, in Hamilton's Sam Lawrence Park. Celebrate a sense of place with us, in this episode of Art Waves..
SPRING 2011 — Hamilton Arts & Letters: http://john-terpstra-why-must-we-die-1.html
Why Must We Die? Part I Walls talk. They speak in simple facts of brick and glass.
Fall 2011 — Hamilton Arts & Letters: http://john-terpstra-why-must-we-die-2.html
Why Must We Die? Part II Still wandering through these themes of place and dwelling and family and generation.
Gaspereau Press: http://www.gaspereau.com/author.shtml
The St. Thomas Poetry Series: http://www.stthomaspoetryseries.com
CentrifugalEye: http://centrifugaleye.com
Author's Aloud: http://www.authorsaloud.com/readings/readings/readings/terpstra.html
Image: http://www.imagejournal.org/aom/terpstra_john.asp
Atrtist of the Month page featuring John Terpstra
Bryan Prince, Bookseller: http://www.princebooks.net
40 Days and Forty
Nights, Naked Trees and
Captain Kintail are available here
Bookninja: http://bookninja.com/magazine/fall2006/terpstra.htm
Telling the Story, At Long Last John Terpstra takes us into the thirty-year-long process of writing his memoir The Boys
Luther College - Talking Fresh: http://www.luthercollege.edu/talkingfresh
Comment Magazine: http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/96/
Q & A with John Terpstra
Comment Magazine: http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2183/
Point of View: Art and Faith and Workmanship by John Terpstra
Stuff in the Basement: http://siouxlander.blogspot.com/2010/08/morning-thanks-boys.html
Morning Thanks — "The Boys" by James Schaap
Art Waves: http://www.archive.org/details/JohnTerpstraWriterArtWaves12
In conversation with Bernadette Rule. John Terpstra began his writing life as a poet, but, with Falling Into Place, began applying his poetic gifts to prose. On his first visit to Art Waves he talks about his work, particularly the award-winning memoir about his brothers-in-law, entitled The Boys or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter.
Art Waves: http://www.archive.org/details/JohnTerpstraSkinBoatArtWaves43
In conversation with Bernadette Rule. John Terpstra talks about his latest work Skin Boat.