
Bernadette Wagner. Author. Editor. Poet. Mentor.
Amuse bouche: samples to whet the appetite
Available Online
Reading List - Saarland
Wagner-Saarland Reading List.pdf
Briefs/Lobby Documents
Oral presentation to RPL Board of Directors
Environmental Responsibility Begins Now!: A Plea to the Regina Public Library Board of Directors
Performances/Podcasts/Interviews
River Volta Reading Series Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVPjy-anItY
Reading West Podcast
https://readingwest.libsyn.com/170108_005
Lit Happens w/ guest Bernadette Wagner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2jCds6bkA
Cathedral Village Arts Festival: Radiant Reads (43:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlthRPFziM&t=8s
Mentions
First Festival of Words noon-hour author readings draws viewers from across Canada, Moose Jaw Today
Final panel at Festival of Words talks prairie literature with Saskatchewan writers, Moose Jaw Today
Launchpad: Mad Cow, by Alexis Kienlen, 49th Shelf
https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/04/17/Launchpad-Mad-Cow-by-Alexis-Kienlen
NaPoMo Poetry Party No. 8, Buddy Breathing
https://buddybreathing.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/napomo-poetry-party-8/
Meditation and Writing: Interview with Author Bernadette Wagner, Training in Power Academy
https://www.traininginpower.com/meditation-and-writing-interview-with-author-bernadette-wagner/
History of Publishing in Saskatchewan, SaskBooks
https://www.skbooks.com/publishing-information/history-of-publishing-in-saskatchewan/
Publications
Back Atcha Backlash, Canadian Dimension
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/back-atcha-backlash-bernadette-wagner
Reviews
Ethan Vilu : The Dry Valley, by Bernadette Wagner, periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetrics
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2021/04/ethan-vilu-dry-valley-by-bernadette.html
Fights the good fight: Bernadette Wagner's this hot place, Arc Poetry Magazine
https://arcpoetry.ca/2010/11/18/bernadette-wagner-fights-the-good-fight/

Weeding the Garden
I start at the outside edges
where the light is bright, work in
on a spiral toward darker parts.
Perennial grasses push
the edges of my patience, rampant
root re-generation overtaking beds of
meditative practice where once insight
blossomed purple, fuschia, yellow.
I dig deep. A garden fork
perpendicular to the ground,
tines prying as I angle up
releasing long-held tears.
Toss the clump
into rusted wheelbarrow,
push it to the compost heap.
From The Dry Valley (Radiant Press, 2019)
On the shore
You hurry the children
through snack time
jammie time
story time
to bed time
sneak peeks at my legs, bare
in your mind as my suitcase empties
until we goodnight the children and you
slow
purposefully
remove each item
and drop to the floor
my sweater, skirt, and blouse
but the stockings
you toss to the ceiling
settle on our bedside lamp
shimmer like watergrass
on the shore
of this hot place.
From This Hot Place (Thistledown Press, 2010)