In Selected & New Poems, Chad Norman hopes readers find an entrance into his poems. Over the years, both the page and the performance have provided doors without locks, just handles that need to be turned, and pushed upon, finding the poem no more than a room to be entered, a room to be found both comfortable and easily exited. However, these poems have their own desires, and wishes, to go back out into the world, caught in the mind, or the memory, or where the heart stores what the past and the future may wish to present to whomever chooses to stop and read what they offer.

Chad Norman enjoys the friendly pace of the East Coast. His poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and newspapers across Canada, as well as literary journals in the United States, England, Scotland, Australia, Japan, Denmark, Israel, and India. In 1992, he won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award For Poetry. Norman has given poetry workshops to all levels of educational institutions, and talks on Literacy and celebrating Canadian Poetry, during his 1997 cross—Canada reading tour, Live The Reading Life, sponsored by Via Rail, Keg Steakhouse, Greyhound Bus Lines, as well as many more sponsors from each province. Norman has organized The All is Well Mixture, an event held on occasion over the years in Truro and Vancouver, to showcase national and local authors and musicians. He also founded Grant Block Press, a new publishing venture created to bring out books without government funding. His most recent book, Masstown, was released in the fall of 2013 from Black Moss Press in Windsor, ON. He is working on a new collection called Simona, in order to celebrate the Truro, NS, SPCA and the special furry friend they allowed his family to take home. He is also a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, and a full member of The League of Canadian Poets. He organizes and hosts RiverWords: Poetry & Music festival, held in Truro, NS, each year in July.

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