Hi, my name's Theodore Fox, and I'm a writer from Edmonton, Alberta, currently based in Montreal, Quebec, who contemplates gender, sexuality, illness, stillness, and creativity through poetry, fiction, criticism, and performance. Every week I write a new instalment of Sunday Poems , a poem and accompanying essay about something which has been going on in that week. I was the Winter 2015/2016 Writer in Residence for Latitude 53 .
In addition to my own work writing, I run poetry workshops for all ages, wine education events, a monthly video game discussion group , and a semi-monthly film discussion group . I also take a lot of selfies .
The Roman stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger complained of fearing "the lunacy of the poets, who encourage human frailty by their stories in which Jupiter, seduced by the pleasures of love-making is seen to double the length of the night. What else is it but to inflame our vices when they quote the gods to endorse them, and as a precedent for our failings they offer–and excuse–the wantonness of the gods?"