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ABOUT MAPLE PARK
Take a trip back in time to Maple Park, a 1950s subdivision. From free-ranging through construction sites to dealing with teenage angst, Margaret’s observations offer readers many points of identification. Humour and pathos drive the narrative with insights into post-war housing tract culture, immigration and feminist issues.
“The Fence” by Margaret Rodgers
March 28, 2025Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “The Fence” by Margaret Rodgers.
The FenceBy Margaret Rodgers
The year we lived near the woods we kept goats
and sheep
and a cow with a map of North Africa on its back.
We built fences.
The darkness stayed on the other side.
There was a church, but nobody came,
a cross, lamb,
but that was then.
We never lived near a woods.
We never kept goats,
or had a cow.
There was a fence though.
March 28, 2025Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “The Fence” by Margaret Rodgers.
The FenceBy Margaret Rodgers
The year we lived near the woods we kept goats
and sheep
and a cow with a map of North Africa on its back.
We built fences.
The darkness stayed on the other side.
There was a church, but nobody came,
a cross, lamb,
but that was then.
We never lived near a woods.
We never kept goats,
or had a cow.
There was a fence though.
Margaret Rodgers | Canada | 905 436 8465 | [email protected]
ESSAYS/ARTICLES/REVIEWS (CLICK GREY TITLES FOR web access)
2024 "Leaving Maple Park" Horseshoe Literary Magazine Iii February
2022 "OSA and the Avant-garde" Breath, Heart, Spirit: The OSA 150 Years
2019 "Janet Read: High Arctic" catalogue essay
2017 "Xiaojung Yan Canadian Art Online December
2016 "Xiaojing Yan" Sculpture October v35#10
Crossing Borders I and II exhibition catalogue, VAC Clarington
2015 "Sally Thurlow: Sculptor" exhibition brochure February
"WhiteOut" WhiteOut catalogue January
2013 "Andrea Carvalho" ESPACE Fall 2013 #105
"Gerald Beaulieu" Sculpture July/August 2013 Vol. 32 No. 6 (77)
"Sally Thurlow's Reclamation at the VAC" OshaWhat Oshawa April
2012 "Tick Tock" OSHAWHAT Oshawa November
"Memories of Artfest: 1992 – 1995” OSHAWHAT Oshawa September
“Touring Art in Uxbridge” OSHAWHAT Oshawa August
“Fictionary at Station Gallery” OshaWhat August
“Oshawa's Juried Art Show,“ OSHAWHAT Oshawa June
“Boys to Men,” OSHAWHAT Oshawa April
"Not for the Faint Hearted" OSHAWHAT January
“Philip Beesley,” Sculpture March 2012 Vol. 31 No. 2 (72-73)
2011 ”Canadian sculptor Marianne Lovink,” Public Art and Ecology Magazine Shanghai, China June 2011
“Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill” Sculpture May 2011 Vol 30 No. 4 (70)
2010 “Wayfinding all over the map,” catalogue essay for The Tree Museum 2008, Toronto READ
2009 “Nina Levitt: Re-Presenting Enigmatic Women,” Sculpture October 2009 Vol. 28 No. 8 (46-9)
“Vera Jacyk: Chysto, Chysto, Chysto,” ESPACE Sculpture Summer 2009 (45-6)
"Penelope Stewart at Edward Day, Toronto,” GLASS Quarterly Spring 2009 Issue 114 (58)
“ Lyndal Osborne: Delectable Decay,” Canadian Art Winter 2009
2008 “Tim Whiten at Olga Korper,” The Urban Glass Art Quarterly Fall 2008 Issue 112 (86)
“Is this Not a Renaissance Garden?” ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2008 (41-2)
“Transplants: MICHAEL BELMORE (Canada) JAFFA LAAM LAM (Hong Kong) WEN CHIH WANG (Taiwan)” catalogue essay for The Tree Museum 2007 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Toronto (6 16)
2007 “The Private World of Viktor Tinkl,” ESPACE Sculpture 82 HIVER / WINTER 2007 2008 Vol. 82 (34-5)
“Judy Chicago: Chicago in Glass,” The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly Winter 2007 08 Issue 109 (59)
“Beside / Under / Within: Penelope STEWART's Canopy Series,” ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2007 Vol. 79 (39-40)
2006 “Brian JUNGEN : Contemporary Mythologies,” ESPACE Sculpture Fall 2006 Vol. 77 (36-7)
“Jane Buyers: Inscriptions,” ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2006 Vol. 75 (41)
2005 “Ed Pien: In A Realm of Others,” ESPACE Sculpture Winter 2005 2006 Vol.74 (41-2)
Contact Visual Arts Centre of Clarington for project details to 2004
2003 “Finding Camp X: Contemporary Considerations of an Enigma,” Canadian Art Spring 2003 Vol.20, no. 1 (99)
1998 “Timmins Landscape: A Personal Journey Back into The Northland,” Highgrader Magazine January/February 1998 Vol.4 no. 1 (25-27) photographs and story
1997 "Halifax Review: Timeless Forms. Dawn MacNutt at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia," Artfocus Fall 1997 Vol.5, no. 3 (25)
1997 "Intimations of Mortality in Oshawa," Artfocus Spring 1997 Vol. 5, no. 2 (12-13)1997
"Art at the Front," Proceedings from State Park Pennsylvania: Third Penn State International Symposium on the History of Art Education State Park, Pennsylvania.
1996 "Painting with Colour," Art Impressions Autumn 1996 Vol.12, no.4 (47-50)
1996 "Exploring the Quintessential: A Review of The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation," in Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. Michèle Lacombe Summer 1996 Vol, 31 no.2 (174-78)
1996 "Evocative House Plants Dominate Walker Exhibition," Art Impressions Summer 1996 Vol.12, no.3 (12-13)
1996 "A Northern Vision: The Group of Seven at the Vancouver Art Gallery," Artifact Vol. 2, no. 1 (6-9)
1996 "A Fragile Balance," Art Impressions Spring 1996
1996 "Celebrating the Local," review of exhibition Defining the Site at Art Gallery of Hamilton," in MIX: the magazine of artist run culture, ed. Margaret Christakos Vol. 21, no. 4 (48-49)
1996 "Studio Visits," Defining the Site: a Collective History Project, Hamilton Artists' Inc. 1975-1995, catalogue essay
1996 "Review of The Female Imaginary: Symposium on Feminist Practice in the Visual Arts," in Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. Michèle Lacombe Winter 1996
1995 "Review of Tom Thomson: The Last Spring," Art Impressions Spring 1995
1994 "Review of The Art of Fred Ross: A Timeless Humanism," Art Impressions 10.5 (Winter 1994)
"Lines of Modernity," Extension 3.3 (Spring 1994) 1993
1993 "Tyranny of Talent," a review of Hot Breakfast for Sparrows in Art Impressions 9.2 (Summer 1993)
1988 Interview with Joyce Wieland Gallerie (Vancouver)
BOOK
2008-10 Editor, Women in . . . Oshawa: The IRIS Group.
1995 Locating Alexandra Toronto: ECW, 1995.
Review of " : Anderson, Janice. Review of Locating Alexandra by Margaret Rodgers.
Journal of Canadian Art History 18, no.1 (1997): 112-119.
1994 Co-authored with Pam Patterson, Mapping the (UN)Familiar Bowmanville: VAC Clarington.
LITERARY ETC.
2025 A poem “The Fence” has been accepted by Poetry Pause, The League of Canadian Poets.
2024 My images from a recent exhibition are published in Hole In The Head no. 5 issue 3 a quarterly journal of art, photography, & poetry.
2024 "The Women" Quagmire Magazine (pending)
2021 "Ironing Out the Pandemic" and "Wonder" The Sunshine Review Issue 3 10-13
1992 "Elective Surgery and the Woman Artist" Contemporary Verse 15.3 (Winnipeg)
"Hard Currency" Canadian Woman Studies (York University)
1990 "O Canada Poems" Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Spring 1990 15.2 (Halifax)
2024 "Leaving Maple Park" Horseshoe Literary Magazine Iii February
2022 "OSA and the Avant-garde" Breath, Heart, Spirit: The OSA 150 Years
2019 "Janet Read: High Arctic" catalogue essay
2017 "Xiaojung Yan Canadian Art Online December
2016 "Xiaojing Yan" Sculpture October v35#10
Crossing Borders I and II exhibition catalogue, VAC Clarington
2015 "Sally Thurlow: Sculptor" exhibition brochure February
"WhiteOut" WhiteOut catalogue January
2013 "Andrea Carvalho" ESPACE Fall 2013 #105
"Gerald Beaulieu" Sculpture July/August 2013 Vol. 32 No. 6 (77)
"Sally Thurlow's Reclamation at the VAC" OshaWhat Oshawa April
2012 "Tick Tock" OSHAWHAT Oshawa November
"Memories of Artfest: 1992 – 1995” OSHAWHAT Oshawa September
“Touring Art in Uxbridge” OSHAWHAT Oshawa August
“Fictionary at Station Gallery” OshaWhat August
“Oshawa's Juried Art Show,“ OSHAWHAT Oshawa June
“Boys to Men,” OSHAWHAT Oshawa April
"Not for the Faint Hearted" OSHAWHAT January
“Philip Beesley,” Sculpture March 2012 Vol. 31 No. 2 (72-73)
2011 ”Canadian sculptor Marianne Lovink,” Public Art and Ecology Magazine Shanghai, China June 2011
“Shayne Dark and Dennis Gill” Sculpture May 2011 Vol 30 No. 4 (70)
2010 “Wayfinding all over the map,” catalogue essay for The Tree Museum 2008, Toronto READ
2009 “Nina Levitt: Re-Presenting Enigmatic Women,” Sculpture October 2009 Vol. 28 No. 8 (46-9)
“Vera Jacyk: Chysto, Chysto, Chysto,” ESPACE Sculpture Summer 2009 (45-6)
"Penelope Stewart at Edward Day, Toronto,” GLASS Quarterly Spring 2009 Issue 114 (58)
“ Lyndal Osborne: Delectable Decay,” Canadian Art Winter 2009
2008 “Tim Whiten at Olga Korper,” The Urban Glass Art Quarterly Fall 2008 Issue 112 (86)
“Is this Not a Renaissance Garden?” ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2008 (41-2)
“Transplants: MICHAEL BELMORE (Canada) JAFFA LAAM LAM (Hong Kong) WEN CHIH WANG (Taiwan)” catalogue essay for The Tree Museum 2007 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Toronto (6 16)
2007 “The Private World of Viktor Tinkl,” ESPACE Sculpture 82 HIVER / WINTER 2007 2008 Vol. 82 (34-5)
“Judy Chicago: Chicago in Glass,” The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly Winter 2007 08 Issue 109 (59)
“Beside / Under / Within: Penelope STEWART's Canopy Series,” ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2007 Vol. 79 (39-40)
2006 “Brian JUNGEN : Contemporary Mythologies,” ESPACE Sculpture Fall 2006 Vol. 77 (36-7)
“Jane Buyers: Inscriptions,” ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2006 Vol. 75 (41)
2005 “Ed Pien: In A Realm of Others,” ESPACE Sculpture Winter 2005 2006 Vol.74 (41-2)
Contact Visual Arts Centre of Clarington for project details to 2004
2003 “Finding Camp X: Contemporary Considerations of an Enigma,” Canadian Art Spring 2003 Vol.20, no. 1 (99)
1998 “Timmins Landscape: A Personal Journey Back into The Northland,” Highgrader Magazine January/February 1998 Vol.4 no. 1 (25-27) photographs and story
1997 "Halifax Review: Timeless Forms. Dawn MacNutt at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia," Artfocus Fall 1997 Vol.5, no. 3 (25)
1997 "Intimations of Mortality in Oshawa," Artfocus Spring 1997 Vol. 5, no. 2 (12-13)1997
"Art at the Front," Proceedings from State Park Pennsylvania: Third Penn State International Symposium on the History of Art Education State Park, Pennsylvania.
1996 "Painting with Colour," Art Impressions Autumn 1996 Vol.12, no.4 (47-50)
1996 "Exploring the Quintessential: A Review of The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation," in Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. Michèle Lacombe Summer 1996 Vol, 31 no.2 (174-78)
1996 "Evocative House Plants Dominate Walker Exhibition," Art Impressions Summer 1996 Vol.12, no.3 (12-13)
1996 "A Northern Vision: The Group of Seven at the Vancouver Art Gallery," Artifact Vol. 2, no. 1 (6-9)
1996 "A Fragile Balance," Art Impressions Spring 1996
1996 "Celebrating the Local," review of exhibition Defining the Site at Art Gallery of Hamilton," in MIX: the magazine of artist run culture, ed. Margaret Christakos Vol. 21, no. 4 (48-49)
1996 "Studio Visits," Defining the Site: a Collective History Project, Hamilton Artists' Inc. 1975-1995, catalogue essay
1996 "Review of The Female Imaginary: Symposium on Feminist Practice in the Visual Arts," in Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. Michèle Lacombe Winter 1996
1995 "Review of Tom Thomson: The Last Spring," Art Impressions Spring 1995
1994 "Review of The Art of Fred Ross: A Timeless Humanism," Art Impressions 10.5 (Winter 1994)
"Lines of Modernity," Extension 3.3 (Spring 1994) 1993
1993 "Tyranny of Talent," a review of Hot Breakfast for Sparrows in Art Impressions 9.2 (Summer 1993)
1988 Interview with Joyce Wieland Gallerie (Vancouver)
BOOK
2008-10 Editor, Women in . . . Oshawa: The IRIS Group.
1995 Locating Alexandra Toronto: ECW, 1995.
Review of " : Anderson, Janice. Review of Locating Alexandra by Margaret Rodgers.
Journal of Canadian Art History 18, no.1 (1997): 112-119.
1994 Co-authored with Pam Patterson, Mapping the (UN)Familiar Bowmanville: VAC Clarington.
LITERARY ETC.
2025 A poem “The Fence” has been accepted by Poetry Pause, The League of Canadian Poets.
2024 My images from a recent exhibition are published in Hole In The Head no. 5 issue 3 a quarterly journal of art, photography, & poetry.
2024 "The Women" Quagmire Magazine (pending)
2021 "Ironing Out the Pandemic" and "Wonder" The Sunshine Review Issue 3 10-13
1992 "Elective Surgery and the Woman Artist" Contemporary Verse 15.3 (Winnipeg)
"Hard Currency" Canadian Woman Studies (York University)
1990 "O Canada Poems" Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Spring 1990 15.2 (Halifax)