Open Heart Forgery is a Halifax-based grassroots organization that aims to give voice to Nova Scotia poets and to build a local community of writers and readers who love the written word.
Since its creation in March 2010, Open Heart Forgery has published more than 1700 poems and lyrics by over 450 local writers. Run entirely by volunteers, the organization releases free monthly issues both online and in print, hosts regular open mic events, and now showcases poems from across Nova Scotia and beyond in its digital OHF Abroad project.
Open Heart Forgery celebrates its tenth anniversary with this new anthology collection, featuring works by 93 local writers and a special foreword by Canadian author and former parliamentary poet laureate George Elliott Clarke. All proceeds from sales of the anthology go towards covering costs for the organization.
