Nathan Dueck, Nathan Russel Dueck (1979— ): Mortifications
NATHAN RUSSEL DUECK (1979-2003)Before the ink had even dried on the contract, Nathan announced the news from atop a chair in the computer lab so everyone within earshot would know he’d soon to be an...
View ArticleOur remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we ascribe to Sainte-Adèle,
Didn't we just get back from being away? Halifax, Prince Edward Island, and all of that? Well, yes, but we also managed a long weekend at mother-in-law's cottage, a space we barely seem to get to,...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kyle Flemmer
Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher, and digital media artist from Calgary, Canada in Treaty 7 territory. In 2014, he founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Co., a small press focused on experimental...
View ArticleOngoing notes: late September, 2026 : Geordie Miller + Sherry Coffey,
You already know I’m reading tonight at Perfect Books in Ottawa, yes? As part of the shortlist reading for this year’s Archibald Lampman Award, reading from my shortlisted title, the book of sentences...
View ArticleJody Chan, Madness Belongs to the People
Don don ko doko doko. Don don ko doko doko! Taiko repertoire is often taught orally, relying on repetition. I learnt to drum through kuchi shōga, a system of call-and-response phonetic notation. The...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Marissa Lingen
Marissa Lingen is a freelance writer who lives in the Minneapolis suburbs with her family. She is the author of over three hundred works of short science fiction and fantasy and has no intention of...
View ArticleLeigh Kotsilidis, Some of Us May Live
SCIENTIFIC PREDICTABILITYWolf believes sciencecan predict his fate As if distant phenomenawill tell him something pivotal: whether he’ll get the perfect job,the exact moment she’ll pull away. He...
View ArticlePatrick Kindig, Agape
MENELAUSWhen Telemachus and Pisistratus arrive, Menelaus is overjoyed. They drink & drink & he tells war stories, talks about Odysseus. He leans against Telemachus’ shoulder & tells him he...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kelly Kaur
Kelly Kaur grew up in Singapore. She works and plays in Calgary. She is a writer, author, speaker and an educator. She was awarded the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award, the Calgary South Asian...
View ArticleDani Spinosa, Whispering Gallery: Poems
There is one student who is attentive and thoughtful in my college Classical Mythology class. She wants to make video games and has played Hades maybe fifty too many runs and she draws me an...
View ArticleSpeak to me as to thy thinkings, as thou dost ferry, (part three,
[catch part one here; part two here]Thursday, August 20, 2026: Aoife and I went for a wander, for coffee and pastries, walking by the array of lobster traps. So many! We wandered over to the cafe they...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Benjamin Gantcher
Benjamin Gantcher is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of a LABA fellowship as well as residencies from the UCross Foundation and the Omi International Arts Center. He is the author of the...
View ArticleMaria Nazos, Pulse
My review of Maria Nazos'Pulse (Oakland CA: Omnidawn, 2026) is now online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
View ArticleHari Alluri, Tabako on the Windowsill
Windowsill Offering for EricIn the crematorium’s service room, taking clumsy, ginger turns around the cardboard holding your body, such a thin distance, 4 generations of multi-iteration family scrawl...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jeremy Springsteed
Jeremy Springsteed is a barista and occasional activist living in Seattle. He was one of the founders of the Breadline Performance Series and a member of the ReDrum poetry collective. His work has been...
View Articlenew from above/ground press: Young, Graham, Goodwin, Spyker, Wilkins,...
; SPREE, Geoffrey Young $6 : Elegies for the Fish Prince of Arkansas, Lea Graham $6 ; Map of What Was Taken, Cara Goodwin $6 ; Bedtime stories for my imaginary friends, James Spyker $6 ; provocations,...
View Articlethe ottawa small press book fair, fall 2026 edition: November 14, 2026
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fairautumn 2026 : will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lori Lubeski
Lori Lubeski’s latest book is in another language. She is also the author of estranged domain, has the river of the body risen, and pilgrimage foliage. She lives in Connecticut.1. How did your first...
View Articlei left my (potato) heart on Prince Edward Island, (part two,
[see part one here] Wednesday, August 19, 2026: You might not be aware that our wee Aoife has been months begging us to take her to The Canadian Potato Museum (please, she begged us last fall, you can...
View Articlerob mclennan on Kyeren Regehr's The Poet Laureate Podcast,
I was interviewed on-stage by Kyeren Regehr (Victoria, British Columbia's seventh poet laureate, by the way, who I interviewed as part of the episode, also) as part of The Poet Laureate Podcast back in...
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