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Claire Marie Stancek, Operating Moon
This is the place. May basket rhymes. Bluntly identified the words.Enter the dream-house, brothers and sisters, leaving. A sterilebandage was applied to the entire record. This is the song of thewave!...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Maria Nazos
Maria Nazos is the author of The Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books, 2023), longlisted for the Angelo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, a collection of poems translated from the Greek poet...
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Spotlight series #125 : Elena Zhang
The one hundred and twenty-fifth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Chicago-based Chinese American...
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six poems from a new project : The book of questions,
In case you hadn’t seen, I’ve been working all month on a new poetry project, specifically prompted by the Tupelo Press 30/30 fundraiser, composing and posting a new poem daily all month to help raise...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Blair Trewartha
Blair Trewartha’s debut collection, Easy Fix (Palimpsest Press, 2014), was shortlisted for the Relit Award. He is the author of three chapbooks: Break In (Cactus Press, 2010), Porcupine...
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Sanna Wani, Lantern
my review of Toronto poet Sanna Wani's second full-length collection, Lantern (Toronto ON: House of Anansi, 2026), following My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi Press, 2022), is now online at...
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Annie Wenstrup, The Museum of Unnatural Histories
1997:Breaking sounds like a glaciercalving. Like ice sheets crashing onto saves. A wave is wateroscillating between the moon’s pull and the seabed’s cradle. A waveis the shape of the tension between...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nick Wilkshire
Nick Wilkshire is a lawyer and author of seven novels. He grew up in St. John's and spent five years in Whitehorse, Yukon before moving to Ottawa, where he now lives with his wife. They have three...
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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...
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Our 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,...
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12 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...
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Ongoing 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...
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Jody 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...
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12 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...
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Leigh 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...
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Patrick 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...
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12 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...
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Dani 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...
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Speak 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...
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12 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...
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