12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lasänmą
Lasänmą(she/her)wasraisedinHainesJunction,YukonandisamemberoftheChampagneand Aishihik First Nation. Her English name is Mariah MacDonald, and she is a part of the Wolf...
View ArticleLaura Kolbe, The Decadent Movement
TEACHING SPEECHSaying yes to no and yes to yes tothe baby boy so many times a dayit’s like a people’s protest chant gone non-electric harboring a claim belongedto everyone who cares, we care, we...
View ArticleTanis MacDonald, Tall, Grass, Girl: poems
She larches the woods,the pond sedges her. Back lane brome brushesher ankle. Sun on asphalt,dandelion juice, the iron tang ofa train whanging by at night. Wild licorice by the tracksholds a creosote...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emer O’Toole
Originally from the West of Ireland, Emer O’Toole [photo credit: Trevor Browne] teaches performance, theatre and Irish studies at Concordia University. Along with her impressive academic credentials...
View Articlebook launch: rob mclennan + Garth Martens (w Jennifer Baker + Margo LaPierre)...
hey, Ottawa! come out on Wednesday, October 21 to Perfect Books on Elgin Street to catch Victoria poet Garth Martens and myself launching new poetry titles! alongside Ottawa poets Jennifer Baker and...
View Articledusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is more than thirteen years old, with new poems by more than seven hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For those unaware, I've been curating this weekly poem series over at...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zachary Brett Charles
Zachary Brett Charles(they/he) is a poet, multi-media artist, Spanish teacher, and apprentice gardener. They see mediums as powerful and peaceful means through which to change the human imagination and...
View ArticleSylvia Legris, Sleep Gate
Subwake Palette, FogSaline flat of silvery saltbush,scurfy, a twinflower’s tinny tone. A figment of sea-blitein a spindrift of congested clusters. Umbrella plant in its gaseous formconsolidates into...
View ArticleClaire 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!...
View Article12 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...
View ArticleSpotlight 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...
View Articlesix 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...
View Article12 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...
View ArticleSanna 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...
View ArticleAnnie 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...
View Article12 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...
View ArticleNathan 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...
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