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Spotlight series #126 : Dawn Macdonald
The one hundred and twenty-sixth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Whitehorse, Yukon poet Dawn...
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We are such stuff as Sainte-Adèle is made on, and our little life is rounded...
Another Sainte-Adèle Thanksgiving long weekend (an hour's drive north of Montreal, into the Laurentides), most likely the last, as mother-in-law has the place up for sale, finding the ongoing...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with A.D. Sui
A.D. Sui(London, ON) [photo credit: Yoah Sui] is a Ukrainian-born, internationally raised speculative writer, Nebula winner, and Aurora and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist. They are the...
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Benjamin Friedlander, One Hundred Etudes
By a clumsyCaress, stands onCeremony, not on Legs, and speaks,But under duress.Thirty: A LITTLE BOOK for RobertCreeley ANSWERING MACHINEA slurred questionGiven that Orono, Maine-based poet, editor and...
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Anna Veprinska, Wound Archive
Last night your bones achednext to mine: so this is love. The second full-length poetry title by Calgary-based poet and academic Anna Veprinska, quick on the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rebecca Wood
Rebecca Wood (she/her) lives with her plants and craft supplies in Toronto, Ontario. Her poetry, and creative nonfiction explore what it means to exist in a body with multiple chronic illnesses and...
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Adam O. Davis, Pyrrhic Symphony
The Nurse on the Nature of SilenceIn winter, my bodyis a tree. In summermy body is a tree.A bunch of dumbbirds brood in its branches.A bunch of dumb...
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Ongoing notes: The Fisher Small + Fine Press Fair (part one, : James Lindsay...
Another Fisher fair! I’ve already posted my report on the event, and, unfortunately, I’m unable to get into Toronto further this fall for the Meet the Presses Indie Lit Market or the TIFA small press...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ching-In Chen
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of Shiny City, recombinant(2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart's...
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Derek Beaulieu, Do It Wrong
To write poetry is to make an active choice to assert yourself. To write is to assert presence, to refuse to be voiceless; to articulate your passions, and to know that those passions deserve to be...
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Touch the Donkey : new interviews with Zhang, Smith, Farina, Heroux,...
Anticipating the release next week of the fifty-first of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], why not check out the interviews that have appeared with contributors to the fiftieth issue: Elena...
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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...
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Laura 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...
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Tanis 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...
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12 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...
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book 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...
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dusie : 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...
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12 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...
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Sylvia 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...
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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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