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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shannon Arntfield
Shannon Arntfield is a second-career trauma informed therapist whose work explores the challenges and rewards of saying ‘yes’ to all of life’s effluence. Her first full length book collection Python...
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Susan Landers, What To Carry Into the Future
It’s common in dystopias for people to go underground to survive after all possibilities on the surface have been exhausted. To go underground is to separate oneself from the most basic indicators of...
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Zane Koss, Country Music
tell the cougar story so jerry and tom go outthis one time to check jerry’s traps he’s got a line outfor lynx and you have to check these quite regularlyso the poor...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lesley Wheeler
Lesley Wheeler, Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, is the author ofMycocosmic, runner-up for the Dorset Prize and her sixth poetry collection. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible...
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Spotlight series #108 : Mahaila Smith
The one hundred and eighth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Ottawa writer and editor Mahaila...
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today is Aoife's ninth birthday,
Happy birthday, Aoife!Nine. god sakes.She had a birthday party this past Sunday, during which she and seven of her friends, as well as sister Rose and myself, could not figure out how to escape the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Louise Akers
Louise Akersis a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a PhD student in English at NYU and is the co-organizer of the small press and working group, the Organism for Poetic Research. Akers is the author...
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Adam Haiun, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid
The full-length debut by Montreal poet Adam Haiun is the intriguing I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid(Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2025), a book of lines, grids and shapes set across each...
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Gloria Frym, Lies & More Lies
RealityWe’re not at the beginning of the beginning. Or at the middle of the beginning. We’re not at the end of the beginning. We’re at the beginning of the middle. It will take some time to reach the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Estlin McPhee
Estlin McPhee is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of...
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Danielle Pafunda, Along the Road Everyone Must Travel
I walked the road seaward for the feast. I took my gold cuffs that keep my voice down, I combed the poison out of my lashes, I lashed to my breast a plate for knitted hours so that I might not /...
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To Live and Die in Picton,
What is a weekend? On Thursday, we drove out to Picton to visit father-in-law and his wife (had we really not been since July?), given Rose's fever had subsided, finally. She'd been Wednesday in bed...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Omar Ramadan
Omar Ramadan is a Lebanese-Canadian writer and PhD candidate in creative writing. He is the author of This Sweet Rupture (out now with UAlberta press!), the chapbooks Sun Dogs (forthcoming with Agatha...
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Mahaila Smith, Seed Beetle: poems
ThesisIt was something the discourse got stuck on:Where the eels came from.No one had ever seen them mate.Maybe all I needed to knowWas how they changed form and why;what question they were answering...
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Nuala O’Connor, Menagerie
A Grey Gardens for GalwayFleece-thick dust on the windowsills. A cobweb, big as a sail, wafts in the breath of my passing. Ivy lattices the windowpanes and one long, ambitious tendril has found its...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Farah Ghafoor
Farah Ghafoor is the author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025). Selections of her debut poetry collection won the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, and were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize...
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Jessica Bebenek, No One Knows Us There: Poems
CosmosO Neil deGrasse Tyson, I need youmore than words can say. To tell me againof our slow seep through generations,our transient companionship. Fill me againwith beer and then weed and then foodand...
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Wayne Miller, The End of Childhood
AMERICAN DOMESTICThe drone was oursSlipping homeToward a distant strip of earthThat was also America While the operatorStared into his net of pixelsThen stepped downFrom the consequence of the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Marc Perez
A poet, Marc Perez is the author of Dayo (Brick Books) and Domus (Anstruther Press). 1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous?...
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Michael Chang, Things a Bright Boy Can Do
HERE WE GO FOREVERcody who goes both waysthey say familiarity accelerates impact in secret huddlestender kid w/ the kind tan poached pearsvanilla ice cream who was wearing the flip-flops?i’m...
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Chaudiere Books : National Poetry Month,
In case you didn't catch, I curated and posted daily poems once again this year for National Poetry Month over at the Chaudiere Books blog. Can you believe this is the twelfth year I've been doing...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mahaila Smith
Mahaila Smith (they/them) is a researcher, poet and editor based on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Ontario. Their novelette in verse, Seed Beetle, is forthcoming with...
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Karen Solie, Wellwater: poems
BERKELEY HILLS, 2022In Wildcat Canyon live the laurels.No rain in two months and nine days.Like girls do, the laurels growfrom the soil of a deep reserve. Inside their frivolity they gatherthemselves,...
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Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Rich Wife
*At night on a beach nearbyA woman was walkingAll around her the inhalation and the exhalation of the surfThe ocean heaving in a continuous soothing respirationIn this version of the storyI have...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ellen Chang-Richardson
Ellen Chang-Richardsonis an award-winning poet, writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and...
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