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Kate Greenstreet, Young Tambling
It was in the mountains.She got hit my lightning, and wandered for a while.Only one thing disappeared.– Do you think of poetry as useful?– Yes, it has been to me.– Tell me some of the ways it has been...
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Daniel Zomparelli, Davie Street Translations
My short review of Daniel Zomparelli's Davie Street Translations (Talonbooks) is now online at Bywords.ca
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sarah Gridley
Sarah Gridleyis the author of three books of poetry: Weather Eye Open (2005) and Green is the Orator (2010), both published by the University of California Press, and Loom(2013), published by Omnidawn....
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Eric Baus, Scared Text
My review of Eric Baus' Scared Text (The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, 2011) is now online at Galatea Resurrects #20.
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Ongoing notes: late May, 2013
While digging through boxes to prepare further archive for the University of Calgary, I found this note from the late Jane Rule, with the best line about John Newlove: "He bit me at a party a century...
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12 or 20 (second series) with Marguerite Pigeon
Marguerite Pigeon is a writer of fiction and poetry. Her first book, a poetry collection called Inventory (Anvil Press 2009), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her first novel, Open Pit...
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Yoko’s Dogs, Whisk
TEA CEREMONYwipers sluice pollenfrom the windshield—tea ceremonythe porch lights upbats return to the barnmoon my companionon the roadheading homein the house I left last nightpeople are brushing their...
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Profile of Margaret Christakos' Influency, with a few questions, at Open...
My profile of Margaret Christakos' Influency Salon, with a few questions, is now online at Open Book: Ontario. Photos by Ralph Kolewe.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lynn Xu
Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons(Omnidawn, 2013) and June (a chapbook from Corollary Press, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, Boston...
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Mary Austin Speaker, Ceremony
ORIGIN STORYIt began with a walk in the woods.The weather became us.We came to find the owlswho became trees.Feathers whitenedthe corners of our roomwhich became our winter habits.So we invented...
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12 or 20 (seccond series) questions with Mary Hagey
Mary Hagey grew up on a dairy farm in Southern Ontario near Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo. A long-time resident of Montreal, she attended Concordia University, majoring in studio art with a minor in...
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DistanceYou tell me she was shaved& the saints don’t mind.This is another poem about a wall.Ambiguous as well-water,your notes on dusk & flexible speculations.Pretty as theory. Like youI’m...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stella Harvey
Stella Leventoyannis Harvey was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved to Calgary as a child with her family. In 2001, Stella founded the Whistler Writers Group, also known as the Vicious Circle, which each...
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The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 14, 2013:...
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading with readings/launches by:Steven Artelle (Ottawa)Liz Worth (Toronto)Kanina Dawson...
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Claude Royet-Journoud, Four Elemental Bodies
an air sentenceanimalsin locus immobilewhich is used to batter historyfearnothing elseParisian writer Claude Royet-Journoud’s Four Elemental Bodies (trans. Keith Waldrop; Providence RI: Burning Deck,...
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Allan Safarik, Famous Roadkill
My short review of Allan Safarik's Famous Roadkill (Hagios Press, 2012) is now online at Arc poetry magazine.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laurie Duggan
Laurie Duggan grew up in Melbourne and over the years has lived in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. Since 2006 he has been living in a market town East Kent in the UK and is a regular reader on the...
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new chapbook: Mother Firth's, Gaspereau Press
My new chapbook, Mother Firth's, is now available from Gaspereau Press, number 26 in their "Devil's Whim" occasional chapbook series.Inside cover image of Mother Firth's/Isaac Firth's Tavern from a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kanina Dawson
Kanina Dawson’swork has appeared in a variety of Canadian literary publications, including Prism International, subTerrain, Descant, The Malahat Review and Event Magazine. She has been awarded...
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Brian Teare, Companion Grasses
Rocky, uneven, enclosed by chaparral then opening onto pasture, our sightline belonged solely to path. Deer-track lent color, umber & ochre; rock, light-struck, clips of scintilla; bark, lichen’s...
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