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rob's list of twenty Canadian chapbook publishers for The League of Canadian...
My write-up on twenty Canadian chapbook publishers is now up at the blog for The League of Canadian Poets! My list includes: above/ground press, Apt 9 Press, AngelHousePress / DevilHousePress,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan MacIsaac
Dan MacIsaac’s Cries from the Ark, his debut collection of poetry, was published by Brick Books in September 2017. A trial lawyer and environmentalist, he served for ten years as a director on the...
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Laynie Browne, You Envelop Me
The roses by her bedside, thumbing. The texture of the roses is insistent. She stretches out in the mouth of the flower. In and out of the room no matter who is in the corolla. She needs to own the...
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Suzanne Zelazo, Lances All Alike
ConcussedHere, the thinking is decorative, breathing out of range in myth. She is the deep blue quiver of its aftermath. Balance the ledger, tally the debt, it’s strobe-lit and coupled. He slips like...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joe Milazzo
Joe Milazzo is a writer, editor, educator, and designer. He is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie (Civil Coping Mechanisms) and two collections of poetry: The Habiliments (Apostrophe Books)...
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my (small press) writing day : new essays + a submission call,
I’ve been curious for some time about The Guardian’s occasional feature “My Writing Day,”and thought it might be interesting to do a blog of the same, “for those of us who might never make it into The...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Broc Rossell and Jordan Scott on The...
The Elephants are an independent, open-genre press publishing heterodox materials as acts of love and solidarity with the communities in which they’re created, especially those underrepresented in the...
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Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir
Dear Current Occupant—House we all shared on Forgotten StreetTen people in a three-bedroom upper suite. Vancouver Special. The walls covered in tiny fingerprints. Bugs in the bed, crumbs on the stove,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Annick MacAskill
Annick MacAskill [photo credit: Heather Kirk] is the author of No Meeting Without Body(Gaspereau Press, 2018) and Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos(Frog Hollow Press, 2016). Her poetry and...
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Steven Zultanski, Honestly
I never met my great-uncle, Dick Stryker.But about ten years ago, while visiting family, I found his copy of Joyce’s Ulysses; the inside cover was stamped with his name and the pages were dotted with...
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poetry mini interviews : rob mclennan
[myself and Aoife having lunch with Stephen Brockwell, earlier this year]I recently participated in Thomas Whyte's poetry mini interviews blog, which posts individual question and answer pairings over...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emily Nilsen
Emily Nilsen was born and raised in Vancouver. Her book of poems, Otolith (icehouse, 2017) was published shortly after the chapbook Place, No Manual (Lake, 2017). She now lives in Nelson, BC.1 - How...
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Jocelyn Saidenberg, Kith & Kin
[birdbrain] there’s a sequence called time: she’s sick, she dies, she’s still dead, no matter the voice, passive or active, but the other won’t have it that way not in that order or tense. It figures...
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new from above/ground press: Atkins, McBay + Gregory, Earl, Beaulieu, Tucker,...
1962 - 2018 Tim Atkins$5See link here for more informationSigns of Our DiscontentArnold McBay and Gregory Betts$5See link here for more informationThe Book of MarkAmanda Earl$5See link here for more...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Natalie Appleton
Natalie Appletonis an award-winning Canadian writer living in Vernon, BC. She is a graduate of the University of Regina School of Journalism and the MA in Creative Writing (Narrative non-fiction)...
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Noah Eli Gordon, Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down?
The ProblemSomeone tied to a parking meter the dog that barks every time a woman approaches to insert a quarter. This makes her the subject. It is a metaphor for the aristocracy of money. One performer...
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m a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : s e v e n _ r e c e n t _ e s s a...
many gendered mothers is a project on literary influence featuring short essays by writers (of any/all genders) on the women, femme, trans, and non-binary writers who have influenced them, as a direct...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carrie Lorig
Carrie Lorigis the author of The Pulp vs. The Throne (Artifice Press). Her chapbooks include The Book of Repulsive Women, which was selected by Lily Hoang for the Essay Press Chapbook Contest, Reading...
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Spotlight series #25: Jamie Townsend
The 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 Oakland, California poet and editor Jamie...
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Kanada Koncrete: Material Poetries in the Digital Age
Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend much ofKanada Koncrete: Material Poetries in the Digital Age, the Canadian Literature Symposium at the University of Ottawa for 2018, organized by Robert...
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