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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is the author of the memoir, The Going and Goodbye (Platypus Press, 2017) and a forthcoming chapbook, None of Them Home (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2018). She has an MFA from Queens...
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Ongoing notes: early June, 2018
The spring edition of the ottawa small press book fair is coming up quickly! Might we see you there? The summer has begun, and I’m in recovery from a week+ without laptop, a couple of days without air...
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On Writing : an occasional series
We're six years and more than one hundred and fifty essays into the occasional series of "On Writing" essays I've been curating over at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog. I've included an updated list,...
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Eve Joseph, Quarrels
YOU KNOCK ON THE DOOR BUT NOBODY ANSWERS CUPPING your hands around your face you peer through the side-panel of frosted glass. A kettle is whistling, a woman singing as she sets the table. This is a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan Brady
Dan Brady is the author of the poetry collection Strange Children (Publishing Genius, 2018), and two chapbooks, Cabin Fever / Fossil Record (Flying Guillotine Press) and Leroy Sequences (Horse Less...
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David W. McFadden : October 11, 1940 – June 6, 2018
Frank O’Hara used to say he couldn’t enjoy ablade of grass unless there was a subway handy; David W. McFadden, “New York,” The Art of Darkness (1984) [photo by Christine McNair:...
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Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of
2. If one has no brother, then one used to have a brother. There is, you see, no shortage of gain and loss. Let’s admit without embellishment what we do with each other. When the daughter begins to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Curtis LeBlanc
Curtis LeBlanc is a poet and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. His debut collection, Little Wild, was published by Nightwood Editions in April 2018. His poems have won the Readers' Choice...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Jill Mceldowney and Caroline Chavatel...
Madhouse Press is a small chapbook press based out of Las Cruces, New Mexico that specializes in hand-bound letterpress chapbooks. Our press seeks to preserve and proliferate the ephemeral art of the...
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rob mclennan's poetry workshops: July-September, in our wee house,
I return once again to offering poetry workshops. Originally held at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeebar, this session will be held at our wee house on Alta Vista Drive (just south of Randall...
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Spotlight series #26 : Manahil Bandukwala
The 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 Ottawa poet and editor Manahil Bandukwala.The...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Marcel St. Pierre
Hailing from Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Marcel St. Pierre is now a Toronto-based actor, improvisor, comedian, author, writer and producer. Marcel has performed with sketch and improv comedy across...
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Kerri Webster, The Trailhead
Do not say I am insensible. Here is the demon trapped under glass, and here I am, demiurge of the simulacrum, having given him universe within universe: ground (carpet), sky (jarred air), and above,...
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What I’m working on this week: Thirty-eight plastic flamingos
Everything moves slowly, as one might expect with wee children (I suspect the summer might be even more complicated to get work done, but there you go), but here is the opening of a short story I’ve...
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Peter Davis, Band Names & Other Poems
What MattersThe man was singing to the childrenbut the children weren’t listening“Because,” they said, “we are wearingwet blankets and beyond the abilityto matter.” “What’s that about matter?”said the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Alexander
David Alexander is the author of After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood Editions, 2018) and the chapbooks Modern Warfare (Anstruther Press, 2016) and Chicken Scratch (Puddles of Sky, 2014). His work has...
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Ongoing notes: mid-June, 2018
Before he sold it, Jake Kennedy lived in a little wooden house, built in 1948 or 1949. It was typical of the older homes in Kelowna, British Columbia, a small but booming city amid the lakes and...
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How the alphabet was made, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018): pre-order now!
My latest poetry title now has a page up at New York publisher Spuyten Duyvil’s website, which suggests you can totally start pre-ordering copies. Huzzah!You can order from them directly, or wait for...
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Joan Naviyuk Kane, A Few Lines in the Manifest
Call me Naviyuk. Through Melville, and perhaps only parallel to the current from Kristeva, I bring myself questions about the materiality of language: how do the histories and textures of words and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tom Haviv
Tom Haviv is the co-founder of Kaf Collective & Press. His debut book of poetry, A Flag of No Nation, and his first children's book, Woven, are both forthcoming in spring 2018. Here is his...
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