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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Valerie Wallace
Valerie Wallace’sdebut poetry collection House of McQueen (March 2018) was chosen by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry. In their starred review Publishers Weekly said that...
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Lindsay Turner, Songs & Ballads
THE NEW FORESTand then Sunday we went to seethe forest by the lake the new forestthe low forest the after-dinner forest the for-profit forestthe forest upwards beside the deep darkdark forest don’t...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laynie Browne
Laynie Browne is author of thirteen collections of poems and three novels. Recent books include You Envelop Me(Omnidawn 2017), Periodic Companions (Tinderbox 2018) and The Book of Moments(Presses...
View Articlefrom THE BOOK OF SMALLER
Title poemI would like to make a statement. Pause, between two notes. A torrent. I wrote a revision. Understate. With each new spill. The rules of the game are secret. A sentence is what annihilates...
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Landscape with Sex and Violence: Poems by Lynn Melnick
LANDSCAPE WITH SMUT AND PAVEMENTAt night I hallucinate the grunting discordwhich leapt from a human body as he destroyed mine.That very month, I obliterated a beetle on a shiny walkway.That month was...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with LM Rivera
LM Rivera lives in Santa Fe, NM. He co-edits Called Back Books with his partner Sharon Zetter. His work has appeared in Alien Mouth, FUZZ, Mannequin Haus, DUM DUM Zine, and elsewhere. His chapbook THE...
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now online: poemeleon : the Canadian issue,
poemeleon : the Canadian issue, edited by myself, is now online! Thanks so much to editor/publisher Cati Porter for allowing me to put this together!While not even pretending to be exhaustive, the...
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the opposite of silence : a new essay up on Chelene Knight's blog,
I've a new short essay up on Vancouver writer and editor Chelene Knight's #LearnWritingEssentials blog (see her introduction for the series here), of which my short essay, "the opposite of silence," is...
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Spotlight series #28 : Trish Salah
The twenty-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 Kingston writer and editor Trish Salah.The...
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THE ABOVE/GROUND PRESS SILVER ANNIVERSARY READING/LAUNCH/PARTY!
celebrating twenty-five years of continuous activity (and nearly nine hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents: nine readings and chapbook launches by:Natalee Caple (St....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shari Kasman
Shari Kasman is the author of a collection of short stories entitled Everything Life Has to Offer. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Taddle Creek, and This Magazine. When not writing Shari works on art...
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Caroline Szpak, Slinky Naïve
FRENCH REVOLUTIONI watched the live actionversion of Alice in Wonderland.It came with the cereal. I grewconfused and inheritedthe apartments with fistfulsof red table grapes from eachsynthetic nurse, a...
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The names of things, (X-Ray Literary Magazine,
My short story, "The names of things," is now online at X-Ray Literary Magazine. Thanks so much! For further of my short stories, check out the links on my author page, here.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rebecca Loudon
Rebecca Loudon lives and writes on Camano Island in Washington. She is the author of three collections of poetry Tarantella and Radish King from Ravenna Press and Cadaver Dogs from No Tell Books and...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Tony Nesca on Screamin' Skull Press
Tony Nesca was born in Torino, Italy in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age of three. He was raised in Winnipeg but relocated back to Italy several times until finally settling in Winnipeg in 1980. He...
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Erika Meitner, Holy Moly Carry Me
II. (WHO IS ON A JOURNEY TO A HOLY PLACE)In the 16th century, pilgrims on wanderingswere identified by fixed attributes:the staff, the shoulder bag, the badgeson their broad-brimmed hats. I am nota...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Megan Ross
Megan Ross was born in Johannesburg in 1989. She is the author of a book of poems called Milk Fever(uHlanga), and several short stories which have been runners up for and won numerous awards, including...
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some glengarry / highland games, etc
My father still in ICU during the long weekend (he was moved to a regular ward a few days after), so this the first he's missed one of our long weekends home [see our entry for last year, for...
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Headlight anthology 20 + 21
[ : ]You take the clothes that are left:two pairs of jeans, four t-shirts,a jumper, underwear, socks.You fold each item, then press theminto a bag.You go to the bathroom,take a fresh towel and a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carolyn Zaikowski
Carolyn Zaikowski is the author of the hybrid novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013). Her fiction,...
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