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Bhanu Kapil, entre-Ban
DELETE THE DELETIONS. TAKE THE FROSTED PINK HAND IN YOUR OWN HAND. BROWN-HANDED, STOP THIS NONSENSE.Stop counting to 57. Part of the count is your own premature demise. Your, you. Is the third person...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laura Ritland
Laura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada, including The Walrus, CNQ, Maisonneuve, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, and The Malahat Review. She is the author of the chapbook...
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Rahlia’s Ghost Press: Ramna Safeer, Meghan Harrison and Molly Cross-Blanchard
Vow to SelfI want to find the photographwhere we look like we’re in a song.I want to pink it to the medicine cabinet.I want to touch your kneeand have our home be the placeWhere the piano doesn’t...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ben Purkert
Ben Purkert is the author of FOR THE LOVE OF ENDINGS (Four Way Books, 2018). His poems, essays, and book reviews appear in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Tin House Online, AGNI, and elsewhere. A former...
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The telltale heart : a new short story up at Entropy,
I've a new short story, "The telltale heart," now up at Entropy magazine. Thanks so much! For links to further of my short stories, check out my author page.
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sam sax, bury it
POEM ABOUT WATERi get it. your body is blah blah blah percent water. oceans levitate, clouds urinate on the ground that grows our food. this is considered a miracle – this is a problem of language. i...
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Paul Vermeersch, Self Defence for the Brave and Happy
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM MONSTERSObserve the formalities. Call themby name. MisterBogeyman. Lordof the Flies. Civility disarms them.Band together. They want you torn—from the breast, from the page....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eve Joseph
Eve Joseph’s two books of poetry, The Startled Heart(Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book, In the...
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what we did on our summer vacation:
Someone asked recently what we did over the summer. That's a good question; what have we done? We've been around, mostly. My father has been in the hospital since the beginning of June, so that's been...
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Lucian Mattison, Reaper’s Milonga
Gin Gang MilongaIt follows the slug of bell tongue,rattle against the appleof an ox throat. Hoof afterhoof, breath cluffed,is this how we are all yoked?Death steps a tight circlemaintains the image of...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Erik Rasmussen
Erik Rasmussen is the Editor-In-Chief of At Large magazine, and the former Deputy Editor at MAN of the WORLD. His articles, essays, interviews and photographs have appeared in numerous magazines and...
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new from above/ground press: Brockwell, Hall/Kinmond, Mavreas, Ross, hanna,...
Immune to the SacredStephen Brockwell$5See link here for more informationAlternative Girdersa collaboration / 2014 - 2017Stuart Kinmond / Phil Hall$5See link here for more informationA MERCY OF...
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Susan Briscoe (November 13, 1966 – August 31, 2018)
Sad news out of Montreal yesterday, that the poet Susan Briscoe has died, two years after a diagnosis of advanced terminal cancer, something she ended up writing about on a blog she created for such a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Diana Khoi Nguyen
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest. She is a poet and multimedia artist whose work has appeared in Poetry,...
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(another) very short story,
Temporal linearity, as we know it, doesn’t apply to memory. A song that slips into your head is often a gesture, announcing that the song will soon surface. Office background, car radio or one of your...
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Transaction Histories, Poems by Donna Stonecipher
In Europe around the turn of the last century, all upper-class boys were ceremoniously photographed wearing sailor suits. Now flea markets all over the continent overflow with little blue...
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Priscila Uppal (October 30, 1974-September 5, 2018)
Sad news from Natalee Caple yesterday, that Toronto writer Priscila Uppal died early on Wednesday morning, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Natalee Caple had been good enough to provide a head’s up...
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Spotlight series #29 : Kyle Flemmer
The twenty-ninth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Calgary poet, editor and publisher Kyle...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lauren Russell
Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta, 2017). She was the 2014-2015 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the 2016 VIDA...
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my (small press) writing day : new essays + ongoing 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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