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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Catherine Pikula
Catherine Pikula[photo credit: Olympia Shannon] is a secretary, writer, thinker, and educator. She holds a BA in literature and philosophy from Bennington College and an MFA in poetry from New York...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part four,
[Paul Dutton]Further to my recent participation in Toronto’s Meet the Presses’ annual Indie Literary Market [see part three of my notes here; and you see I’ve been posting on our more recent ottawa...
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Arc Walk Ottawa #6 : Byward Market : curator/guide: rob mclennan
Arc Walks Ottawa is a series of guided walks based on poetry themes and capitalizing on the rich poetry history of Canada’s capital. Residents and visitors alike are welcome to join in on the walks to...
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Allison Chisholm, On the Count of None
My UnravellingWell, maybe I didclamour around the subtle sense of luxury.During the angular movementI disfigured a sandscript [sic] scholar.But maybe I didn’tabandon the child prodigyand the metabolic...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Wendy Trevino
Wendy Trevinowas born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend, friend & two senior cats. She has published...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part two,
[Sacha Archer of Burlington, Ontario's Simulacrum Press and Michael e. Casteels of Kingston's Puddles of Sky Press]Here’s another batch of items I picked up at the most recent ottawa small press book...
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Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Trauma Head
enter the disruption /Petals of the many-sided tree and inside corners arise from tears that occur in the broken layer, allowing blood under flatline pressure to enter the wall of the vessel and form a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stacy Austin Egan
Stacy Austin Egan'sfiction chapbook, You Could Stop It Here, was released by PANK Books this past spring. Her fiction has appeared in PANK Magazine, Driftwood Press, The New Plains Review, WomenArts...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part five,
[the Gap Riot Press table]It seems like I picked up rather a lot of publications at this year’s Toronto’s Meet the Presses’ annual Indie Literary Market [see part four of my notes here; and you see...
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Julie McIsaac, We Like Feelings. We Are Serious.
Statement of PoeticsEvery loss I have ever felt has registered in my brain, marked my body, and influenced all of my relationships. I know that you feel the same way. Please believe me, I want...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three,
[Aoife and Rose, colouring during post-fair clean-up]Here’s another batch of items I picked up at the most recent ottawa small press book fair [see part two of this list here; see the list from the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Josh Spilker
Josh Spilker is a writer and content strategist living in Nashville, TN. His new book is PLS Advise. When he's not writing, he's watching the NBA, paddleboarding or doing stuff with his family. Find...
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Richard Froude, Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
The Year of Half-Light remained in the moment of birth and death. The Year of Half-Light was the achievement we would to take to God but the Year of God refused to arrive. So we dug deeper into the...
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Spotlight series #32 : Stephanie Gray
The thirty-second in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Brooklyn poet-filmmaker Stephanie Gray.The...
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Ongoing notes: mid-December 2018
[our wee one, not feeling well]I’ve only been attempting to sketch out some further non-book fair related chapbook reviews for a few months now (why am I so behind on everything?), so here we go,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brenda Sciberras
Brenda Sciberras is a Winnipeg poet, who’s first poetry collectionMagpie Days (Turnstone Press)won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book at the Manitoba Book Awards and was also nominated...
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Arc walks, 2018 : byward market
[Brendan McNally's photo of us in the Tin House Courtyard, as part of the Northern Comfort entry] This is the text of the final of my four solicited “Arc Walks” [see links to the whole...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part six,
[Gary Barwin, composing; whether a poem, an email or himself, I do not know]God sakes, how much, exactly, did I pick up at this Toronto’s Meet the Presses’ annual Indie Literary Market [see part fiveof...
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fwd: VerseFest 2019 (Ottawa) seeking volunteers!
A note from Monty Reid, VERSeFest DirectorHi everyoneWe're gearing up for VerseFest 2019 (March 26-31). It promises to be the biggest and most dynamic poetry festival in Ottawa to date. It will...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Maya Sonenberg
Maya Sonenberg is the author of the story collections Cartographies(winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature) and Voices from the Blue Hotel. 26 Abductions, a chapbook of her prose and drawings...
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