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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part seven,
[Stuart Ross'Proper Tales Press table]Okay, I clearly picked up too many items at this year’s Toronto’s Meet the Presses’ annual Indie Literary Market [see part six of my notes here; and my most recent...
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m a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : r e c e n t _ e s s a y s
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 Laurie Anne Fuhr
Laurie Anne Fuhr is a former Ottawan poet and singer-songwriter now living in Calgary. Her first book, night flying, was released in Fall 2018 from Frontenac House (Calgary), and her first EP, love in...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Isabelle Kenyon on Fly on the Wall...
Isabelle Kenyon is a northern UK based poet and the author of This is not a Spectacle, Micro chapbook, The Trees Whispered (Origami Poetry Press) and Digging Holes To Another Continent (Clare Songbirds...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part four,
[some of the above/ground press spread]Here’s another batch of items I picked up at the most recent ottawa small press book fair [see part three of this list here; see the most recent list from...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Jennifer Zhou interviews Kristin Chang
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, asJennifer Zhou interviews emerging poet Kristin Chang. Other interviews from my tenure include:...
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happy holidays! christmassing! etcetera
Here are some photos recently taken of our wee girls for the sake of our Christmas card this year.
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Laurie Anne Fuhr, Night Flying
prairie crypticcombines in the darkcould be harvesting anythingGiven she is both a former Ottawa poet and original Peter F. Yacht Club member[she reads in Ottawa on Friday as part of our annual...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Andrew Wilmot
Andrew Wilmot is a writer and editor based out of Toronto, Ontario. He has won awards for screenwriting and short fiction, with credits including Found Press, The Singularity, Glittership, Turn to Ash,...
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new from above/ground press: Hyland, Swensen, Mangold, Etherin, Reid + a...
PLANE FLY AT NIGHT(Tuscaloosa Notebook Poems) MC Hyland$5 See link here for more informationSeventeen SummersCole Swensen$5 See link here for more informationCupcake Royalesecond editionSarah...
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A ‘best of’ list of 2018 Canadian poetry books
Here I go again. And who am I to go against tradition? Well, the good traditions, anyway. Here is my annual list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating” (given ‘best’ is such an inconclusive...
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Stephanie Anderson, If You Love Error So Love Zero
It is a facsimile. It is facial angle:European woman. It is stomachsimple, similar to a box. It is oneither side of inside. It is grapple.It is extracted from lignite and peat.It is worn by women. It...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Hana Shafi
Hana Shafi is a writer and artist who illustrates under the name Frizz Kid. Both her visual art and writing frequently explores themes such as feminism, body politics, racism, and pop culture with an...
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Ongoing notes: New Year’s Day, 2019
Aoife, during one of our shopping/photocopying jauntsGadzooks! Where does it all go? Here we are, another year blah and another year blah blah. Older, certainly. So: hoping your 2019 is better than...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is nearly six years old, with three hundred new poems published to date! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the online poetry...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laura Brown
Laura Catherine Brown’s second novel, MADE BY MARY, launched with C&R Press in June 2018. Her debut novel, QUICKENING, was published by Random House, and featured in Barnes & Noble’s Discover...
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Hailey Higdon, Hard Some
two women walk into a towngood we tried for neighborlyin the shadow of a repeated national harm, shit-showdestroyed towns, big and small peopleviolence used in relation to puritysome...
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the launch of ottawater #15: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal
Ottawa’s annual pdf poetry journaledited by rob mclennanCome out to the launch of the fifteenth issue of ottawater, featuring new writing by Sylvia Adams, Barâa Arar, Susan J. Atkinson, John Barton,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Babak Lakghomi
Babak Lakghomi is the author of Floating Notes(Tyrant Books, 2018). His fiction has appeared in NOON,Egress, New York Tyrant, and Green Mountains Review among other places. He lives and writes in...
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