Aja Moore, hotwheel
Robert Duncan had something to say about psychosis but I have no one to text it to. If I have no one to text things to are they interesting? If the things I find interesting are really uninteresting,...
View ArticleTouch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Siklosi, majzels, Robins,...
Anticipating the release next week of the twentieth (!!!) issue of Touch the Donkey (a small poetry journal), why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with...
View Articlewhat we did on our christmas break etc
We had a lot going on this Christmas break, as you might imagine with wee children and an extended zoo of family [see last year’s entry here, as well], but with most of our plans not exactly falling...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Martha Batiz
Martha Batiz was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. She started publishing in 1993 at age 22. Her articles, chronicles, reviews and short stories have appeared...
View ArticleDeportment: The Poetry of Alice Burdick, selected with an introduction by...
I always write about the places I’m in, even if it’s not explicit. I mean, it seems explicit to me, but that’s because the inside of my brain makes sense to me. Sometimes there’s just an...
View ArticleBen Purkert, For The Love Of Endings
NATURAL INTELLIGENCEThe plural of anything is bound to be sharper:countless birds spelling V above my head.Where they land, the earth must slightly compress,hardening under their cool...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Robert Siek
Robert Siek is the author the poetry collections Purpose and Devil Piss (2013) and We Go Seasonal(2018), both published by Sibling Rivalry Press. 1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your...
View ArticleSpotlight series #33 : Kerry Gilbert
The thirty-third in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Vernon, BC poet Kerry Gilbert.The first eleven...
View ArticleKen Hunt, The Lost Cosmonauts
Lost cosmonauts and astronauts are the heroes (or, in many cases, the martyrs and scapegoats) of modernity’s mythical expeditions into outer space, figures that remain central to propagandistic...
View ArticleTheta Wave Volume 1 : poems,
I have some poems included in Volume 1 of Theta Wave; thanks so much! I have further links to plenty of work online at my author page, also.
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Gillian Cummings
Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State...
View ArticleNina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House
elegy with burnt spoon & horse chestnutsthoughtthere weretiny coyotesin the walls.could feel my lipsbut they weren’t attached.lights harshingthe big rigssway in their wind.snaggletooth girlswith...
View ArticleTommy Pico, Nature Poem
oh, but you don’t look very Indianis a thing ppl feel comfortable saying to me on dates.What rhymes with, fuck off and die?It’s hard to look “like” something most people remember as a ghost, but I...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Claudia F. Savage
Claudia F. Savageis a member of the performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey and co-runs a parent-artist podcast of the same name. She has published three collections of poetry, most recently,...
View ArticleHE SPEAKS VOLUMES: A Biography of George Bowering, by Rebecca Wigod
When he began writing poems at nineteen, he soon found a voice and manner that appealed to publishers. It was the fifties. Poetry was becoming popular in North American, and a postwar vogue for “little...
View ArticleI was interviewed by Quail Bell magazine on curating the Tuesday poem series,
I was interviewed a few days ago by Christine Stoddard for Quail Bell magazine on the Tuesday poem series I curate over at the dusie blog. You can see the full interview here. Much thanks! And you can...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Natalie Morrill
Natalie Morrill's first novel, The Ghost Keeper (2018), was recognized with the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction and the HarperCollins Canada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. Her poetry and...
View ArticleMichael Nardone, The Ritualites
Away from a relative plane of table conversation, The last forks and spoons resume a familiarProgression, clattering the sink’s tin basin in time With Aunt Ange’s O! no! oblivion. Laugh...
View ArticleAli Znaidi reviews A perimeter (2016) in Empty Mirror
Poet and translator Ali Znaidi was good enough to provide a lengthy review of my poetry title, A perimeter (New Star Books, 2016), via Empty Mirror. Thanks so much! You can see the original review...
View ArticleSoham Patel, to afar from afar and ever really hear it
This is to inform you:Where you are going. To offspring your own placefor the compass needle to point—make your ownmagnetisms. Only movement generate equations.The push and the pull. You carry a...
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