12 or 20 (second series) questions with Caleb Michael Sarvis
Caleb Michael Sarvis is a writer from Jacksonville, Florida. He is the author of Dead Aquarium(Mastodon Publishing 2019), the managing editor for Bridge Eight Press, and co-host of the Drunken Book...
View ArticleKaren Solie, The Caiplie Caves
NO 59981 05825; 56.24324° N, 2.64731° WLandward, the cave mouth conspicuously dark.Halfway between Anstruther and Crail,singular in the vicinity. Prominentcalcareous sandstone outcrop on a raised...
View ArticleFred Schmalz, Action in the Orchards
AFTER ETEL ADNANI would like to wanderamid the heavens’ explosionsa mountainous country’snomadic art immaterialif learned by heartyou move all the timetaking nothing with youto meet the poetsfrom...
View Articlerob's Patreon page : offering my Gaspereau Press chapbook as a special...
I thought that it would be fun to help celebrate National Poetry Month [see the Chaudiere Books blog for daily poems throughout April], with a special offer: anyone who signs up to support my Patreon...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with J.G. McClure
J.G. McClure holds an MFA from the University of California – Irvine. His poems and prose appear widely, including in Best New Poets, Gettysburg Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review. A three-time...
View ArticleChad Sweeney, LITTLE MILLION DOORS: AN ELEGY
And the road was allOf bonesAnd all and only I Was on itWalking to where at noon foreverA voiceFar and thinlyFilling upThe canyons the boxesOf its meaningsI say wasWhat I mean isWill beSouthern...
View ArticleQueen Mob's Teahouse: Vannessa Barnier interviews Zalika Reid-Benta
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, asVannessa Barnier interviews short story author Zalika Reid-Benta. Other interviews from my...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Philip Brady
Philip Brady’swww.philipbrady.com most recent release is Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City His book-length poem, To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet, appeared...
View ArticleOngoing notes: early April 2019 : Katharina Schultens + kevin mcpherson eckhoff,
[Aoife, moving through books at Black Squirrel]April is Poetry Month! You remembered that, right? And the Chaudiere Books blog has been posting new poems every single dayso far!Manahil Bandukwala, Joe...
View Article12 or 20 (small press) questions with Mia Morgan and Stephanie Meloche on...
Mia Morgan is the former editor of the Ottawa Arts Review, and former host of the Blue Mondays reading series. Her long poem, Suburbia, was published as a tiny book in 2014 by In/Words press. Her other...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Heidi Seaborn
Heidi Seaborn is the author the award-winning debut book of poetryGive a Girl Chaos {see what she can do}(C&R Press/Mastodon Books, March 2019), Editorial Director for The Adroit Journal and a New...
View ArticleSpotlight series #36 : Franco Cortese
The thirty-sixth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Thorold, Ontario poet Franco Cortese.The first...
View ArticleTouch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Strauss, Lederer, Hubbard,...
Anticipating the release next week of the twenty-first [FIFTH ANNIVERSARY] issue of Touch the Donkey (a small poetry journal), why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few...
View ArticleWanda John-Kehewin, Seven Sacred Truths
Colonization Teaches Hate.I hated myself because of it, it mystifies me, lies to me, confuses me, and always brings me to my knees; it tears me to little pieces that scatter in the lone wind, landing...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Daniel Cowper
Daniel Cowper is a poet and writer from Bowen Island, BC. His first chapbook, The God of Doors, was published in 2017 as co-winner of Frog Hollow Press’ chapbook contest. His first full-length book of...
View ArticleCharles Jensen, NANOPEDIA
DOMESTIC TERRORISMThe night moon clicks on outside my window. Vertical blinds like traitors hang and twist backlit in the glow. What is there outside that I have left to know? The night’s black mask...
View ArticleOngoing notes: mid-April, 2019 : Pearl Pirie + ryan eckes,
Don’t forget about the Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] fifth anniversary sale, yes? I’m including the past year-plus of above/ground press backlist, as well as all the Touch the Donkey back...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Charles Jensen
Charles Jensen is the author of six chapbooks of poems, including the recent Story Problems and Breakup/Breakdown, and The First Risk, which was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. A second...
View Articletoday is Aoife's third birthday,
How did we get here? Three full years since she made Rose a big sister, after a far-too-quick birth. Our quiet, sly, odd little person, who seems to know herself quite well (neither of our young ladies...
View Articlea new chapbook + new interview,
So then: I was interviewed recently for talking about strawberries all of the time, in which I discuss some of my short fiction (some of which they also published last fall), and produced a chapbook...
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