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Canada Day in Sainte-Adèle
We’ve been at Christine’s mother’s cottage at Sainte-Adèle since Friday night, enjoying a longish and quiet weekend. Christine and I have been picking at our collaboration again, getting some good work...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessica Moore
Jessica Moore is an author and translator. Her first poetry collection, Everything, Now was published in August 2012 with Brick Books. She is a former Lannan writer-in-residence and winner of a 2008...
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fwd: Call for Papers: Affecting Women's Writing in Canada & Québec Today
November 15-17, 2013, Université de MontréalKeynote Speaker: Patricia T. Clough (CUNY, New York)Invited Speakers:· Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand (Ghent University, Belgium).· Belén Martín-Lucas (University...
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New American Writing: Canadian section
Ten Canadian Poets►◄edited by rob mclennan : Rob Budde: Stephen Cain: Margaret Christakos: Trisia Eddy: Jon Paul Fiorentino: Phil Hall: Marilyn Irwin: Meredith Quartermain: Nicole Markotić: Andy...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Molly Gaudry
Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart, which was shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil and named 2nd finalist for the 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. She...
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On writing (and not writing, : a triptych
I've three little (connected) essays, "On writing (and not writing)," now online, the first at Open Book: Ontario, the second, at the ottawa poetry newsletter as the third in the "On Writing" series,...
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Chus Pato, HoRDES OF WRitINg, trans. Erín Moure
To bring Chus Pato’s words into English, the translator must travel at breakneck speed, trying not to trip over tree roots and go flying. I still end up with skinned knees. Pato topples all lyric...
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the seventh issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics is...
seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics #7Victor Colemanfrom Miserable SingersJennifer K DickInvisible Collisions: Considering Susan Howe’s Reform of the Poetic, Critical and...
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Dennison Smith, Fermata
Story of the RavenThe moon was a crescent, her mouth was too. She smiled, put on the red lip, smelt like spice or was it snow? That perfect, or fully present, her cells had no description.Her face, a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mathais Svalina
Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito. He is part of Team Octopus. 1 - How did your first book change your life?My immediate impulse was to say...
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Ongoing notes: mid-July, 2013
You remember that the above/ground press twentieth anniversary is happening in August, right? Keep an eye on the above/ground press blog for details on the annual anniversary reading/launch. Recently,...
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a new poem, "Origin story:"
I've a new poem, "Origin story:," now online at The Wonder Book, thanks to Andrew Burke.
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Swamp Isthmus
from aluminum skyinto mere photographswhere one’s just dragged offout of their house& then this tiny towngets its quiet going againfirst dust scratchbefore a diamond needletricks into the...
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Aufgabe 12
What does it matter now? What matters now? What is the matter now? What is now’s matter? All possible transversions of Jean-Marc Desgent’s questioning title Qu’importe maintenant? The following work of...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Melanie Schnell
Melanie Schnellgrew up on a farm in southeastern Saskatchewan and has lived in Regina, Vancouver, Toronto, Boston, Colombia, Thailand, Kenya and Sudan. She spent the better part of one year living in...
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rob mclennan and Christine McNair co-feature at the In/Words Reading Series,...
We feature this month at Ottawa’s In/Words Reading Series, doing our second annual reading from our collaboration-in-progress (after last year’s event at The Dusty Owl Reading Series). We produced a...
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Robert Swereda, re: verbs
My short review of Robert Swereda's re: verbs (BareBackPress, 2013) is now online at Bywords.ca
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fwd: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS */EMBRASSER:/*/ An international journal of French...
*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS**/EMBRASSER:/*/An international journal of French and English Translation/will focus on literature from French-speaking diasporas, exploring the many regions and cultures in which...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mark Tardi
Mark Tardi is from Chicago. He is the author of the books Euclid Shudders and the newly released Airport music. He also has an essay in the recently released volume Theory That Matters: What Practice...
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Fiona Sze-Lorrain, My Funeral Gondola
Sixteen Lines, Autumn 2010In past autumns, I saw the world differently.Swans looked gracefulbecause their bodies were white.Crows were soothsayers—blackwings, black cries.In those autumns, death was a...
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