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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matthew Walsh
Matthew Walsh is a poet/writer from Nova Scotia. Recent work in The Malahat Review and new book with Icehouse Poetry: These are not the potatoes of my youth.1 - How did your first book or chapbook...
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Spotlight series #37 : Conyer Clayton
The thirty-seventh in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Ottawa poet Conyer Clayton.The first eleven...
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Magdalena Zurawski, The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
MOPEThis room hasonly the rhythm offlesh turned ontoo soon. Someone’slaughter sunsets behindfalse air andI come updrenched in reddots and ironfloes. Deep inmy nervous systema sky fillswith frosted...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dimitri Nasrallah
Dimitri Nasrallah is the author of three novels, most recently The Bleeds (Véhicule Press, 2018), which was named a best book of the year by La Presse and the Montreal Gazette. He was born in Lebanon...
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Eleni Sikelianos, What I Knew
In this house, everything is said.The plastic animals are arranged in conference on the wooden stool near the toilet seat.They have been curated to speak.Speak.The latest from Providence, Rhode Island...
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Jason Christie, Cursed Objects
platitudes and now, as if to sayI’m hiding inside my body,a device rises, or the poemappears on a blue screen; apiece of the poem lodges itselfin my mind and I find the words:a rectangle around me or...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Becky Mandelbaum
Becky Mandelbaum is the author of Bad Kansas, which received the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award and the 2018 High Plains Book Award. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review,...
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Fatimah Asghar, If They Come For Us
PartitionUllu partitions the apartment in two—a thin blue wall cutting the deserted hall.Toys & books on our side,refrigerator, sink & TV with our Auntie A.She sends us rations throughout the...
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father update:
I recently spent a second fortnightly (on average) weekend on the homestead, for the sake of caring for my father, who was diagnosed with ALS back in February. The only way he can remain home is with...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Terese Svoboda
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of seven books of fiction, seven books of poetry, a prize-winning memoir, a book of translation from the Nuer, and a biography of the radical poet Lola...
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Susan Tichy, The Avalanche Path in Summer
AT THE MOUNTAIN WHERE HE FELLAs a rock balanced on pillar of iceAs pebbles dislodged in a single stepAnd much to learnof walk-road mouth-sound deer-dust siltbone-blade as the rootof...
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Andrea Rexilius, Sister Urn
It is the season of warmth, colorful lights line the houses. Words hearth and mirth arise. But now a weight grows heavily on our chest, like pneumonia.Lungs unraveling. Therefore language unraveling. I...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Anahita Jamali Rad and David Bradford...
House House Press is a Montreal-based publisher of poetry chapbooks, pamphlets and ephemera operating outside of the prevailing lyrical and experimental aesthetics.Anahita Jamali Rad was born in Iran...
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Lyn Hejinian, Tribunal
A work of art is a prophetic loan, drawn on fugitive premises; the artist acts on it, and, presumably, sustains some faith that others will do so too, or at least could. For the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London, England to an English mother and a Jamaican father. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Complete Works III, and Jerwood Compton Poetry. He...
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Ongoing notes: dusie kollektiv 9: Bronwen Tate + Elisabeth Workman
A couple of months ago, Dusie-maven Susana Gardner solicited a number of poets for the ninth Dusie Kollektiv, soliciting poets to produce chapbooks in homage to the late Marthe Reed [see my obituary...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sarah Tolmie
Sarah Tolmie is an associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo. Her poetry collection, Trio, was shortlisted for the 2016 Pat Lowther Award. She is a medievalist trained at the...
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Ben Ladouceur, Mad Long Emotion
THE UNTROUBLED MINDbefore I came here I lived in the groundtherein I read the story of the artist on the mesaher suffering formed a bloom she slid her tongue intoso faint her pencil work we could not...
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Shane McCrae, Forgiveness
1. The SubjectLittle Brown Koko goes by Kokoin the book as I remember itAlthough he is / Little and black although he isSubject to the bookin the book as I remember it / Nobody calls him Little...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Daniel Borzutzky
Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator, and the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten...
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