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Adam Sol, How A Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
Here’s something that makes me crazy: I know dozens of readers – smart, informed, enthusiastic readers of fiction and non-fiction of all kinds – who are afraid of poetry. Who fear they “don’t get it.”...
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The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry, ed. Jim Johnstone
While I'm not entirely convinced by the title of this review, my review of The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books, 2018), edited by Jim...
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Stefania Heim, Hour Book
BUT, SHOULD I NOTE SOMEHOW when the day begins? Time is significant only in relationship to time. When we are awake in the night I want to speak of it. Sleepless gloss. Relate to me as x-2. You, y....
View ArticleAaron Vidaver, Counter-Interpellation: Volume One
MEMORANDUMDEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFAREFIELD SERVICE257 Station Street,Duncan, B.C.TO Adoption Placement Section, Child Welfare Division, Department of Social Welfare,...
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Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
VERSO 10.4One could not easily separate oneself from the “we” constructed and being constructed by the spectacle and its narrations or reiterations. And perhaps one ought not to be able to so clearly...
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MC Hyland, The End
THE ENDSome things I think of as outside and inside that might be only ambient. Open an aperture onto the morning. Tinny feeling all under your skin. Autoeroticism as autodidactics. Infant-size...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kirby
Kirby’s[photo credit: Khashayar Mohammadi] earlier chapbooks include Simple Enough, Cock & Soul, Bob’s boy, The world is fucked and sometimes beautiful, and most recently, SHE'S HAVING A DORIS DAY...
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my (small press) writing day : new essays + ongoing submission call,
So, I had been curious for some time about The Guardian’s occasional feature “My Writing Day,” and thought it would be interesting to do a blog of the same, “for those of us who might never make it...
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Stephanie Strickland, How the Universe is Made: Poems New & Selected 1985-2019
REAL LIFE IS WHITE IN CONNECTICUTpale greenand white in Connecticut trees elms The Commonsthe sky the mind in Connecticut calcite barof burning crystal prism on the silliris in the gardencharts and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Terry Doyle
Terry Doyle is from the Goulds, Newfoundland. In 2017 he won the Percy Janes First Novel Award and was a finalist for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award. His work has appeared in Riddle Fence, untethered,...
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Jan-Henry Gray, DOCUMENTS
Maid Poem #1: The HousemaidIn the center of the concrete room there is a pink plastic water basin, wobbly, full, and brimming. On its side is a faded sticker of a smiling elephant with a fat ribbon...
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Matthew Gwathmey, Our Latest in Folktales
Second AnniversaryOn the outskirts, at the end of a one-way street,a blind fiddler recreates our stroll down the aisle.Two flower girls dance together—twirling redheadssecured by translucent strings,...
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Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf, selected with an introduction by...
Trapped in this high-performance culture, let’s suspend,all disbelief, ignore the elephants in the room.I won’t remember that avant-garde chaos frees the writingmachine’s choked circuits.Our...
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Spotlight series #38 : Megan Kaminski
The thirty-eighth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Lawrence, Kansas poet Megan Kaminski [photo...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anthony Ferner
Anthony Ferner is the author of three short novels: Winegarden(Holland Park Press 2015), Inside the Bone Box(Fairlight Books 2018), and Life in Translation (Holland Park Press 2019). He is a member of...
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Ongoing notes: early June, 2019: THIRTEEN, ed. Ali Blythe + Marty Cain
Are you coming by to the ottawa small press fair on June 22nd? And/or the pre-fair reading the night prior? I mean: we’ve only been doing this twice a year since 1994. Why haven’t you made your way...
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Anna Gurton-Wachter, Spring Bomb
part of me issayingI’ve got thisurban anxietyfetish I’m justsaying itwas agonizing sexalso invisibleI dragged myselfto paintwalls as riotantagonistsone word moremove on outor elseshort livedI’ve got...
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The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 21: Kirby,...
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:The Factory Reading Seriespre-small press book fair readingfeaturing readings by:Kirby (Toronto ON)Julie de Belle (QC)Matthew Walsh (Toronto...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stuart Buck
Stuart Buck is a poet and artist living in North Wales. His debut collection of poetry, Casually Discussing the Infinite, peaked at 89 on Amazons World Poetry chart and his second book Become Something...
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Jerika Marchan, SWOLE
[ Keep it clean ]Lake is big and the light on the water makes a shimmery dress on it – Give me a day all sunsents with the wide colors riding up its back, flooding the sky. Wander these streets when...
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