12 or 20 (small press) questions with Alice Ladrick and Jonny Lohr on Adjunct...
Adjunct Press is a chapbook press from Milwaukee. We make hand-stitched books and use all proceeds toward making future books.Alice Ladrickis the author of Don’t Read This If You Already Want To Die....
View Articlelaunching my new poetry book at Mansfield launches in Montreal + Toronto!...
I can't even remember the last time I launched a book in Montreal or Toronto, so I'm excited to be part of these two spring launches for Mansfield Press, launching a plethora of new spring titles,...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ben Berman Ghan
Ben Berman Ghan is an author and editor from Toronto, and an incoming student of Ryerson University's MA in English Literatures of Modernity, having recently finished an HBA from The University of...
View ArticleTouch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Cavuto, Sikkema, Tate,...
Anticipating the release next week of the twenty-second issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with contributors...
View ArticleOngoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part two,
[Zed Press]See the first of my notes from our most recent fair here.Windsor/Toronto ON: The second chapbook by Toronto poet and self-professed “peach enthusiast” Terrence Abrahams is the peach poems...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Guy Birchard
Guy Birchard: I am by birth a deracinated Canadian: Don't panic, stalwart sons—no fault of mother's, no foul of father's—don't jump to conclusions, gentle maidens. Unfortunately for her aspirations for...
View ArticleSusan Lewis, ZOOM
All Signspointed to the same confusion. On the second Monday the third person persevered. Tiny toes like exclamation points, daffodils, or doubts. While the mistress of ceremonies sobbed off the...
View ArticleOngoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three,
[Marilyn Irwin's shreeking violet press]See the first of my notes from our most recent fair here and the second of my notes from our most recent fair here.Windsor/Toronto ON: I’m very taken—charmed,...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Pamela Hart
PAMELA HART is author of the award-winning collection, MOTHERS OVER NANGARHAR, published by Sarabande Books. She is writer-in-residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she manages and teaches an...
View ArticleOngoing notes: dusie kollektiv 9: gillian parrish + Carrie Hunter
Further to the latest iteration of the dusie kollektiv [see my prior notes on chapbooks by Bronwen Tate and Elisabeth Workman from the same kollektiv here; on C.S. Carrier and Adra Raine here; see the...
View ArticleSpotlight series #39 : Frances Boyle
The thirty-ninth 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 and fiction writer Frances Boyle...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Groulx
David Groulx lives in Vanier, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in over 160 publications in 16 countries. He is the author of numerous books of poetry including From Turtle Island to Gaza(Athabasca...
View ArticleCaroline Knox, HEAR TRAINS
HEAR TRAINSSo saultmeans “jump,” as insauter in France, but notin New France! In Old Francethe Idropped out. In New,they kept it: Sault Ste. Marie,the leap, the rapids. Butin a linguistic roux,...
View Articlerob mclennan round-up: some poems, two interviews, etcetera
I feel as though I keep forgetting to mention things such as these, but I do have some poems from "the book of smaller" up in the twelfth issue of where is the river, as well as new poems up at...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Fred Schmalz
Fred Schmalz is the author of Action in the Orchards (Nightboat Books, 2019). He is an artist and poet whose recent writing focuses on textual response to encounters with dance, music, and visual art....
View ArticleLisa Samuels, Foreign Native
A bird in a planeSitting on a park bench is a form of publishingrather than an endless set of bills resemblinghuman emotions as like a totally real eventin tangible vials of Significance and maybe,...
View ArticleStuart Ross, Motel of the Opposable Thumbs
EFFORTSI used the biggest words I could think of and spoke with an exaggerated Finnish accent. I cooked only foods requiring the most foul-smelling spices and watched only movies based on funeral...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jennifer Wortman
Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love (Split Lip Press, 2019). Her fiction, essays, and poetry appear in Glimmer Train, Normal School, Electric...
View ArticleOngoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part four,
[knife│fork│book’sinfamous and brilliant Kirby]See the first of my notes from our most recent fair here and the second of my notes from our most recent fair here and the third of my notes from our most...
View ArticleVanessa Couto Johnson, pungent dins concentric
sp(ice)Peppers, you claim, are delighted, burning. My check engine light comes on, sudden yellow.You reject turmeric, saying it is bitter. But my favorite color.I keep driving. Cinnamon is meant to be...
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