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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Caroline Knox
Caroline Knox's [photo credit: Juliana Knox] tenth book of poetry, Hear Trains, has just appeared from Wave Books in Seattle. Her previous books are The House Party (1984) and To Newfoundland (1989),...
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Nelson Ball (1942-August 16, 2019)
Sad news from Stuart Ross: that Paris, Ontario poet, editor and former publisher and bookseller Nelson Ball died yesterday afternoon in Brantford after an extended illness. In my review of his Chewing...
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Domenica Martinello, All Day I Dream About Sirens
My wee review of Domenica Martinello's full-length poetry debut, All Day I Dream About Sirens(Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2019) is now online at Bywords.ca
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Chris Banks, Midlife Action Figure
New WorldA ship arrives in the middle of a downtown cityintersection. Although there is no port, peopledepart the wooden ship with family belongingsstuffed into suitcases, saying, “So this is the...
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Jacqueline Turner, Flourish
What’s the matter with youI remember my back pressed hot into the sandbar one second before my brothers pour water from red buckets onto my tanned belly and I jump up screaming. Exactly one second...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emily Davidson
Emily Davidsonis a writer from Saint John, New Brunswick, living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her poetry has appeared in publications includingArc, CV2, The Fiddlehead,Poetry is...
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Cassie Donish, The Year of the Femme
This seems to be the patternGoing outside is part of the pattern tooEach day there are fewer leaves on the treesEach day there are more leaves in the streetTime is a puzzle with interlocking...
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Vancouver Poet Rita Wong Incarcerated for 4 Weeks for Peaceful Anti-pipeline Protest1.A handwritten appeal: one shows respectby speaking honestly. The landscapeis losing patience. My faitherodes. Your...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Samantha Giles
Samantha Giles is the author of Total Recall(Krupskaya, 2019), winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal of Poetry. Previous work includes hurdis addo(Displaced Press, 2011) anddeadfalls and...
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Eric Sneathen, Snail Poems
say rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same metersay fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically ten syllables per linesay a...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Michelle D'costa interviews Sivakami Velliangiri
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, as Michelle D'costa interviews Sivakami Velliangiri. Other interviews from my tenure include: an...
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Jonathan Ball, The National Gallery
F.H. VarleyThe dead hold our hands like small childrenTired out and wanting a quiet walkBut we pay money to hear what they singWe don’t care that they hate their own songsWe don’t care that their...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stuart M. Ross
Stuart Ross is the author of Jenny in Corona, available for pre-order from Tortoise Books. His work has appeared in Diagram, Eclectica, HTML Giant, pioneertown., The Awl, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and other...
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Ongoing notes: late August, 2019
Where has it all gone? I feel like summer barely began.Here's what the young ladies looked like a week-plus ago, with Clare Latremouille's horses. Northampton MA:Zoe Tuck was good enough to send along...
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mai c. doan, water/tongue
if i speak if i articulate this new American body into new American parts if i articulate if i name if i name myself using correct American words if i articulate this non-American this non-American...
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queen mob's teahouse : Jeremy Stewart interviews Nikki Reimer
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, as Jeremy Stewart interviews Calgary poet Nikki Reimer. Other interviews from my tenure include:...
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new from above/ground press: Sikkema, Boyle, Clayton, Johnson, Norris, Irwin,...
Short CloudNatalie Lyalin$5See link here for more informationInvermere GridsZane Koss$5See link here for more informationThe President of the United StatesMichael Dennis$5See link here for more...
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K.B. Thors, Vulgar Mechanics
TO JUPITER AND HIS ORANGE EYECraning my neck from your porch swingI watch the morning glory close her saloon,right on cue. Would that we were all so consistent,that we had proper time and place....
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On Writing : an occasional series
If you can imagine it, we're seven years and more than one hundred and fifty essays into the occasional series of "On Writing" essays I've been curating over at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog. I've...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mugabi Byenkya
Mugabi Byenkya is a writer, poet and occasional rapper. He was born in Nigeria, to Ugandan parents and is currently based between Kampala and Toronto.Mugabi was longlisted for the Babishai Niwe Poetry...
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