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Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
CANADIAN SONNETHistory is a song, a cruel anthemmy nameless lovers mouth all the words of.Confession: I rarely survive the nightin the biome of a man’s longing. Whathas been lost doesn’t ask to be...
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Forty Proper Tales : celebrating 40 years of Stuart Ross' Proper Tales Press
In case you haven’t seen, I’ve been curating the Forty Proper Tales blog, posting essays celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Stuart Ross’ Proper Tales Press, founded way back in 1979! So far, the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sam V.H. Reese
Hailing from Aotearoa, Sam V.H. Reese is an insatiable traveller and self-confessed short story nerd. An award winning critic and story writer, his first collection of stories, Come the Tide, was...
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Monica Fambrough, Softcover
ManifestoLet me be clear. On a Clear Day You Can See Foreveris the name of a 1970 musical starring BarbraStreisand. What could be simpler or more infinite?A clear object may alter or nourish but it may...
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Spotlight series #41 : Amanda Deutch
The forty-first in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring New York City poet Amanda Deutch.The first...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joseph Rathgeber
Joseph Rathgeber [photo credit: Ananda Lim] is an author, poet, high school English teacher, and adjunct professor from New Jersey. His story collection is The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and...
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Marita Dachsel, There Are Not Enough Sad Songs
springEach year, too earlythe instinct to burrowhands in the soil.Cold cramps joints,Freezes movement.Persist, this benediction.Like all things miraculous,it is the most banal of actions:slipping seeds...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Robert Frede Kenter
Robert Frede Kenter is a writer and visual artist. His poetry has been published widely including ARC, New Quarterly, Grain, Prairie Fire, Paragraph, Going Down Swinging (Melbourne), Burning House...
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Maxine Chernoff, Under the Music: Collected Prose Poems
What, then, are we holding when we pick up a collection of Maxine Chernoff’s achievements in the prose poem form? If not a collection of fables, or a collection of first-person lyrics...
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Jill Magi, SPEECH
Is this version of cityto cross your outposta light blue gauzea desert skina thick grey foga south side a redline is your outpost thiscomfort versionyour heart tentyour lopsided outposta...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bola Opaleke
Bola Opaleke is a Nigerian-Canadian poet. His first poetry collection was published in 2012. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, Bola's poetry has appeared in many international publications, both in print and...
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Renee Angle, WoO
Their division into tribes. Their worship of Jehovah. Their notion of a theocracy. Their belief in the ministration of angels. Their language and dialects. Their manner of counting time. Their prophets...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Scott Nolan
Scott Nolan [photo credit: Mike Latschislaw] is a songwriter, poet, multi instrumentalist from Winnipeg, Manitoba Treaty One Territory. His songs have been recorded by Hayes Carll, Mary Gauthier,...
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Vincent Pagé, This Is the Emergency Present
XXTonight for examplethe verse revolvesin blueShivers kind ofTo have lost my voiceand loved herwithout starsI have her in my armsbut do not have herThis nearer distanceI writethis the lastendless verse...
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Sonnet L’Abbé, Sonnet’s Shakespeare
XXVIIWhen I arm myself with rationality, realism chastens me into myth. Disabused by the raced men arrested post-race, full-on reality numbs. White knights brave a world that I read about; they snob at...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mark Laba
Mark Laba is an artist and writer living in Vancouver. He was once a restaurant reviewer for a daily newspaper. He’s also painted anatomical models and faux-finished artist wall tiles, been a darkroom...
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A CEMETERY FOR HOLES, poems by Tom Prime and Gary Barwin
YVRI move to the Vancouver airport.the plane is always one hour and forty-nine minutes late.that hour and forty-nine minutesbecause a room I buildout of a billion toothpicks.the world changes with the...
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P – Q U E U E #16 : R U I N
There isspace arounda heart. Sharpfrequency. Current,thread. A smoothstonepocket.two stones. No pocketsoundon this side ofthe eventno one couldsay whattouch what soundhappenednever the word...
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Marion Bell, austerity
OH DON’Tdon’t valorizeoh don’tvalorizestrengthwhich hasn’tactuallybrought youhereOne of the more impressive collections I’ve seen lately is Philadelphia poet,social work student and mental health...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cassie Donish
Cassie Donish is a queer Jewish poet and writer, author of the full-length poetry collections The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the Iowa...
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