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fwd: Purdy Picnic--and special offer for Purdy fans and collectors
From Jean Baird, and The Al Purdy A-Frame Association:Two short items.1. Reminder: Saturday July 27 is the First Annual Al Purdy Picnic at the A-frame.2. Eurithe Purdy has decided to live permanently...
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above/ground press at twenty; new titles by Waldrop, McNair + mclennan, and...
OTHERWISE SMOOTHRosmarie Waldrop$4See link here for more informationThe Laurentian Book of MovementChristine McNair and rob mclennan$3See link here for more informationdamascene road passaggio,...
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Elizabeth Robinson, blue heron
A bone cannot tell a bone’s story nor a cavea cave’sthis trinket of life ofhaving lived spinningon the unsanctioned airovercome with its whiteness (“hibernaculum”)American poet...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nancy Jo Cullen
Nancy Jo Cullen is the 4th recipient of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Grant for Emerging Gay Writer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph Humber. Her fiction has...
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On Writing : an occasional series
Back in April, I happened to catch (thanks to Sarah Mangold) the website for the NPM Daily, and absolutely loved the short essays presented on a variety of subjects surrounding the nebulous idea of “on...
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Paul Legault, The Other Poems
NEW ENGLAND IS OLDAfter the first first late antiquity,things are a little –ish.THE BREAKERS: They are not soldiers.THE SOLDIERS: You see I cannot see.EMILY: They were a part of it.THE SOLDIERS: They...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor is the author of the story collection Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, and the novel The Gospel of Anarchy. His next collection, Flings, will be published in the summer of 2014. He...
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"An informal talk on compiling McLennan/MacLennan genealogies in Stormont and...
Given that I've been working on a genealogy of the McLennan, MacLennan and McLellan lines throughout Stormont and Glengarry Counties for the past twenty years, I've been invited to do "An informal talk...
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Juliet Patterson, The Truant Lover
NOTEIn the original, the sex of the person at the next table is ambiguous.The anonymousspeaker is not an imaginarycharacter.The first versionwas writtenwith the title,“Love It More.”Loosely rhymed.The...
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a new poem, "If this is: an experiment in living," up at Jam Jar Words
I've a new poem, "If this is: an experiment in living," now online at the Ottawa literary website Jam Jar Words.
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Edmund Berrigan, Can It!
[…] It brought to mind some lines I had found meaningful when I was in school from my dad’s cut-up cowboy novel Clear the Range: Suppose then, he had been a quarter of an inch...
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from Hark, a journal: 1864-1967 : poem and an essay,
from Hark, a journal: 1864-1967for Christine,The world, with all its events, erects itself between the subjectivity and the objectivity of language. Joë Bousquet, Crosscut Universe: Writing on...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Julien Poirier
Julien Poirier (1970- ) lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and daughters. His most recent book is Stained Glass Windows of California on Ugly Duckling Presse.1 - How did your first book or chapbook...
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Carrie Olivia Adams, Forty-One Jane Doe’s
I don’t know what to say about him.He is no longer a phantasm,But not yet a sign.The seagulls have taken residencein the grocery parking lot.Their squawks and squealseach morning circling the block.He...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Nikolai Duffy on Like This Press
Like This Press is an independent small press committed to publishing high quality and beautifully designed books that do things just a little bit differently. The press is particularly interested in...
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new from APT. 9 PRESS; I simply began: above/ground press at 20 [an interview...
above/ground press author (and friend of the press) Cameron Anstee spent a few weeks working on an interview with me for the upcoming above/ground press 20th anniversary, now available (for pre-order)...
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Lee Ann Brown, In The Laurels, Caught
SARVISI’ve seen the Sarvis bloomdiaphanous white from far offwhile the mountainsideis still brownIt’s almost Japanesethough I’ve yet to seewhite on whiteblooms over snow A kind of canny lullabyA...
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An informal talk on compiling McLennan/MacLennan genealogies in Stormont and...
Note: this is the talk I gave on August 3, 2013 at the Clan MacLennan tent at this year's Glengarry Highland Games. Since the Clan MacLennan was the featured clan at this year's event, I was invited to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Geoffrey Nutter
Originally from California. Has lived in New York City for many years. Books of poems are A Summer Evening, Water's Leaves & Other Poems, Christopher Sunset and most recently The Rose of January,...
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Elizabeth Robinson, On Ghosts
PHOTOGRAPH #1This is a photograph of a domestic interior. Because this ghost manifested primarily in an auditory manner, it is hard to see anything of significance in this photo. Note however the...
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