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dusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is nearly seven years old, with nearly four hundred new poems published to date! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the online...
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happy birthday, kate!
My eldest child is twenty-nine years old today. How, exactly, did that happen?
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Oliver Baez Bendorf, Advantages of Being Evergreen
DEAR RANE ARROYOI thought I wanted to be everything all at once.Poet that sits on a bucket in the dunes and the bucket too. Blowjob too. Monster on my knees....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ruth Daniell
Ruth Daniell is an award-winning writer whose poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Grain, Room magazine, Qwerty, The Antigonish Review and Event. Her first full-length collection of poems, The...
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Jessica Drake-Thomas reviews A halt, which is empty
Jessica Drake-Thomas was good enough to provide a new review of my spring 2019 poetry title, A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press). Thanks so much! This is actually the third review of the book,...
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Anna Gurton-Wachter, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory
I am standing in the river and, absent any structural changes, I will still be standing in the river. Absent any structural changes, I am examining an inky pen I found in the river. This was how I...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Thurman, Knorr, Newman,...
Anticipating the release next week of the twenty-fourth 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...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Fiona Tinwei Lam
Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored two poetry books and a children’s book. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer and co-edited Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins,...
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Isabel Sobral Campos, your person doesn’t belong to you
Then wet fog under enforced skirts clings to the openpit between my legs Fog roams wetting my dried interior blowing up the skirt’sdimension into a single alien...
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Spotlight series #45 : Simina Banu
The forty-fifth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Montreal poet Simina Banu.The first eleven in...
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A ‘best of’ list of 2019 Canadian poetry books
[Rose and Aoife with their new bunk bed; and newly-painted bedroom!] Here I go again. And who am I to go against tradition? Once more, I offer my annual list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Douglas Walbourne-Gough
Douglas Walbourne-Gough (photo credit: Heather Nolan) is a poet and mixed/adopted Mi'kmaq from Corner Brook, Newfoundland. His poetry has appeared in journals and magazines across Canada and he’s...
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Rahlia’s Ghost Press: Rebecca Rustin, John Elizabeth Stintzi + Cara Nelissen
JAZZ HANDS AT DINNERFor Carson and Sartreshame is fleeting; a blinkthat can’t survive the lackof other people’s judgement.Isn’t being alone a shame?For Schopenhauer freedomcan only exist when...
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Brandon Krieg, Magnifier
The Lover in Winter PlainethMachines grind wind’s fangsto flour. Piles heapon the outskirts. I cannot seeto the edge. I creepagain to my niche. I sleep, fingers triggeredfrom touching the keys.Alders...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Hazel Jane Plante
Hazel Jane Planteis a queer trans librarian, cat photographer, and writer. In a previous life, she co-founded a micropress, co-edited a little literary journal, co-hosted a podcast, and released lo-fi...
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Jennifer Firestone, STORY
A beach at midday in a foreign land read as a good beginning. “What light shoots across the horizon.”The couple assumed their position as newly formed. “Chairs dig into wet...
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Teva Harrison, Not One of These Poems Is About You
Ode to the Pacific OceanTo stand at the edge of the seaWaves lapping hungrilyTo feel the sand shift beneath my feetCalled out to the wonder and the vastTo feel the salt drying on my anklesCrusting over...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carolyn Bennett
Writer and comedian Carolyn Bennett cut her teeth performing at Yuk Yuks and hasn't stopped bleeding since. Selected TV credits include This Hour Has 22 Minutes,CBC COMICS and Chilly Beach. Produced...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Jamie Townsend interviews Lindsey Boldt
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, as Jamie Townsend interviews Olympia, Washington poet Lindsey Boldt. Other interviews from my...
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye,...
Bob Kaufman is a poet; Bob Kaufman is a man steeped in a mythology sprinkled with a few facts. For many he exists as the man who wrote poems on newspaper margins, the man flowing with plied,...
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