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rob reads soon in Vancouver (w Christine McNair) + in Ottawa; and a new...
rob has a new chapbook with Anstruther Press!Anstruther, a historyyou can easily order a copy from the press, or send me $10 (plus $2 for Canadian shipping, or $3 for US shipping) and I will totally...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Kloepfer
David Kloepfer lives in Burnaby, B.C. His first novel Cheap Thrills(Vancouver: Now or Never Publishing, 2019) was released on October 15th. He is at work on a second, third, and fourth novel.1 - How...
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Ongoing notes: late January, 2020: Machado, Tyc
Don’t forget that the spring edition of the ottawa small press book fair has been scheduled for June 27th! The best of the small press in Ottawa, twice a year since 1994!Charlottesville VA:Aditi...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Martin Corless-Smith
Martin Corless-Smith was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. He studied as a painter and a poet. His books include Odious Horizons: Some Versions of Horace(Miami University Press, 2019), The...
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Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader, edited by Jamie Townsend
You might suppose this page is the beginning of my novel. Why? Because it’s the first page. On this page a writer is supposed to tell you what he’s about (or what you’re about) so you’ll know if you...
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Dorothea Lasky, Animal
In this brief compendium of four lectures, I will talk about poetry and its relationship to ghosts, colors, animals, and bees. In each of these discussions, I will be thinking of poetry at...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Janet Sutherland
Janet Sutherland was born in Wiltshire and grew up on a dairy farm, she is the author of four poetry collections all from Shearsman Books: Home Farm (2019), Bone Monkey (2014), Hangman’s Acre (2009)...
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Writing is Hard : rob mclennan (interview re-post from 2016,
I wanted to re-post this interview I did back in 2016, originally conduced by the delightful and brilliant Toronto poet and editor Sachiko Murakami for her “Writing is Hard” project. The series was...
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Kelly Grace Thomas, Boat Burned
Bay Area, California poet Kelly Grace Thomas’ full-length poetry debut is Boat Burned (Portland OR: YesYes Books, 2020) a collection of lyric, first-person poems that play off, from the offset, a quote...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Margaret Ronda
Margaret Ronda is the author of two books of poetry,Personification (Saturnalia Books, 2010) and For Hunger (Saturnalia, 2018), and a critical study, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's End...
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On Writing : an occasional series
If you can imagine it, we're nearly 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...
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Rachel Zucker, SoundMachine
This is art not a court document, someone reminds me.Poems are the agency of desire in a world of diverse subjectivities, Laurel says.Put this in a drawer for at least three months and don’t look at it...
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Samuel Ace, Our Weather Our Sea
I met a man who was a woman who was a man who was a woman who was a man who met a woman who met her genes who tic’d the toe who was a man who x’d the x and xx’d the y I met a friend who preferred to pi...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Adnan Khan
Adnan Khan [photo credit: Magida El-Kassis] has written for VICE, the Globe and Mail, and Hazlitt. He has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and in 2016 won the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer...
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new from above/ground press: Dean, Baus, McCulloch, Tracy, Touch the Donkey...
The Desert of ItabiraLeesa Dean$5See link here for more informationEuphorbiaEric Baus$5See link here for more informationCertain HumansIan McCulloch$5See link here for more informationThe Mystery of...
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Gwen Benaway, day/break
I inscribe my gender like a bruise on the perfect smooth flesh of your bright morning the dawn (and I) begin as colour across the horizon, granulated...
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#strikedays
For those unaware, this past Wednesday and Thursday were strike days for Ontario teachers, given the provincial government is attempting, yet again, to cut and cut and cut and cut (we support the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessica Q. Stark
Jessica Q. Stark is a mixed-race, Vietnamese poet originally from California. She is a doctoral candidate in English at Duke University where she writes on the intersections of American poetry and...
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Spotlight series #46 : J.R. Carpenter
The forty-sixth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Canadian-born UK-based artist, writer, and...
View ArticleFive poems for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
1An almost, circumstance. Sustainedby intensive care unit, my father’swithered muscles. First the right hand, legs, the lungs;a machine to administer breath. On Carling Avenue,flush in fluorescent...
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