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Ken Belford (1946 – February 19, 2020)
Sad to hear, via Rob Budde’s facebook page yesterday, that Prince George, British Columbia poet Ken Belford has died, after an extended battle with cancer. Some would suggest that Ken wasn’t a prolific...
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Biswamit Dwibedy, Hubble Gardener
OPERETTAHere buried an operettaas our being togetherbrought out by chanceOn a complicated dawnchromatic values that entera room that is like a dreamThe first recognizable patternswere...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Adèle Barclay
Adèle Barclay’swriting has appeared in Vallum, The Heavy Feather Review, glitterMOB, The Pinch, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Puritan, PRISM international, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit...
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Hostbox (1992-5): bibliography, and an interview
this interview was conducted occasionally over email, from November 2015 to March 2020, as part of a project to document Ottawa literary publishing. see my bibliography-in-progress of Ottawa literary...
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Anna Vitale, Detroit Detroit
There was a Detroit, New York. I asked a girl named Anita where she was from and she said Detroit, New York. I told her I was Anita from Detroit, Detroit. I had been wandering around, getting ready to...
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Buck Downs, OPEN CONTAINER
thrive all nightfunny dealing in the acea forward drift from stable to stableI tapped out a mind mapof my career in a history of old phone numbersfailed educator entertainerfailed...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anita Kushwaha
Anita Kushwaha grew up in Aylmer, Quebec. Her road to publication included a fulfilling career in academia, where she studied human geography at Carleton University and earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. She...
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Spotlight series #47 : MLA Chernoff
The forty-seventh in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Toronto poet MLA Chernoff.The first eleven in...
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announcing: periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
announcing: periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics edited and lovingly maintained by rob mclennanperiodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics was founded in March 2020 by rob mclennan as a...
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kathryn l. pringle, Obscenity for the Advancement of Poetry
during this time, i have learned the ceiling is discoloredbirds are raucous morning creaturesthe neighbors like to yell FUCK more than they actually fucksomewhere nearby there is a screeching monkeyout...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with April Ford
April Ford’sfiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in print and online journals in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Germany, and Scotland. She’s the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for her short story...
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Sadiqa de Meijer, The Outer Wards
Spoon, spoonI, too, have a small versionI had one madein the meticulous workshopunder my navelThey started with a fish,then frog, then rabbitand I asked them to stop at human (“On Origins”)I was...
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TODAY IS MY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY
Four poems for my fiftieth birthday1.In the details, bedeviled. Am I half-way finished, or begun? Too soon, by half. A ladybird, floats. My bare hand. Homestead,sunsets. If I did complain. Characters...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brandon Krieg
Brandon Krieg is the author of Magnifier (Center for Literary Publishing, 2019), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry chosen by Kazim Ali, In the Gorge (Codhill Press, 2017), Invasives (New Rivers...
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Emily Brandt, False Hood
I stuffed my bra with socksI say I want to be herbut I knowI want to touch her.I make myselfa mannequin.The bee’s stinger weavesthrough blonde hair, traces map lines:the way to the trail in the woods...
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Matt Morton, Improvisation Without Accompaniment
Improvisation Without AccompanimentIn the field, the tractor spins its giant wheels.How fierce defiance is, or seems. Mechanicalin a sense: our pistons firing to set aflamesome teepee of longed-for...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Christine Larusso
Christine Larusso’spoetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Wildness, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Women's Studies Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Prelude, Court Green, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is...
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Paul Legault, The Tower
How will I do being old when I’m old – having to use this same heart in its place.Tell all my cells to be made of me younger,Madonna. I won’t budge until time makes me do it. God likes...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Nicole Haldoupis and Geoff Pevlin on...
Applebeard Editions is a small, independent Canadian publisher specializing in flash fiction/nonfiction and prose poetry. It was formed by Nicole Haldoupis and Geoff Pevlin in late 2017. Since then,...
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radical paper press: ryan eckes + Joseph Rathgeber
wet moneyto be rehired every other breathas if you were never therenothing ever happenedyou never worked herewe never knew each otherthe waves crash the shoreyou were never here (ryan eckes)I recently...
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