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Laiwan, Tender

            Read as a retrospective and as a continued call for a passionate caring for one another, TENDER offers us freedom in the face of limitation: a working at setting free. Each section of this...

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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Sara Youngblood Gregory interviews Christine Larusso

As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, asSara Youngblood Gregory interviews Christine Larusso. Other interviews from my tenure include:...

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the virtual reading series : periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics,

even though the first content for the site had been scheduled to appear up on the new poetics journal, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics on April 1st, i thought it would be interesting to...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Janick Belleau

Janick Belleau: born and raised in Montréal. Lived in Ottawa and in Winnipeg before returning to her beloved city... with the love of her life. To learn about her tanka (Canada-Japan Literary Award...

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Four poems for Frank O’Hara’s birthday

1.Cold, dishwater wind. The snow is not alive,but sleeps. A blade of grass.Happy birthday. You claimed to be the least difficult of men. The shadows of culture, sex,and the Museum of Modern Art.How...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stephanie Anderson

Stephanie Anderson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently the If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press), as well as several chapbooks. Her poems and essays have appeared or...

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Jami Macarty, The Minuses

Through the BranchesOranges as your kiss opens my mouthforgetting where we are in a park full of mockingbirds.When my eyes open I promise to tell the truth.The truth changes.A vulture eclipses. I...

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Kim Fahner reviews my Mansfield Press poetry title, A halt, which is empty...

I am incredibly grateful for Sudbury poet and critic Kim Fahner's attention this past week, after her review my Mansfield Press poetry title, A halt, which is empty(2019), was posted online over at Arc...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff is the award-winning author of three novels and two volumes of stories.  Her latest novel,In Many Waters, grapples with our worldwide refugee crisis. The White Space Between, which...

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new from above/ground press: Stanley, Kearney, Carpenter, Deutch, Rogal,...

Love Is not An AlgorithmGeorge Stanley$5See link here for more informationThe Peter F Yacht Club #28VERSeFest 2020 (10th anniversary!) special[ c a n c e l l a t i o n / p o s t p o n e m e n t  i s s...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dani Spinosa

Dani Spinosa is a Canadian scholar and poet. Her work investigates the role of authorship and anarchist politics in digital and print-based experimental poetry. She is the author of one scholarly...

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Jessica Q. Stark, Savage Pageant

Name Numerology K-Hole: 11 WeeksHope is a thing with a name, and  I am a personality calculator.I hunted for you in Internet lists.  This stranger sea—each routetoo wayward by edge and vowel.  A name...

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essays in the face of uncertainties

On March 28, 2020, Ed Nawotka offered this gem in the Los Angeles Times, an article I was first made aware of through a social media backlash:Looking ahead, only one thing is certain: Writers now have...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Peter Jordan

Peter Jordan writes short stories for which he has won many awards.He is the writer-in-residence for TSS Publishing.He has an MA from Queens University, Belfast, and is currently taking a PhD there.His...

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Genevieve Kaplan, (aviary)

The pattern of their beating wingsthe instinct is to hurry as the light fadeswhich is the pattern of their bearingthe pattern (the arc) left behind by its beatingits proud head. it watches and it’s...

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real life moves online : virtual readings, poems + an interview or two,

Given the chaos of the world, all the self-isolations have prompted some interesting responses, not only my own 'virtual reading series' over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. Susan...

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Brad Aaron Modlin, Everyone At This Party Has Two Names

What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth GradeMrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas,how peeling potatoes can be a form of...

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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Cunningham, Unsworth, Koss,...

Anticipating the release next week of the twenty-fifth 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 Amy Long

Amy Long is the author of Codependence: Essays, winner of the 2018 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Essay Collection Competition. Her work has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing...

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essays in the face of uncertainties

The children have spent the morning setting up what they’re calling their clubhouse, in the centre of our living room, relocating pillows, blankets, and furniture. They remain in the dresses they...

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