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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ian Kinney
Ian Kinney holds an MA in English from the University of Calgary. Kinney plays with found text. In their debut book of poetry entitled, Air Salt : A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall (U of C...
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Mercedes Eng, my yt mama
how my yt settler mama met myChinese immigrant dadthere are different versions of how. I remember my dad telling an exciting story of breaking out of Matsqui Penitentiary in B.C.: scaling the...
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Spotlight series #48 : Martin Corless-Smith
The forty-eighth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Boise, Idaho poet and critic Martin...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Pearson
Paul Pearson is the co-founding editor and chapbook designer for the Olive Reading Series. His poems have appeared in Descant and Event, and the anthology Writing the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets...
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our Aoife is already four years old! how does that happen?
Here is our ridiculous wee girl, during one of our many, endless, isolation days. How is she four years old already? Happy birthday, Aoife! My third and final child, wearing her mother's t-shirt from...
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Amanda Auerbach, what need have we for such as we
WorkI do things to get to other thingswithout caring what they areuntil the day suddenlybreaks off of meor I break offto do my own thingsto go over hillstrace sounds farawayuntil the day...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
Through the self-isolations, I’ve already begun to feel my mood begin to shift. Harder to get to sleep at night, harder to wake the following morning. By the time I do rise, Christine on the couch on...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Diana S. Adams
Diana Adams is an Edmonton, Alberta based writer with work published in a variety of journals including Fence,Boston Review, Drunken Boat, Fogged Clarity, Poets and Artists, The Laurel Review,...
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WANTING EVERYTHING: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch, edited by Deanna...
Years ago, when I complained to Warren Tallman that I’d never be able to write again, he said you’ll have to invent a new form, one that allows for interruptions. (A neighbourhood Doberman and Boss...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Conyer Clayton
Conyer Clayton is an Ottawa-based artist and gymnastics coach, originally from Louisville, Kentucky. She has 6 chapbooks; most recently Trust Only the Beasts in the Water (above/ground press, 2019). In...
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Adam Clay, To Make Room for the Sea
ExileThere is night and there is night,though neither are good or bad.A mark of punctuation throughthe face—a slash, I think, like howthe reality of breathing means lessthan how we do it. Deeplyin a...
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two recent essays : on reviewing + on george bowering's delayed mercy and...
My essay, "The further adventures of rob mclennan, reviewer" is now online at The Town Crier (thanks to Annick MacAskill for the solicitation), as is my essay on George Bowering's Delayed Mercy and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Emily Brandt
Emily Brandt is the author ofFalsehood, as well as three poetry chapbooks: Sleeptalk Or Not At All, ManWorld and Behind Teeth. Her poems have appeared in many journals including LitHub, The Recluse,...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
Within an hour or two of waking this morning, Rose begins hiding ‘pretend Easter eggs’ across the house for her sister to find. Aoife hides her eyes underneath my desk in anticipation. Apparently this...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Ruth Novaczek interviews Laurie Stone
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, asRuth Novaczek interviews Laurie Stone. Other interviews from my tenure include: an interview...
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Joe Blades (1961-April 22, 2020)
I’m stunned and deeply sad to hear that Fredericton writer, artist, editor, publisher, community enthusiast, radio host and a ton of other things, Joseph Wendell (or simply, Joe) Blades died this past...
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Michael Cavuto, COUNTRY POEMS
the made-upMexico, old man’s porch& the riderless horse Two spent pistols made made-up holes on the body, and a poem in your pocket home...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Megan Merchant
Megan Merchant lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ with her husband and two children. She holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV and is the author of three full-length...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with John C. Goodman on Trainwreck Press
Trainwreck Press is a Canadian micro-press publishing chapbooks of poetry that is non-linear, abstract, avant-garde, alternative, innovative, surreal, visual, concrete and/or experimental. Basically,...
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Chaudiere Books : National Poetry Month 2020
In case you missed it, I've been curating poems for National Poetry Month over at the Chaudiere Books blog (there are other activities on the site apart from that, of course, including the weekly "Six...
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