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Alice Jones, VAULT
The terrible mind and how it wanders, automatic gestures,a built-in push away from contact, or the eagerness to holdlike a heat-seeking missile, air to ground, flash of lightning,can rearrange your...
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Dani Spinosa, OO: Typewriter Poems
It is an academic truism that the avant-garde has been dominated not simply by men, but by a masculine set of ideals. This may be true, but we cannot let the conversation stop there. experimental...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
“There are more important things than living.” Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick says to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, explaining his push to re-open the economy. I don’t even know how to process this, how there...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bill Abbott
Bill Abbott has been involved in Poetry Slam since 1992 and is the author of Let Them Eat MoonPie, the history of Poetry Slam in the Southeast. He has attended regional and national competitions,...
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Susannah Nevison, Lethal Theater
PROCEDURELeukemia vaccination on the left. Rabieson the right. I begin to see the animalsin terms of where afflictions might appear;ear mites and hookworms, mange or fleas or ticks,deadly Parvo that...
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Margo LaPierre reviews my Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil) for PRISM...
Thanks very much to Ottawa poet Margo LaPierre for reviewing my Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) over at PRISM International! You can always order a copy from me if you are so inclined, by the...
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Kim Kyung Ju, Whale and Vapor, trans. Jake Levine
A REALLY OLD FAREWELLI like a forest that has evidence of a fire.The smell of ants blackened in the sun.I like grass with a lot of husks. Fossils have kind hearts.They only appear in empty time. In...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison is a Canadian-Jamaican poet and the author of eight books of poetry, including Travelling Mercies, Controlling the Silver, and Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems, two collections of...
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Ongoing (isolation) notes: mid-June, 2020 : Vermeersch + Simpson,
Okay, so the ottawa small press book fair isn’t happening this spring, obviously, which is enormously frustrating, but check out the ottawa small press book fair home edition features I’ve been posting...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
Someone tweets a report of a brawl breaking out at an East York, Pennsylvania Red Lobster, due to the three-hour wait times. People are this close, someone else responds, to losing it. My mother-in-law...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brad Aaron Modlin
Brad Aaron Modlin wrote Everyone at This Party Has Two Names, which won the Cowles Prize and contains the poem “What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade.” His short collection of...
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new from above/ground press: Scroggins, Casteels + Papaxanthos, Yang-Thompson...
Elegiac VersesMark Scroggins$5See link here for more informationALL WE’VE LEARNED, WHICH ISN’T MUCHMichael e. Casteels and Nicholas Papaxanthos$5See link here for more informationG U E S T [a journal...
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Canisia Lubrin, The Dyzgraphxst
dysgraphia by the imprint the link the image displayed through nothing here| the kinds of given names | the coming away unmarked | the wonder at thisedge if it is I’s edge | at this head if it is I’s...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Yusuf Saadi
Yusuf Saadi’s first collection is Pluviophile(Nightwood Editions 2020). He previously won the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award and the The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry. At other times,...
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The Man from Glengarry
I am the tourist. I am the prodigal who hates the foreigner. Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family1.He asks himself: to be from somewhere, does that...
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today would have been my father's seventy-ninth birthday,
And here's a photo I discovered during one of our house-cleaning/sorting sessions, of my wee father with his maternal grandfather, Fred Campbell (1873-1963), in front of the Campbell house on...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
There have been reports on fatigue, of the two months-plus of lockdown, and the exhaustion that inevitably follows. How does one exist in a pandemic? Today I’m reading Buffalo, New York poet Noah...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Morgan Murray
MorganMurray was born and raised on a farm near the same backwoods west-central Alberta village (Caroline) as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning. He now dads, works, plays, writes, and builds all...
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Black Lives Matter : above/ground press chapbook give-away,
I thought it would be interesting to select a handful of titles from the above/ground press backlist for a Black Lives Matter chapbook giveaway, as a way to use our resources to provide our support in...
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today would have been my mother's eightieth birthday
and I recently found this book while working through sorting and cleaning the homestead. A photograph of their wedding, September 1967, that I hadn't seen before; held at the church right across the...
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