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essays in the face of uncertainties
On May 8, someone on twitter asks: Why is it snowing? The following day, the same question. Today is colder than yesterday. The sky is overcast, and there’s even some rain.I attempt to return to the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Heidi Wicks
Heidi Wickshas written for CBC, The Globe and Mail, The Telegram, The Independent and Newfoundland Quarterly.Her work is featured in Breakwater’s creative nonfiction anthology, Best Kind, and fiction...
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Ottawa's third (virtual?) Promise Walk for Preeclampsia
Yesterday Christine, the wee girls and myself did walk around Orlando park to get our kilometres in for the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia, an event that she organized in Ottawa in 2018 and 2019....
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new from above/ground press: Babineau, Melançon + G U E S T [a journal of...
G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #12 : guest-edited by Jim Johnstonewith new writing by M. Travis Lane, Tess Liem, Matthew Zapruder, bill bissett, Tracy Wai de Boer, Téa Mutonji, Roxanna Bennett,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susannah Nevison
Susannah Nevison is the author of Lethal Theater (The Ohio State University Press, 2019), the recipient of the Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize from OSU/The Journal, and Teratology (Persea Books, 2015),...
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essays in the face of uncertainties
Fifty-seven days into lock-down, articles begin to emerge that speak of endings. How might this pandemic end? They claim the ending is two-fold, two-sided: the end of the disease itself, or the social...
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Leslie Scalapino w Michael Cross: Last Interview &“Poetics”
Cross: Let’s start with your first full-length trade edition, Considering how exaggerated music is (a book that collects many of your early chapbooks). You claim, inAutobiography, that “It was the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carlos Soto-Román
Carlos Soto-Román is a poet and translator. Author of 11 (Municipal Poetry Prize, Santiago 2018) he has published in the United States Philadelphia’s Notebooks (Otoliths, 2011), Chile Project:...
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(another) very short story;
From a period that began in the late 1990s, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s writing studio in Istanbul sat in an apartment on Susan Sokak, a street name that translated into English as “Sesame Street.” I...
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newly posted at periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
new this month at periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics:Primitive Information Episode 2 : David Hadbawnik interviews Dorothy Chan ; Natalka Bilotserkivets : Three translations by Ali Kinsella...
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Ongoing notes: early September, 2020 : Rick Barot + Virginia Konchan,
September! This is totally the longest March Break on record. Did I mention we’re keeping our wee children home? And don’t forget to keep an eye on the ottawa small press book fair home edition...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carlos Lara
Carlos Lara [image credit: Melissa Lara] is the author of The Green Record(Apostrophe, 2018) and Like Bismuth When I Enter (Nightboat, 2020), and he also co-authored The Audiographic As Data (Oyster...
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Spotlight series #53 : Alina Stefanescu
The fifty-third in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Birmingham, Alabama poet and editor Alina...
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Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader, eds. Sina Queyras, Geneviève...
Nicole Brossard’s work is both thrill and balm – and now, in Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader, readers can encounter the full range and scope of her trajectory. We have worked to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Justin Million
Justin Million is a print and digital media poet, a performance artist, the founder of the Show and Tell Poetry Series, a co-founder and poetry editor at bird, buried press, and is the author of...
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Barbara Henning, Digigram
Raining—a full moon—wake up late—open my mail—a refund check—damp and cold—off to the credit union—an American flag strikes the flag pole—on Avenue B—an archbishop guides parishones—catholic-leaning...
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(another) very short story;
It became a pub game, to recall as many bands as possible named for points on a map: Kansas, Boston, Chicago, Chilliwack, Europe, Toronto, Alabama. In reality, no one should be able to name so many. It...
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Andrew Zawacki, Unsun
SURFACE-TO-SURFACE SONNETDaughter you need a real jetlag planFor the wee hoursWhen sleeping it off isn’t workingA banter of scare quotes to antlerAny storm : the angelsPlaying marbles, trucks that try...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jami Macarty
Jami Macarty is the author of The Minuses, a Mountain West Poetry Series title, published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University (February, 2020). She is also the author of...
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Aditi Machado, Emporium
I came along a silk route. I came low like low things. Slow, farcicalleaves rimmed the trees. Some chic birds. I came along a long way,bolstered by merchants and prophylactics and an obscure shadethat...
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