We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Eds. Andrea Abi-Karam...
Companion PoeticaSet you down first:acres of frostthen: acres of thaw then: both of uslive under law.You came up in a green landshoulders highover the sea. I had some green mento crow over me. We will...
View Articlei was interviewed in the Kenyon Review, wrote a 'notes from the field' in...
It has been a while since I've done a round-up, hasn't it? Well, to begin, then: Ruben Quesada was good enough to allow me to answer some interview questions recently over at the Kenyon Review, which...
View ArticleIsabel Sobral Campos, How to Make Words of Rubble
Three blind ecology fills # rock. Thee filament hollow as gale treebursting with hurricane darts. Split tree is shapedconch defangs undulating hemlock. Down below head on argillite.Fragments impair...
View ArticlePhil Hall, Toward a Blacker Ardour
Now I can’t reckon my own maelstromswithout a pen this pencil bump these two grown out but silent banjo nailsespecially when I’m now of & un-of / unlit &...
View ArticleSimone Kearney, DAYS
mouth is somewhere else, ant farm, bee nest, little eloping hairs, windows are formsof escape, off you go like a horse with your eyes swelling to pinpricks, horns that piercethe fine tunic of road...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Siobhan Jamison
Siobhan Jamison [photo credit: Alejandro Collados-Núñez] was born in Manchester to parents from Northern Ireland. She spent the 90’s living between Paris and Dublin but grew up in Toronto, where she...
View ArticleAmong the Neighbors: a pamphlet series for the study of Little Magazines :...
The idea of putting together a magazine was fomented in 1985 by Adeena’s professor and mentor Warren Tallman, wire-thin, vodka-soaked-djinn, releaser of spells, opener of floodgates, who had done the...
View Articleperiodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
Recently on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics:edited and lovingly maintained by rob mclennan,new poetry by Pattie McCarthy, ryan fitzpatrick, lukas ray hall, Sarah MacDonell, Stephen Rood,...
View ArticleValentine’s Day, 2021: nina jane drystek, Nicholas Power + Julian Day,
Why yes, I did hand-make Valentine’s Day cards for our ridiculous wee monsters. Last week Rose produced some pouches out of paper and (mounds of) tape for them to collect Valentine’s Day cards, so I...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rod Carley
Rod Carley’s first novel, A Matter of Will, was a finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction. His short story, “A Farewell to Steam,” was featured in the non-fiction anthology, 150 Years Up...
View ArticleMaxe Crandall, The Nancy Reagan Collection
Since meetings Nancy I’d had the distinct pleasureof landing on the shores of Hell, so to speak, where demon people from profit from doom.This was a dense area to cover on foot, peering out of the...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Douglas Burnet Smith
Douglas Burnet Smith is the GG Award–nominated author, and Burden is his seventeenth book of poetry. He divides his time between Atlantic Canada and Athens, Greece. He is currently Writer-in-Residence...
View ArticleThree short reviews: June Gehringer, Tess Brown-Lavoie + Paul Zits,
Some of these books I’ve been carrying around and flipping through for months, writing up notes so long ago I can’t even find those notes anymore. But I wanted to at least get something writ up to...
View ArticleGregory Crosby, Said No One Ever
CatechismTo turn language into a hat upona table, & to lift it, revealing neither the head nor tail of a coin,but a solid block of ice. A miracleof rare device. The endless hours ofpatience,...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ian Stansel
Ian Stansel is the author of the short story collection Glossary for the End of Days (Acre Books, 2020) and the novel The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017), named a best...
View Article12 or 20 (small press) questions with Devon Gallant, Luc-Antoine Chiasson and...
Cactus Press is a Montreal based micro-press specializing in limited edition poetry chapbooks and other print ephemera.Devon Gallantis the editor-in-chief of Cactus Press and the author of four...
View ArticleCarrie Olivia Adams, Be the thing of memory
When a material, namely miserable, muffled-up. In November, I sent it to my harm. I was often astonished and could not understand why, corrected or destroyed, I used to be delighted. Sometimes, a...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Alysia Sawchyn
Alysia Sawchynis a Features Editor for The Rumpus and currently lives in Northern Virginia. She splits her time between teaching professional writing and admin work. Her first book, A Fish Growing...
View ArticleTalking Poetics : an occasional series
Anyone paying attention already knows that I’m always starting up some ridiculous scheme or another (see also: On writing, the Tuesday poem, National Poetry Month, 12 or 20 (second series) questions,my...
View ArticleJessi MacEachern, A Number of Stunning Attacks
Gender is a good friend A hurt self on wooden surfaceAn immediate forgetting A decaying kaleidoscopeEncouraging the smoke I’ve forgotten about morning, Benjamin attests...
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