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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Taryn Hubbard
Taryn Hubbard’s poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews have been included in journals such as Canadian Literature, Room magazine, The Capilano Review, Canadian Woman Studies, CV2, filling Station,...
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Staycation day #351 :
Behind on everything, but working on my usual array of this, that, etcetera. The past few weeks, sketching out a handful of short stories, thinking about poems, and working on reviews. Working on a...
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Wayne Miller, We the Jury
Child, look: we’re building a house.We’re claiming space from the air, celling it off, then moving throughas though we haven’t just builtthe floor we’re standing on. Clouds of language fill our...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Conor Mc Donnell
Conor Mc Donnell (he / him) is a Toronto-based physician and poet. He has published two chapbooks, The Book of Retaliations (Anstruther Press), and Safe Spaces (Frog Hollow Press). He received...
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Brandon Courtney, This, Sisyphus
AFTERWORLD Once, an Iraqi spoke of a bird asleepon his throat before he opened his mouth to that white rush of waves. Believinghe’d turn into a tree from his grief, he planted his tongue-seed into...
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Mark Goodwin, Steps
if you are readingthis walk imaginativelyrather than actuallywalking it then there isonly one certainty this is a poem (“From a St Juliot to Beyond a Beeny, / a Walk in a North Cornwall”)I only...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with McCaela Prentice
McCaela Prentice’spoetry has previously been featured in Ghost City Press, Lammergeier Magazine, and Hobart. Her first chapbook, Junk Drawer Heart, appeared recently with Invisible Hand Press. She is...
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Spotlight series #59 : ryan fitzpatrick
The fifty-ninth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Toronto-based poet, editor and scholar ryan...
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Adam O. Davis, Index of Haunted Houses
HAUNTED HOUSE, 1780In august the sun held a coin to the silverberries. They ripened to cake among the gunshot, among the wounded with their piecemeal apples and parchment lips. Big houses roes bright...
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Sara Wainscott, Insecurity System: Poems
Sleep is the pretense of ease.Sleep aggravates the cash flow problem.I quit the real jobsand keep the stupid onesbecause of my distaste for work.Cheekbones earn sweet talk and they deserve it. Before...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nathanael O’Reilly
Nathanael O’Reilly is an Irish-Australian poet. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Texas at Arlington. His books include (Un)belonging(Recent Work Press, 2020);...
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Therese Estacion, Phantompains
Iron BodyI am no longer attached to my flesh. Even so,it is difficult to go out into the world like thisHalf other I am sometimes afraid of theHurtling Our assigned junkyards filled...
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Katie Fowley, The Supposed Huntsman
GRAVITYIn my house-like costume I inhabit space.This is a grave business.What is this grave business?I came dressed as plumbingand you came dressed as plumbing too.Childhood is so intensely serious....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back’s fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in a variety of publications and anthologies, such asCounterpunch,Huffington Post,Fifth Estate magazine,This Magazine,...
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Anna Leigh Knowles, Conditions of the Wounded
ESCAPE PLANSEvery August, I scan each new classroom for windows I could break.Which hallways are more accessible. Then maybe how, later onin the semester, I’ll start to notice the impulses of my own...
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Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, REVOLUTE
She thought the status of refugee was a warrantyto return. Between her and beyond, a nation,which also translates to a horizon. Never mindthat her village took a new name; the jarof water from her...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Barbara Chung
Barbara Chung grew up in California as the daughter of Korean immigrants and studied at Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles. Sunlight is her debut poetry collection, published...
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today is my fifty-first birthday,
My second annual lockdown birthday. My second annual no-party birthday. When might we hold parties again? My entire fifties-to-date trapped in lockdown. Does that suggest that I might still be,...
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Johannes Göransson, Poetry Against All: a diary
What is lost in the foreign? The currency of interiority. The communication of interiority. Without communication, language and bodies proliferate, become noisy. Foreigners lead to inflation: too many...
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I've a new short story, "The Truth about Sasquatches,"
posted this week over at Whiskey Tit. Thanks so much! Part of the work-in-progress short story manuscript, "Very suddenly, all at once."
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