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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kari Ann Flickinger
Kari Flickinger is the author of The Gull and the Bell Tower (Femme Salvé Books, December 2020). Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the SFPA Rhysling Award. She is an alumna of UC...
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Carlina Duan, Alien Miss
she was in love. she was in pain. a woman in her state needs nutrition, needs soil for her feet. a woman in her state needs a country. aisles. alleyways to roam. in her stillness she dreamed of...
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Talking 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,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Courtney LeBlanc
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat) and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press). She is also the...
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at the behest of reading 1Pandemic. To exist, precisely, as a speculative discourse.Orchard, orchard, trees. A past hope, anda formal splinter. Contemporary absence of what once a wealth of...
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Janet Gallant and Sharon Thesen, The Wig-Maker
My dad didn’t say a lot but he had only wonderful things to say about his grandmother his mother and his sister. He never talked about his father.I never knew anything else about...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tanya Olson
Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a Lecturer in English at UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County). Her first book, Boyishly, was published by YesYes Books in 2013 and...
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Bardia Sinaee, Intruder
You pulled my hair because you care.Suffering won’t make me beautiful like the peoplebuying menthol chest rubs at the pharmacy or the trees that drop used band-aids everywherethen feign death for a...
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Ongoing notes: late March, 2021: Cody-Rose Clevidence + Ana Hurtado,
Is it spring yet? Our wee monsters are in the backyard every day, returning to the house all covered in mud, so it would certainly seem to be. They are very, very pleased. It also means there are far...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lesle Lewis
Lesle Lewis’ books includeSmall Boat, Landscapes I & II, lie down too, A Boot’s a Boot, and her newest book Rainy Days on the Farm. She lives in New Hampshire. 1 - How did your first book change...
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lukas ray hall, loudest when startled
HOW TO BELONGwhen i drag home,at five in the morning carcass & split hooveswhen i show them where the heart splayedfrom its overwork when i show themhow the antlers held at the right anglecradle...
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Megan Kaminski, Gentlewomen
the lost girlsthis is how we disappearwalking without hesitation into darkness — sacks filled with glass bottle and feather boots lifting from gravel forward to song and snow driftstars...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with James Davies
James Daviesis a poet whose works includes stack, Plants, Forty-Four Poems and a Volta, A Dog, Snow, Rocks, and Acronyms. He is also the author of two novels: The Wood Pigeons & When Two Are in...
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francine j. harris, Here is the Sweet Hand
The joke is orange. Which has never been funny.For a while, I didn’t sleep on my bright side.Many airplanes make it through sky.The joke is present: dented and devil.For a while, yellow spots on the...
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On Writing : an occasional series
If you can imagine it, we're nine years and nearly one hundred and eighty essays into the occasional series of "On Writing" essays I've been curating over at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog. I've...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Darrin Doyle
Darrin Doyle teaches at Central Michigan University. The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusionsis his fifth book of fiction. He’s the author of the story collections Scoundrels Among Us and The Dark...
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K. Lorraine Graham, The Rest is Censored
I want to dress like Cal Worthington and hoola hoop across the country somehow in tribute to Peace Pilgrim.The rest of this poem is censored.Or we can just make this the poem / floor plan /...
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Conor Mc Donnell, Recovery Community
I am waiting for a terrible sentence to begin.I am waiting for permission. (“I am waiting for a terrible sentence to begin”)Toronto poet and physician Conor Mc Donnell’s full-length debut is the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessi MacEachern
Jessi MacEachern lives in Montréal, QC. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Is Dead, Vallum, MuseMedusa, Canthius, PRISM, and CV2. You can read her chapbook Ravishing the Sex Into the Hold online...
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Aaron Tucker, Catalogue D’oiseaux
I dream of you & a treethat flourishes serpentinea labyrinth up through packed earththrough clay & quartz & mica, through surfacesoilthe trunk tapers, splits into Ysthat further divide,...
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