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Cole Swensen, Art In Time
These artists—again, intentionally or not—have engaged the landscape genre in a fluid way, a way that puts the landscape back into motion, and in doing so, they have found alternatives to some of the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Beth Kope
Beth Kope grew up in Alberta and is honoured to live, work, and play in Victoria, BC, Coast Salish territory of Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ nations. Kope has taught in Alberta, Adelaide, Australia and Quebec...
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Divya Victor, Curb
SETTLEMENTSettlers, over the land, over the seaover the tile, over the stone floorssettlers over the furs, over the pinewood planksof the house settled, the houses settled into the groundthe houses so...
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Andreae Callanan, the debt
Infinity dressThe infinity dress was a lie, and we all bought it.A circle skirt of quivering, cool silk jersey, two broad straps plenty long to drape over shoulders,stretch across breasts, wind around...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lindsay Hunter
Lindsay Hunter is the co-founder and co-host of the groundbreaking Quickies! reading series, an event that focused on flash fiction. Her first book, Daddy’s, a collection of flash fiction, was...
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Muriel Leung, IMAGINE US, THE SWARM
I wanted to write a book about Orpheus andEurydice, how they lived and died and died again. How hellish, discovering that the journey was notenough, even at its end, that impulse to look back,which is...
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Mouse Eggs (1976-81): an interview with Ken Norris and Endre Farkas, and...
this interview was conducted over email from December 2020 to May 2021 as part of a project to document literary publishing. see my bibliography-in-progress of Ottawa literary publications, past and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Katie Cortese
Katie Cortese is the author of Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories (ELJ Editions, 2015) and Make Way for Her and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Her work has recently appeared...
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Joan Retallack, BOSCH’D
Human [hyu-muhn]The human is one of many humorous creatures rolled out in the evolution of this planet. Wholly animal, charismatically self-conscious, intellectually ambitious, emotionally feral....
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Spotlight series #62 : em/ilie kneifel
The sixty-second in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Tiohtiá:ke-based sick slick, poet/critic...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Greg Bem
Greg Bem is a poet and librarian currently living in Seattle, Washington, USA. His recent books are Of Spray and Mist (Hand to Mouth, 2021) and Green Axes(Alien Buddha, 2021). He works extensively in...
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Ongoing notes: mid-June, 2021: Dani Spinosa + Cameron Anstee
Oh, I know. Remember when this would have been the time of year when we’d be gearing up for the spring edition of the ottawa small press book fair? I’m hoping we can return to such by the fall, but...
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Jen Sookfong Lee, The Shadow List
THIRD PERSON INTIMATEYour poor protagonist, face upto watch the meteor shower symbolicallyarcing across the August sky.She never really had a chance. You are used to writing novels,to placing a human...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Wojciechowski
David Wojciechowskiis the author of Dreams I Never Told You & Letters I Never Sent(Gold Wake Press). His poems have appeared in Bateau, Jellyfish Magazine, Meridian, Figure 1, Sporklet, and other...
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Pattie McCarthy, wifthing
margerykempethingnot getting any closer to the offingmargery kempe gives birth in a hairshirta wifthing par excellence a female patiencefigure in her fourteenth confinementa comfortably finds a...
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Miranda Mellis, DEMYSTIFICATIONS
2.She didn’t know what was about to be said.She had to find out after it came out. She knew what was about to be said.Was she hearing faster? How can you hear in advance?Hearing what hasn’t yet been...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eleanor Hooker
Eleanor Hooker’s third poetry collection and two chapbooks are due for publication in 2021. She holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. Her poems have been...
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Margaret Christakos, Dear Birch,
She is a diarist, & as such wantsto remember thoughts & events she has lived, especially the delicate events & contradictory thoughts sheperceives herself to be hearing & watching. She...
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the end of another school year: a stay-at-home story,
Today is staycation day #468: yesterday, our wee monsters completed their full year of Covid-era e-learning [see my first day of school report here], from their respective corners of our main floor....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matt Mitchell
Matt Mitchellis a cardinal chaser born in the rust of Northern Appalachia and now double-parked in Columbus, OH. He’s got work now or soon in Hobart, The Missouri Review, The Boiler, Bat City Review,...
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