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Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Basic Needs: poems
FRIDAY / I try to feel what I think / This feeling will feel / Like but Ican’t / How will it feel / It could be enchantment / To quit / The feelingof repetition for creativity / Of having done this...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Wayne Ng
Wayne Ng is a school social worker in Ottawa. As a child, he ran wild in Toronto’s Chinatown, inspiring his latest novel, Letters From Johnny. Like his idealist Lao Tzu in his debut bookFinding the...
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Don McKay, Lurch
SONG FOR THE SONG OF THE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKIf you hear a robin who’s had voice lessons,Roger Tory Peterson suggests, it’s probably him.OK, but not a robin who’s gotten uppity, notthe pop star...
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Ongoing notes: very late August, 2021: Adam Seelig + nina jane drystek,
Time keeps moving. I’m not even going to ask about it anymore. “The summer’s almost gone / The winter’s tuning up”Toronto ON: Poet, playwright, stage director and theatre company founder Adam Seelig...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rayanne Haines
Rayanne Haines’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from, Fiddlehead, Impact: The Lives of Women After Concussion Anthology, Voicing Suicide Anthology, The Selkie Resiliency Anthology, Freefall,...
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Colin Smith, Permanent Carnival Time
In a different world, my labour at the car wash would have me as a member of IU 670 – for making cars, IU 440 – for retail clerkhood, IU 660 – for making books and magazines and newspapers happen, IU...
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Travis Sharp, YES, I AM A CORPSE FLOWER
I is a sexed interior wondering through a field of objects.There is a recurrence of a lone.Am I is or are.In these dreams an unnamed forest of bright lights.What I wouldn’t give to be made up of...
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new from above/ground press : May-August 2021 : twenty-four new titles,
I clearly need to be posting these updates more often: G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #18 : edited by Melissa Eleftherion : with new work by Caroline Goodwin, Nancy Chen Long, Elise Ficarra,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sean McCammon
Sean McCammon grew up rambling the forests and marshes of the Rideau River near Ottawa. He graduated with a BA in English and philosophy from Queen’s University, and taught English in Japan in the...
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Cam Scott, ROMANS/SNOWMARE
I am a lifelong passenger, riding besideSomeone, or else behind them, with affection.I like to fiddle with the radio, one wayIn which I am a child today, happily captiveAnd the best songs I associate...
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two days ago, we buried my father,
Some sixteen months after he died [see my obituary for him here], we set his cremated remains in the ground, just there with my mother. At the moment, at least, I don't have too much else to say about...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Therese Estacion
Therese Estacionis part of the Visayan diaspora community. She spent her childhood between Cebu and Gihulngan, two distinct islands found in the archipelago named by its colonizers as the Philippines,...
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dusie : the tuesday poem
The Tuesday poem is more than eight years old, with nearly four hundred and fifty new poems published to date! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot...
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Rosmarie Waldrop, The Nick of Time
Meanwhile you cling to your book. Do the words still float you to Prospero’s island? Or drop, separate coins, bringing no dew from the Bermudas? I put my hope in the fundamental difference between...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dallas Hunt
Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty Eight territory in northern Alberta. He has had creative worked published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, PRISM...
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Sarah Mangold, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners
They put our bodyinto the text and there we aremade to wonder how far inwe have gone Make us exclaimin the space of hissingthroat clearing explicit instructionshow to look naturalI am very pleased to...
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Clint Burnham, White Lie
Like a MotherfuckerHow can you tell if someone’s looking at you, he wondered. That I’ve never been able to figure out. A 500 yard stare, a friend of his described it, but who can see that far? The...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stephan Torre
Stephan Torre's [photo credit: Judy Currelly] formative years were spent in western Montana, the northern California coast and British Columbia. Though he’s lived largely off-grid and in rural...
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José Felipe Alvergue, scenery, a lyric
The fiction moves in where the absence of real reckoningleaves a space unaccommodated with the words we have...
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Ongoing notes: mid-September, 2021: Gala Uzryutova + Lindsey Webb,
So, right now I’m basically attempting to get another two dozen books reviewed before the semi-annual deluge of new titles begin to land. That sounds reasonable as a goal, doesn’t it? Gadzooks!Cobourg...
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