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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Nemser
Paul Nemser grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he fell in love with poetry while reading in the storage room in back of his family's tool store. He received an AB from Harvard College where he studied...
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David O’Meara, Masses on Radar
Since each hour’s a sickle with a fighting chance,I tested fate’s etiquette and flattered the cat’s mercy.I was thinking of the grass’s trafficas I tipped the trap overbetween thin shoulder and...
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Andrea Brady, The Blue Split Compartments
FROZENDangling in my speech some prostheticviolence hangs on to the wingmirror as I turn left, out of the base.as I drive off the enslaved people recede into the past,seeding European literary history...
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Spotlight series #65 : Melanie Dennis Unrau
The sixty-fifth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Winnipeg poet, editor and critic Melanie Dennis...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joanna Fuhrman
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021). Recent poems and poetry videos have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Conduit, Fence, NAW, Moving...
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Kevin Andrew Heslop, the correct fury of your why is a mountain
through beauty in and through beauty outdon’t remind me to tell you the story about the worldon the eve of the fiasco of souls during the emblematic day...
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Wendy Xu, The Past
We don’t remember how we got here, so have woven a beautiful story of replacementYou mispronounce my sacred name, always in front of others, there it goesA fine white mist where once it held...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bardia Sinaee
Bardia Sinaee was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives in Toronto. His poems have appeared in magazines across Canada and in several editions of Best Canadian Poetry. He holds an MFA from the...
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MLA Chernoff, [Squelch Procedures]
Oh, enema of the skin—there is only one pome in this collection,and it is this one: a cross-legged inkblotswaying on command,triangulating $40 facial seruminto the langue of abusy training...
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Back to School : a(nother) stay-at-home story,
Another school year has begun, as well as our second annual September where our two wee monsters remain home as part of online learning: Aoife is in senior kindergarten, and Rose is in grade three [see...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin [Photo by Nikki Clayton; Mark Goodwin performing at the launch of Rock as Gloss, Sheffield 2019] is a walker, balancer, stroller & climber. He has been making poetry for over three...
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Oscar Oswald, Irredenta
COMATASThat I am listening to landscapethink of me midair, my atoms of the ironmade before my time in worker’s handhe lives with me, whomever he may beare they defiant men who seek himseeking to be...
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Síle Englert, The Lost Time Accidents
Garbage DisposalMy mouth, where you put discarded things:rust-icicle broken from a car-body,dark apron, its pocket still heavy with coins,fingerpainting in purple, black and blue. I swallowed paper...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amorak Huey
Amorak Huey’sfourth book of poems is Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology...
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Douglas Barbour (March 21, 1940-September 25, 2021)
[Doug Barbour during the Edmonton launch of University of Alberta Press poetry titles by myself, Robert Kroetsch and Alice Major, 2010]I’ve already spent half the day resisting the writing of this, but...
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Triny Finlay, Myself a Paperclip
First it was for you, this world.Jangle it like those coins in your front pocket.Jingle it around. Loose. Mindless sex in a crumbling clapboard house in the North...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sharon King-Campbell
Sharon King-Campbell [photo credit: Ashley Harding Photography] is a freelance theatre artist and storyteller. Her work has appeared in Riddle Fence and Word, and on stages across Newfoundland and...
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Carol Harvey Steski, rump + flank
various cutsshe is rump + flankshe is side + swivel hiptwirling skirtsteak chopsmack+ tender in the loins she isbonein she is marrowsoft+ babyback with lily-liveredopen eyes of round she...
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Anselm Berrigan, Pregrets
Pregretsa century of drawing, endorsed on spineby the scary amp code for pre-photographic childhood, bystander to a con-versation (see: religion), micro pigmentink for waterproof and fade proof...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ian Thomas Shaw
Ian Thomas Shaw was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. For the last 33 years, he has worked as a diplomat and as an international development worker, living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He...
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