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Windsor Review: Best Writers Under 35, ed. Jenny Sampirisi
A Sparkle-Scale SunriseA sparkleso tinyand in its brillianceso bravetookwhat there isleftof lightand threw ithighpayingno mindthere wasn’ta skythat could hold ithere (Souvankham...
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Dennis Cooley, the stones
Scotland is they say \\a hard placewhere sounds store in stones and stories score on rocka cryptic story the dead slammedopen & shut abandoned quarries the...
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my second novel, missing persons (2009), reviewed in Canadian Literature
Reviewer Gordon Bölling was good enough to discuss my second novel, missing persons (Toronto ON: The Mercury Press, 2009) in a kind and generous review over at Canadian Literature (even though I think...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Michael Sikkema on Shirt Pocket Press
Shirt Pocket Press is a ragtag kitchen table chapbook press focused on poetry, vispo, asemic writing, fauku, lists, collage work, radical nature writing, anarchic recipes, conceptual and procedural...
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Chaudiere Books: our rebuilding year,
Since Ottawa literary publisher Chaudiere Books was founded by Jennifer Mulligan and rob mclennan in 2006 the press has produced an impressive thirteen titles of poetry and fiction (including a couple...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eileen Myles
Eileen Myleswas born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1949, was educated in catholic schools, graduated from U. Mass. (Boston) in 1971 and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. She quickly became part of...
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writing fatherhood, pt. 3 : open book: ontario,
My piece, "Writing Fatherhood, part three" (see the first part here and the second part here), is now online at Open Book: Ontario; in which I discuss some works by Sharon Thesen, Sylvia Plath, Pat...
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I've a new poem, "Life, Sentence," now online at Otoliths,
I've a new sequence of prose poems, "Life, Sentence" (part of a longer, larger manuscript of prose poems) now online at Otoliths. Another sequence from the same manuscript appears in the current issue...
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Michael Boughn, Great Canadian Poems for the Aged, Vol. 1
My short review of Michael Boughn's Great Canadian Poems for the Aged, Vol. 1 (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2012) is now online at Bywords.ca
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lauren Shufran
Lauren Shufran is a PhD candidate at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she studies Early Modern English lyric and prophecy. She received her MA and her MFA in poetry at San Francisco...
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Introducing: Rose Irene Valentina McLennan, b. Nov 20, 8:54am
Our new little girl, Rose Irene Valentina McLennan, was born Wednesday, November 20 at 8:54am at Ottawa’s Monfort Hospital. Due on November 14th, our little Scorpio arrived after thirty-six and a half...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Klinger
Paul Klinger grew up around alligators in RWJ Airpark, just outside of Baytown, Texas. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and his JD from the University of Houston. He has published...
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Michael Blouin, I Don’t Know How To Behave: A Fiction
We are floating up a steep scrubby slope towards what appears to be a huge cement ramp leading nowhere. The camera moves haphazardly as if being carried by someone who has forgotten that it is there....
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Jonathan Ball, The Politics of Knives
First ManifestoWhen she spoke, she did not speakbut with exhalation of wires.Twelve awaited another.When the process proposed.Left her nothing buttime-limited amounts.So iron sought skin.And she said,...
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Keith Waldrop, The Not Forever
an object upon whichnothing dependsno matter whatkind, if onlyone and not nonewithoutinterior, I do notchoose to give moredefinite relationsSubtitled “[inventions],” The Not Forever(Richmond CA:...
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book launch! Ground rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground...
Produced to begin the re-launch of Ottawa literary publisher Chaudiere Books, co-publishers rob mclennan and Christine McNair invite you to the launch of Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of...
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two new poems : thunderclap press
I've two new poems -- "Downwind" and "Erasures, driftwood" -- now up at the Thunderclap Press website.
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Lucy Ives, Orange Roses
The first sentence is a sentence about writing. The second sentence tells you it’s alright to lose interest. (“Early Poem”)According to the press release that comes with New York City poet Lucy Ives’...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese. She is the author of two books of poetry, My Funeral Gondola (Manoa Books/El Léon, 2013) and Water the Moon (Marick, 2010), as...
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six short short stories and an essay : matchbooklitmag
I’ve got six short, short stories posted this week at matchbooklitmag: stories quite short plus author’s notes, all part of the forthcoming The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books). See...
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