Ongoing notes: late November, 2013
My work is to point out the inescapability of neglect and call for a slower, deeper interaction with it. As we reached the end of our inaugural experience of neglect, our attention returned to skin,...
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grain magazine 41.1: home-myths
My artistic practice is and always has been based on the creation of fictive characters who perform distilled psychological, social and experiential narratives in painting tableaux, drawing, and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessica Kluthe
Jessica Kluthe’s first book, Rosina, The Midwife was released in March, and since then has been on the Edmonton Journal’s list of best sellers for eight weeks. Two chapters of Rosina were recognized...
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Ken Belford, Internodes
Give the word, and disperse earlyand displace often. Let gaps flyopen. Let the ambiguous in andbegin with a little old-time melodiccontour, the outcome of movement,the on-the-job practice of workingout...
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12 or 20 questions: a (small) overview,
For those who haven't been keeping track, I've been running the "12 or 20 questions" series since September 2007, when I originally entered Edmonton for my tenure as writer-in-residence at the...
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Deborah Meadows, Translation – the bass accompaniment: Selected Poems
Of disagreements on the history and function of the apostrophe, some sources say it’s used for missing letters or had a start as a printer’s mark to indicate omission, but more interesting is the claim...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang's third book of poems, The Boss, was published by McSweeney's in July 2013. Her other books are Salvinia Molesta and Circle. Her poems have been published in American Poetry Review,...
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Lily Brown, The Haptic Cold
TAXONOMICI saw the bird throatlike a toadbillow out; thoughtto take a pictureand send it.I swallowed the doorjamb’sshine. The thresholdbreaks off as I use it.The water has a breezesays the dog-eared...
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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 (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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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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Peter Culley, Parkway
I abandon my selfto a blushing of precise boundaries,like where a squirrel wouldstep up to snap the branchback fast enoughto ride the torque all the way back,a walnut under each arm – getaway with...
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new from above/ground press: Timewell + dueck,
tones employed as lossLary Timewell$4See link here for more information@BillMurray in Purgatorionathan dueck$4See link here for more informationkeep an eye on the above/ground press blog for author...
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