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some sainte-adèle, thanksgiving;
We only managed an overnight, but we did get our regular Thanksgiving Sainte-Adèle trip in, at least, spending time at mother-in-law's cottage with her for a bit. Can you believe I haven't done a post...
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Benjamin Niespodziany, no farther than the end of the street
First DateYou bought a plot of land and you dug a hole. You filled the hole with seasoned meat and cedar and silk. You covered the hole and you waited. It was supposed to take nine months, but I...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tasnuva Hayden
Tasnuva Hayden is a writer based in Calgary, Alberta, where she works as a consulting engineer and editor for filling Station, Canada’s experimental literary magazine. Her work has appeared in Nōd,...
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Chia-Lun Chang, Prescribee
I need to gain the most profound wordsto prove to the speakers: I’m valuable &look good in the morning. (“ENGLI-SHHH ISN’T YOURS”)Born and raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan, New York City-based...
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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
Recently on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics: new poetry by Joseph Kidney, Lannii Layke, russell carisse, Margo LaPierre, Kristjana Gunnars, Gary Barwin, Ori Fienberg, Heather Cadsby,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ivan Drury
Ivan Drury published his first book of poetry, Un, with Talon Books in the spring of 2022. He has lived his whole life on the unceded territories of Coast Salish and Sto:lo nations; currently, on...
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above/ground press: 2023 (THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY) subscriptions now available!
THIRTY YEARS! The race to the half-century continues! And with more than TWELVE HUNDRED TITLES produced to date, there’s been a ton of above/ground press activity over the past year, including some...
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Cecily Nicholson, Harrowings
for a rattling mind and cooped-up bodyecliptic this apparent path the best time to plantfrom cultivated and ponded poetics four clefs inclinein mutual will-o’-the-wisps and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Luke Hathaway
Luke Hathaway is a trans poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He has been before now at some time boy and girl, bush, bird, and a mute fish in...
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Kyra Simone, Palace of Rubble
COUNTY FAIRHe hopes to fly a giant helium balloon a record twenty-five miles into the earth’s atmosphere and parachute down. This is a moment worthy of fanfare. Six teenagers stand with their heads...
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Chus Pato, The Face of the Quartzes, trans. Erín Moure
Galicia is a promontory of stone sitting on the Iberian peninsula above Portugal. Its language, Galician, derived from Latin, is the root language of modern Portuguese and stubbornly survives to the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet, writer and workshop facilitator based between Nottingham and London. Teo's debut poetry collection The Ox House is now available from Penteract Press. The image of Teo provided was...
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Nicole McCarthy, A SUMMONING: MEMORY EXPERIMENTS
He takes me on vacations while he’s home, transporting our state of mind from deployment life to post-deployment lets-try-hard-for-normalcy life. ‘Let’s take a picture’ rolls off his tongue with every...
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MODL Press (2000-2009): an interview with ryan fitzpatrick, and a bibliography,
this interview was conducted over email from March to October 2022 as part of a project to document literary publishing. see my list of interviews and bibliographies of literary publications past and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Claire Marie Stancek
Claire Marie Stancek is the author of wyrd] bird (Omnidawn, 2020), Oil Spell (Omnidawn, 2018), and MOUTHS (Noemi, 2017). With Daniel Benjamin, she co-edited the anthology of Australian poetry, Active...
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1.In Goose Bay, Labrador , the salt airslant. This long approaching chill of split infinities, October. Pandemic months of inquiry,as...
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Allison Adair, The Clearing
GETTYSBURGThe peacock’s spurs are caught againin the diamond chickenwire of his lowslanted pen. Nobody bothers anymoreto hammer the sagging barn. Summer visitors regard the old farm from carswithout...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michelle Poirier Brown
Michelle Poirier Brown is nêhiyaw-iskwêw and a citizen of the Métis Nation, currently living in Vernon, BC. Her debut book of poems You Might Be Sorry You Read This was published in 2022 by the...
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imogen xtian smith, stemmy things
i am not a woman. My gender is feminine.Even the moon travels farther for whatit wants. Mostly i am water—swollen,mourning, tie a blue ribbon round my finger& forget me. Do you think me...
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Brenda Hillman, In a Few Minutes Before Later
Tech certainly hadn’t helped; chlorpyrifos;;—cities eking out funds, people sleeping in tents with black & white dogs & children;racist prisons—you’re getting numb to the...
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