12 or 20 (second series) questions with Justene Dion-Glowa
Justene Dion-Glowais a queer Métis creative, beadworker and poet born in Win-Nipi (Winnipeg) and has been residing in Secwepemcú'lecw (Kamloops) since 2014. They are a Banff Centre for Arts and...
View ArticleSpotlight series #80 : Nanci Lee
The eightieth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Nova Scotia-based poet and facilitator Nanci...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lucy Holme
Lucy Holme is a poet and mother who lives in Cork City, Ireland. Her poems and essays feature in The Stinging Fly, Southword, Bad Lilies, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, and Wild Court amongst...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Melissa Fite Johnson
Melissa Fite Johnsonis the author of Green (Riot in Your Throat, 2021) and While the Kettle’s On(Little Balkans Press, 2015), a Kansas Notable Book. She is also the author of A Crooked Door Cut into...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eileen Cleary
Eileen Cleary is the author of Child ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, and 2 a.m. with Keats(Nixes...
View ArticleMira Rosenthal, Territorial
begins in dirt, clumps of Queen Anne’s lace, bindweed unfurling in moons in the morning to start somewhere to perform one’s certain act of failurebegins as still life with foliage &...
View Articlefrom A river runs through it: a writing diary
, collaborating with Julie CarrAs part of my recent substack, I’ve started posting (among other things) sections of this particular and lengthy essay-in-fragments, and thought it would be worth...
View Articlehappy seasonal things, christmas + greetings,
From all of us to all of you: whatever it is you celebrate, if at all, I hope it is merry, healthy and all other good things. We can only improve from here, I think.Photo credit: Elizabeth Fulton...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessica Gigot
Jessica Gigot is a poet, farmer, and writing coach. Her second book of poems, Feeding Hour, was a finalist for the 2021 Washington State Book Award. Jessica’s writing and reviews appear in several...
View ArticleEmily Bludworth de Barrios, Shopping, or The End of Time
80 to 90 percent of my awarenessIs a delicate ear turned gently toward my son Which means I ignoreWhat would have previously torn me asunder You may imagine motherhood as a funnel of sandInto which...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shane Kowalski
Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania. He works for the United States Postal Service. He is the author of Small Moods (Future Tense Books). 1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How...
View ArticleAdrian Lürssen, Human Is to Wander
Between I andyou comesa sounding out against picture frames, chanting in exchangefor landscape. She spoke as if underwater: Hereis a map. Here, a spoonful of honey. Lying in wait,the curious air of a...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ned Baeck
Ned Baeckstudied Liberal Arts at Concordia University and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His poetry has appeared in The Continuist, untethered, Sewer Lid, Ottawa Arts Review,...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sam Szanto
Sam Szanto lives in Durham, UK. Her debut short story collection If No One Speaks was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2022. Over 50 of her stories and poems have been published/ listed in...
View Articledusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is nearly a decade old, with new poems by more than five hundred different authors. Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the...
View ArticleDale Tracy, Derelict Bicycles
UNDER EVERY MYSTERY, ANOTHERThrown from my sled I skid through snowon my knees. I look back at my tracks beforeknowing I’ve come to rest on deer carcass.Hating waste, I think perhaps I could eat...
View ArticleOngoing notes: early January 2023: Lillian Nećakov + Miranda Mellis
The first notes of the new year! There are so many notes. And did you see my report of our recent holiday gathering via The Peter F Yacht Club? Or the next event on our calendar, a Covid-era memorial...
View Articlehappy thirty-second birthday, kate!
Thirty-two? How did this happen? Happy birthday! Gadzooks!
View ArticleShort poem for a long winter
This is why we bundle: freezing rain, a loss of pitch. The accuracyof this ink white sheet. Forecasts one might reach by water. Schools closed, pajama days; suspension...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Délani Valin
Délani Valin is neurodivergent and Métis with Nehiyaw, Saulteaux, French-Canadian and Czech ancestry. She studies for her master’s in professional communications at Royal Roads University, and has a...
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