Quantcast
Channel: rob mclennan's blog
Browsing all 4569 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous

 IF CONTENTS IN / JOSEPH CORNELL’S BOX                                                                                    I won’t give wayto false teeth left in a champagne glass after a fightnor fall...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jaclyn Desforges

Jaclyn Desforges [photo credit: Jesse Valvasori] is the author of Danger Flower(Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books), one of CBC's picks for the best Canadian poetry of 2021. She's also the author of a...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

ryan fitzpatrick, Sunny Ways

 No I wasn’t in great shape before I signed thecontract but no the Frank Slide didn’t happen butno we may have worked there butno we never lived there butno we don’t have to pull out but (“Hibernia Mon...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Nathanael O’Reilly, BOULEVARD

 46.squirrels snicker, chuckle & squawkscamper up tree trunks across limbs & boughs, jump from trees to fence-topssprint across lawns, duck under hedges & shrubs, scurry along sidewalkswith...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brody Parrish Craig

Brody Parrish Craig is the author of the chapbook Boyish (Omnidawn 2021) and edited TWANG, a regional anthology of TGNC+ creators in the south/midwest. Their first book, The Patient is an Unreliable...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Milton Acorn and bill bissett, I Want to Tell You Love, A Critical Edition,...

             This introduction will acquaint readers with I Want to Tell You Love along with the places, figures, and ideas that were central to the creation of the book. It begins by providing an...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

the state of my desk :

 The stacks upon my desk are perpetual, with layerings of books, chapbooks, journals, unread newspapers, manuscript pages, correspondence and other ephemeral literary sediment across weeks, months and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Garry Gottfriedson

Garry Gottfriedson is from Kamloops, BC.  He is strongly rooted in his Secwepemc (Shuswap) cultural teachings. He holds a Masters of Arts Education Degree from Simon Fraser University.  In 1987, the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Nathalie Khankan, quiet orient riot

 said on these storied soils | I don’t spoil any seed | there is no pure race | a bride is still bridal | a checkpoint is STILL TORN HILL | in just a few weeks topographical categories shift & our...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Su Cho

Su Cho is a poet and essayist born in South Korea and raised in Indiana. She has an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University and a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has served as the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Capilano Review : 50th Anniversary Issue(s) : 3:46-3:48

 Last year, in anticipation of our 50th anniversary, we invited over a hundred of the magazine’s contributors to submit a term of their choosing to our special anniversary issues, the first of which...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

VERSeFest (Ottawa) 2023 : Volunteer Appreciation Night, March 4, 2023! w...

VERSeFest, Ottawa’s glorious poetry festival returns! Join us Saturday, March 4, 2023 (6:30 door/7pm reading) at Cooper's Creative Kitchen, Embassy Hotel & Suites, 25 Cartier Street, Ottawa, for an...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ann Lauterbach, Door

 TALLYAnd then the dream was assessedacross a black-and-gold screen. It warnednot to look out a the veiled air, notto recall the roomwhere she slept as a bearcame down the long dark hall.This occurred...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nancy Stohlman

Nancy Stohlman is the author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013),...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

George Bowering, Good Morning Poems

Most of a century ago, when my mother was a schoolgirl, Mr. Longfellow was still considered a serious and accomplished poet. He sold us Hiawatha and Evangeline and the midnight ride of Paul Revere,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Trevor Ketner, The Wild Hunt Divinations: a grimoire

 [When forty winters shall besiege thy brow]gowns web (herb hysteria)—let’s thin flowerythen—gaudy bicep—insistent herd—leaf dyedto holy doorway—hunt syrups—doze—giventhat i swallow debt, let me...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Danni Quintos

Danni Quintos is the author of the poetry collection,Two Brown Dots (BOA Editions, 2022), chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as winner of the Poulin Poetry Prize, and PYTHON (Argus House, 2017), an...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Valerie Hsiung, outside voices, please

 Project Relevance. The moment. We, the people, designated, shall be using baby wipes on the conditional statue. We, the people, designed, shall henceforth be busy using baby wipes instead of makeup...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

the book of smaller : two further reviews, (plus a bunch of others,

My 2022 poetry title, the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press) has garnered two further reviews over the past week! Nate Logan was good enough to write up a review for DIAGRAM, and Eric...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Erin Wilson

Erin Wilsongrew up in a rural community on Manitoulin Island, Canada. Her work has appeared in journals including Dalhousie Review,CV2, Verse Daily, Tar River, in the anthology Worth More Standing,...

View Article
Browsing all 4569 articles
Browse latest View live