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Matthew Hollett, Optic Nerve: poems
Roll OverWe didn’t learn the burned-out building had been a cinemauntil the day they tore it down, but we squeezed into the crowdto watch an excavator pulverize it into popcorn. In the rubblewe dug...
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Julia Cohen, Collateral Light
If your first assessment of a lake is its perimeterforego prayer for the faceWater slaps laps up eye-fauna In which designated space would your trappeddoor unfold? If I...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and former Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, trained initially in the sciences at MIT but has made his career in the...
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Emily Osborne, Safety Razor
“Sonatorrek”Hardly can I hoistmy tongue or mountsong’s steelyard, forge versein my mind’s foundry. My tear-sea swampspoetry, yet verse flowslike gore from a giant’sthroat onto Hel’s port.The cruel sea...
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Spotlight series #85 : Eric Schmaltz
The eighty-fifth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Toronto-based poet, editor and critic Eric...
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Margaret Ray, Good Grief, the Ground
It’s 2022. The world is ending, but how fast? and for whom? and what do we have to pay to keep it around for a little longer, just until we get that one last day with our kids, last hour of rolling...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cynthia Hogue
Cynthia Hogue’s new poetry collection is instead, it is dark (Red Hen Press, 2023). Her ekphrastic Covid chapbook is entitled Contain (Tram Editions 2022), and her new collaborative translation from...
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Kim Trainor, A thin fire runs through me
And when you are gone I embalm youwith words. Remove the tongue. Remove the eyes. When they ask me about you, I say I’ve moved on.There’s this boy with an oud. Always behind the barricades – no way...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Marta Balcewicz
Marta Balcewiczis the author of the novel Big Shadow (Book*hug Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in Catapult, Tin House online, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus, and Passages...
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Meghan Kemp-Gee, The Animal in the Room
OFFICE HOURSThey say, I want to know how to do better. I am applying to medical school next year, so I need to make sure I have perfect grades. I was wondering, they say, if we could go over the next...
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the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2023 edition: June 17, 2023
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: theottawa smallpress book fairspring 2023will be held on Saturday, June 17, 2023 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jake Byrne
Jake Byrne is a writer based in Tka:ronto, cka Toronto. Their first book of poems, Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin, is available now from Wolsak & Wynn's Buckrider Books imprint. DADDY is...
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Marie-Andrée Gill, Heating the Outdoors, translated by Kristen Renee Miller
Sometimes I close my eyes and pretend I’m there:You flip the choke, yank the cord, and we take off in a black cloud. With this much snow, we can’t break down; I’m not even wearing a coverall. I’m...
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Weyman Chan, Witness Back at Me
Tired yet strong, you tell me to read the White Paper. Nothingknows its place. Sunday you help me dig daikon, radishes like icestab the red earth of Heng Ha. Rain to atmospheric mist. River mist, you...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jason Emde
Jason Emde is a teacher, writer, undefeated amateur boxer, Prince enthusiast, and podcaster with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. A finalist for the CBC Creative...
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Endi Bogue Hartigan, oh orchid o’clock
hour entry:Gyms are Thanksgiving for clocksGyms are Thanksgiving for clocks, because people are only there for so long and there is the question of economy which is a mathematical relation to the...
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Arc: A magazine of poetry and poetry criticism #1 (spring 1978)
My short write-up on the first issue of Arc: A magazine of poetry and poetry criticism (spring 1978) is now online at the Arc Poetry Magazine website, as part of the celebrations around Arc Poetry...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anuja Varghese
Anuja Varghese (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated QWOC writer based in Hamilton, ON. Her work appears in The Malahat Review, Hobart, The Fiddlehead, and Plenitude Magazine, as well as the Best Women's...
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Jenny Molberg, The Court of No Record
REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY THEALPHA’S ATTORNEYThe MeToo poem was shocking, was it not? This was her dogged power of persuasion and not your actions, correct? The accused has written a poem about your...
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Allison Blevins, Cataloguing Pain
When my legs slowly paralyzed—heavy rain, wood, stone—I spent hours holding tight to the kitchen table trying to lift each knee into the pressing air. An editor once asked in an encouraging rejection...
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