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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jamie Tennant
Jamie Tennantis a writer, author and broadcast(er) director based in Hamilton, ON. He has covered music pop culture both locally and nationally. His debut novelThe Captain of Kinnoull Hill was released...
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1.For a fraction of a moment,this layered barcode of homespun wisdom:a pinch of salt to keep new jeans from dimming; kitty litterin a tied-up sock to maintain an unfrosted...
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Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water
ORIGIN OF WATER IIas a child she wore a skirt of seagullsand was afraid of the dark called her mother godbecause what else could mother an ocean but god? she ate nankhataiand plaited her hair...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jasmine Gibson
Jasmine Gibson is a Philly Jawn and psych worker. She is interested in the liberation from the psychic bondages of racial capitalism.She is the author of chapbooks Drapetomania (Commune Editions,...
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Ongoing notes: late May, 2023: Emily Tristan Jones, Carolina Ebeid + Jordan...
There’s so much going on! There’s even a reading on Thursday in Ottawa with three above/ground press poets—Stuart Ross, William Vallières and Jessi MacEachern—hosted by Bardia Sinaee. And you saw the...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is more than ten years old, with new poems by more than five hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For those unaware, I've been curating this weekly poem series over at the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with danilo machado
Born in Medellín, Colombia, danilo machado (he/they) is a poet, curator, and critic living on occupied land interested in language’s potential for revealing tenderness, erasure, and relationships to...
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Ranjit Hoskote, Icelight
STILL LIFE WITH ORANGESAs boats shear past through the pearl-grey hazeour eyes widen to grasp a bowl of oranges. The prism of this moment sacrifices morethan flesh, pips and rind at the hour’s altar....
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Kate Cayley, Lent
GlassesWhen I think of Anne Sexton’s glasses, I imagine then not on her face but in the collection of the American billionaire who purchase them after she gassed herself in her garage. He keeps them...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Evan Kennedy
Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist. He is the author of I Am, Am I, to Trust the Joy That Joy Is No More or Less There Now Than Before (Roof Books), Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press), The Sissies...
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Carrie Oeding, If I Could Give You a Line
It is so easy. A man walks through a field and makes a line. What else could be made with no hands? Song. I’m becoming all hands, reaching so hard. I’m grabbing every instrument I can find to keep them...
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the above/ground press 30th anniversary fundraiser!
Across the thirty years-to-date of my poetry chapbook publisher above/ground press (b. July 9, 1993) I’ve worked hard to engage with numerous threads of literary activity, from multiple elements of...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carrie Oeding
Carrie Oeding's collection of poems If I Could Give You a Line won the Akron Poetry Prize and was published by University of Akron Press (2023). She is also the author of Our List of Solutions (42...
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Alicia Mountain, Four in Hand
Forefather, I swear I’m falling turbulent fromthe DC sky. I am sweatpalming pages therational blood you put in me cannot subsume.Loosen tie. Tighten seatbelt. On the tray tableI smooth convention...
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Spotlight series #86 : Maw Shein Win
The eighty-sixth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring San Francisco poet Maw Shein Win. The first...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amy Berkowitz
Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas, recently published by Total Joy and Éditions du Noroît, and Tender Points, published by Nightboat Books. Her writing and conversations have appeared in...
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T. Liem, SLOWS : TWICE
The second collection from Montreal-based poet T. Liem, following OBITS. (Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2018), is SLOWS : TWICE (Coach House Books, 2023), a collection of mirror-texts, with each poem...
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Michael Earl Craig, Iggy Horse
DRIVING HOMEHundreds of finches in roadresting, drinking from puddles.As I drive through themthey flutter up like sacredsoap-flakes eunuch mothsand I think of the gaudinessof poetry.The first I’ve...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jayson Keery
Jayson Keery is based in Western Massachusetts, where they completed their MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They are the author of The Choice is Real (Metatron Press, 2023) and...
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Jake Byrne, Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin
My review of Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin (A Buckrider Book / Wolsak and Wynn, 2023) by Jake Byrne is now up at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
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