12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan works and plays in and around Calgary, Alberta. He lives with his wife and daughter, a bossy cat and a curious rabbit. He is the winner of the Alberta Views short story contest. Tim’s work has...
View ArticleTouch the Donkey : new interviews w Désil, Ballard, Rae, Tomash + Meyerson,
Anticipating the release next week of the thirty-eighth of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with contributors to...
View ArticleJon Cone, LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT PT 1 and LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT PT 2
my paired review of Canadian expat poet Jon Cone's chapbooks LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT PT 1 and LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT PT 2, both of which appeared last year with Greying Ghost Press, is now online at...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Hannah Green
Hannah Green is a writer and poetry editor atCV2. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She lives in Winnipeg.1 -How did your first book change your life?...
View ArticleLaila Malik, archipelago,
my review of archipelago (Book*hug, 2023) by Laila Malik is now online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
View ArticleMonica Youn, From From
One figure is female, the other is male.Both are contained.One figure is mythical, the other historical.They occupy different millennia, different continents.But both figures are considered Asian—one...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Hlava Ceballos
Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a finalist for the National...
View ArticleSpotlight series #87 : Daniel Sarah Karasik
The eighty-seventh 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 writer, playwright and editor...
View ArticleLucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, The Telaraña Circuit
i am looking for the form she said or the raw material specifically from the plane of its existence it was a search for a perceptual practice like the sensation of matter over the surface of your...
View Article2023 Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia : Sunday, Sept. 10
We are thrilled to be hosting our 4th Promise Walk for Preeclampsia Canada in Ottawa! The Promise Walk for Preeclampsia™ began in 2005 by our sister organization, Preeclampsia Foundation. These walk...
View ArticleKimberly Alidio, Teeter
Everyone who happens to live wheremy father’s family happened to live at the time ofnaming has names beginningwith the same letter as mine. A namecuts off the unruly sequence ofdiscovering a new thing...
View ArticleChen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
my review of Chen Chen's latest, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(BOA Editions, 2023), is now online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
View Articlesome updates: poems, interview, review, substack etc.
I often forget to include such things, so I'll mention that I had poems up recently atOlney and Pinhole Poetry and Horseshoe Literary Magazine, was interviewed by Pinhole Poetry as well, and there was...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kimberly Ann Southwick
Kimberly Ann Southwick is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Jacksonville State University. Her debut full-length poetry collection, ORCHID ALPHA, is out via Trembling Pillow...
View ArticleEric Sneathen, Don’t Leave Me This Way
You Say to the Boy Open Your EyesWind. Weather. Of the deep rigging. RepeatedlyHow frail our ship our waves. There. ThreadOf sails on the lips. Held steady. I rub my eyes.Love ahead. The bad weather....
View ArticleParallel investigation
1.Does the appearance of emerging authorsuggest the alternate , of retreat? 2.I rarely daydream in rhyme.Degrees, experience, a polished stream...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mike Lala
Mike Lala is the author of The Unreal City (Tupelo Press, 2023), Exit Theater (Colorado Prize for Poetry, 2016), and several chapbooks, including Points of Return (Ghost Proposal, 2023). Poems appear...
View ArticleEleni Sikelianos, Your Kingdom
Our cells recall ancient chemical joys and traumas, pre-life, while our limbs remember salamanders. A poem remembers our past in language and posits a future in the simplest sense, like a to-do note,...
View ArticleDan Kaplan, 2.4.18
VISITORS ON A CLEAR DAYa visitor can imagine spring,the arcades discoloredand sun-roasted, some breadand a mushroom, heavy and round,birdsong a hole in the middlewhere dampness came,whispered and...
View ArticleTHE ABOVE/GROUND PRESS 30TH ANNIVERSARY READING/LAUNCH/PARTY!
celebrating THIRTY YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly thirteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents:readings and chapbook launches by:Jennifer Baker (Ottawa ON)nina...
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