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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...

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Touch 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...

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Jon 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...

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12 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?...

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Laila Malik, archipelago,

my review of archipelago (Book*hug, 2023) by Laila Malik is now online at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.

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Monica 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...

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12 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...

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Spotlight 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...

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Lucía 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...

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2023 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...

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Kimberly 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...

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Chen 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.

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some 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...

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12 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...

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Eric 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....

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Parallel investigation

 1.Does the appearance of               emerging authorsuggest the alternate                    , of retreat?  2.I rarely daydream                        in rhyme.Degrees, experience, a polished stream...

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12 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...

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Eleni 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,...

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Dan 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...

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THE 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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