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SOME: seventh issue,
CreepsOld creepstaring at blooming,solid flesh, remembering home. (Rae Armantrout)I’m always interested to see the latest issue of Vancouver poet Rob Manery’s SOME magazine, and the seventh (summer...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Patti Grayson
Patti Grayson is the author of two award-nominated novels and one award-nominated short fiction collection. Her debut novel, Autumn, One Spring, was translated into German and was a popular book club...
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Lisa Olstein, Dream Apartment
The same racist neighbors who refer to the Obama presidency with a vile slur are the ones who hauled water to them, unasked, when their well went dry, who plowed the no-plow road twice a day during...
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Ongoing notes: TIFA’s Small Press Market (part one: Dale Martin Smith + Chris...
[see my four posts from the debut fair back in 2019 here and here and here and here] What a delightful fair this was! I was unable to make last year’s event due to my host falling sick with covid last...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Hannah Kezema
Hannah Kezema is an artist who works across mediums. She is the author of the debut collection, This Conversation is Being Recorded(Game Over Books, 2023), and the chapbook, three (Tea and Tattered...
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David Martin, Kink Bands
TURNER VALLEY OIL FIELDThey trotted out his anticline,capstone crust punctuatedby a wedge-thrust to the town’smakeover bonanza, whereseismic pricks could plotsecured flab, and flatter himunder...
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Ongoing notes: TIFA’s Small Press Market (part two: Lannii Layke + Janette...
the moment Ken Norris met ryan fitzpatrick[see part one of my notes here] Here’s another accounting of some of the titles I picked up at the most recent fair in Toronto! Toronto ON: I’m fascinated by...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Myronn Hardy
Myronn Hardyis the author of several books of poems. Aurora Americana is forthcoming, October 2023 (Princeton University Press). His poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares,...
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the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2023 (29th anniversary!) edition:...
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fairautumn 2023will be held on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road...
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rob mclennan, natalie hanna + Nina Mosall launch ARP titles in Winnipeg!
I'll be launching my latest poetry title, World's End, (2023) alongside ARP Books authors natalie hanna (lisan al'asfour; see my review of such here) and Nina Mosall (Bebakhshid) in Winnipeg on...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tom Cull
Born and raised in Huron County (Treaty 29 territory),Tom Cull currently resides in London, Ontario near the banks of Deshkan Ziibi on traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lunaapéewak...
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Lindsay Turner, The Upstate
what would it be like to stay here foreverwe went up a mountain and went up a fire towerthe seasons themselves felt annulled like a marriageit doesn’t matter if it was never gone through with...
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Michael Flatt, I Can Focus If I Try
Lost in the full stop of fascination, I see a fly land on the window screen and choose not to attack it. My own screen at present a darkened android face. Is this a failed lyric or a fuse? Please...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shannon Bramer
Shannon Bramer writes poems, plays and short fiction. She is the author of Climbing Shadows: Poems for Children, illustrated by Cindy Derby, and several poetry collections for adults, winning the...
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Mary Ruefle, The Book
THE BARKI took my dog to the lake, he stood at the water’s edge and barked, the echo of his bark came back and he barked at it, again and again he barked at his own echo, thinking there was another...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amy Ching-Yan Lam
Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. Her debut collection of poetry Baby Book, was published by Brick Books in spring 2023. Also available is Looty Goes to Heaven (2022, Eastside Projects). From...
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Erín Moure, Theophylline: an a-poretic migration via the modernisms of...
My review of Erín Moure's Theophylline: an a-poretic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo) (Toronto ON: House of Anansi Press, 2023) is now online at...
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Touch the Donkey : interviews with Betancourt, Reid, Cadsby, Kolewe, Amadon,...
Anticipating the release in a few days of the thirty-ninth 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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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cathy Stonehouse
Cathy Stonehouse (she/they) is a poet, writer, teacher and visual artist in Vancouver, BC. The author of a novel, The Causes, a collection of short fiction, Something About the Animal, and two previous...
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Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller, There Is Only One Ghost in the World
My mother was reading a book to me in bed when we saw the reflection of flames on my bedroom wall. Across the street, the neighbor’s house was burning. I remember being outside in my nightgown,...
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