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Profile of N.W. Lea, now online at Open Book: Ontario,
My profile of Ottawa poet N.W. Lea is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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Snowbirding in South Florida: Boca Raton (and Key West), part two:
We recently spent ten days is South Florida, spending time at Christine’s father’s condo [see my report on the first part of our trip, here], now back in Canada since Wednesday, late late late; back to...
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Patrick White (September 15, 1948-March 1, 2014)
The third and (so far) final Poet Laureate of Ottawa (1987-1990), Patrick White, has died after an extended battle with cancer. This note appeared yesterday from Patrick's daughter, Jody:Hello All......
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rob Schlegel
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields, winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and January Machine, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2014. His poetry and criticism have appeared in...
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new from above/ground press: Schapira, Schmaltz, mclennan, Rosenthal + Tourbin,
OVERHEARD WHILE HIDING FROM THE SUNKate Schapira$4See link here for more informationMITSUMI ELEC. CO. LTD.: keyboard poems Eric Schmaltz$4See link here for more informationfrom Hark: a journalrob...
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A short interview with Sandra Ridley
conducted over email from March 28 – June 17, 2013 This interview originally appeared in filling Station #58. Thanks much to the editorial board for their ongoing support.Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley has...
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Black Warrior Review 40.1
HEATA row of little ovens waits on the cliff.I can’t wait to get inside.Mother me, dry heat.Bake me into a baby. (Emily Kendal Frey)While in Florida, we wandered through the occasional bookstore, and I...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mercedes Eng
Mercedes Eng is a writer and teacher in Vancouver, Coast Salish territory. Her first book, Mercenary English (CUE Books, 2013) “combines tart insights into gender and racial relations, and a...
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Julie Joosten, Light Light
Quanta of light move in waves over the sea, move the sea to the horizon.Purple is a horizon extending the sky.It seems not an earth-sky.To think of attention as moving without trying to be moved to...
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Lola Lemire Tostevin, Singed Wings
My short review of Lola Lemire Tostevin's Singed Wings (Talonbooks, 2013) is now online at Arc poetry magazine.
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My Writing Process—blog tour,
Another damned meme. Today is Blog Tour Day, apparently. This blog tour is where writers and authors answer questions about their writing process, and I was tagged by poet E.E. Nobbs, who wrote about...
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Sarah Gridley, Loom
My review of Sarah Gridley's Loom(Omnidawn, 2013) is now online at Jacket2.
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Grain magazine 41.2: matchbook
Frank O’Hara smokes cigarettes and avoids me. Frank O’Hara has adapted his party-mingling so that he’s always on the balcony of Grace Hartigan’s apartment when I’m in the front hallway, always in the...
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Profile of Michael Dennis, poet and blogger,
My profile of Michael Dennis, Ottawa poet and blogger, is now up at Open Book: Ontario.
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Bill Knott: 1940-2014
American poet Bill Knott has died. There is a lovely obituary for him by American poet Elisa Gabbert, posted here on Wednesday, and another, posted yesterday on Coldfront magazine, and a further at...
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Today is my forty-fourth birthday,
Here’s a photo of myself and niece Emma earlier this week at the Snow exhibit at the Museum of Civilization. As part of her March Break, she spent a couple of days with us, and the four of us spent a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Bartone
David Bartone’s first book, Practice on Mountains, was selected for the 2013 Sawtooth Poetry Prize by Dan Beachy-Quick, for publication with Ahsahta Press (2014). Poems have appeared in Colorado...
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Maxine Chernoff, Without
[without years]reciprocity vanisheslike a species of birdcalling aloneyou arealonethe roofof the mouthis witnessedsaying a wordthat dropslike a letteruncurlingfrom liquidthe mediumof lighthas no...
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FENCE magazine #28
In any other dungeon, I’d trypirate and native, landlord and tenant,anything but this—master and servant’s too Depeche Mode.That’s easy, the eighties’ garishness.Let’s be Gorean instead,feudalism’s...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Bianca Stone
BIANCA STONE grew up in Vermont, and graduated with an MFA from NYU's Creative Writing Program. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House/Octopus Books, 2014), several poetry and...
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