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WHAT IS YOUR FRAGMENT IV: rob mclennan responds
As Jennifer K. Dick explains: "What is YOUR fragment? Poets explain this technique as it appears in their books (see original conversation post HERE for the questions and a response by Lisa Pasold HERE...
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The Capilano Review 3.22 / Winter 2014
TB:How Should a Person Be? is very much a novel that deals with the idea of contemporaneity, making visible your present place in the world. We can look at the question, How should a person be? in...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Suzannah Showler
Suzannah Showler's writing has appeared places, including The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, and Joyland. She was a finalist for the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and winner of the...
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Sina Queyras, M x T
Dear Regret, my leaning this morning, my leather foot, want of stone, age old, my burnished and bruised, hair lingering, hand caked, spongy as November, my dear Relentless, my dear Aging, your voice...
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filling Station #57 : showcase of experimental writing by women
Vancouver For Beginners #4: Public TransitWalk into the people rivering stripped to the waist, never look back, door lasered neat in aluminum surf, flesh striving to dinner tables, sloughing intent. We...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kathryn Mockler
Kathryn Mockler is a writer and filmmaker. She is the author of The Saddest Place on Earth (DC Books, 2012) and Onion Man(Tightrope Books, 2011). Currently, she is the Toronto editor of Joyland: a hub...
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NOW AVAILABLE: The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books)--and the...
My collection of short, short stories, The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014) is now available, with an Ottawa launch at The Manx Pub (as part of David O'Meara's Plan 99 Reading...
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Barbara Tomash, Arboreal
the trees we wanted to climb—we wantedto taste, see how they tear themselves up at the rootsnear, very near ripening, these sleek purple fruitsbut what are they called again? and is the moist...
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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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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laurie D Graham
Laurie D Graham grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and now lives in London, Ontario, where she is a writer, teacher, reviewer, and editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. Her first book of poetry, Rove,...
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Phil Hall, Notes from Gethsemani
The mouth wide open in wonder & amazement*I have killed a bug on the page I am readingLike a shooting star—the smear of its innards—starting amid the text—& stretching into the white marginI do...
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Sommer Browning, Backup Singers
I saw many many clocks, the clockman said of his first day. As the butcher cuts meat, the architect hides the sun; hesitancy blooms urge. Tonight, there is a horse in the painting above your bed....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Elizabeth Treadwell
Elizabeth Treadwell lives and writes in Oakland, California, where she was born. Her books include Chantry (Chax, 2004) and Birds & Fancies (Shearsman, 2007). Posy: a charm almanack & atlas is...
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On Writing : an occasional series
Has it been a year already? It's been twelve months since I discovered (thanks to Sarah Mangold) the website for the NPM Daily, and absolutely loved the short essays presented on a variety of subjects...
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new from above/ground press: Ladouceur, Pirie + The Peter F Yacht Club,
LIME KILN QUAY ROADBen Ladouceursecond printing!$4See link here for more informationvertigoheel for the dillyPearl Pirie$4See link here for more informationPeter F. Yacht Club #20 / VERSeFest 2014...
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Six Questions with Elizabeth Bachinsky: 2014 Pat Lowther Award Shortlist,
From now until early June, I’m featuring short interviews with the authors of the six shortlisted titles for each of the three awards run through The League of Canadian Poets– the Raymond Souster...
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shortlisted for the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Artist Award;
I was officially shortlisted on Wednesday night [here I am listening intently to one of the announcements in one of their photos] for the Council for the Arts in Ottawa's annual Mid-Career Artist...
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Suzannah Showler, Failure to Thrive
NOTES ON INTEGRITYWhat if we stopped predicting the weatherand agreed to run it ragged?To demonstrate: a dramatizationof a pigeon being hit by a car, except in thisinstance, the pigeon wins. Once a...
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Profile of Danielle K.L. Grégoire, now online at Open Book: Ontario,
My profile of Danielle K.L. Grégoire, inducted alongside Amanda Earl into the second annual VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour at the fourth annual VERSeFest, is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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Six Questions with Julie Joosten: 2014 Gerald Lampert Award Shortlist,
From early April to early June, I’m featuring short interviews with the authors of the six shortlisted titles for each of the three awards run through The League of Canadian Poets– the Raymond Souster...
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