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Ryan Eckes, Valu-Plus
no libssouth broad’s valu-plus is closing, everything must gotil day’s reflection is night’s, your passing face bartersfor itself against the blackness pulling thru us. threads:kids from south philly...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kristin P. Bradshaw
Kristin P. Bradshaw is a language-based writer and artist who works with poetry, collage, photography and soundscapes. Her current critical inquiries converge around fragmentation, uses of language in...
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Profile of The Rotary Dial, with a few questions
My profile of the monthly poetry journal The Rotary Dial, with a few questions answered by co-editor/publisher Alexandra Oliver, is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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All Lit Up Fall Preview: rob mclennan on Stan Dragland,
As part of the All Lit Up Fall Preview (week two), I did a short write-up ("publisher's picks") anticipating Stan Dragland's The Bricoleur & His Sentences (Pedlar Press, 2014), a book I've since...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kate Hargreaves
Kate Hargreaves is the author of one poetry book, Leak (BookThug) and one book of short prose Talking Derby (Black Moss). She has been published in literary magazines across Canada and the United...
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Fence magazine #29 (spring-summer 2014)
SECOND LANGUAGE INTERFERENCEWhen learning a third language, one often accidentally uses the second tongue, even if it’s barely rooted. In that moment of interference—there is a box in the mind that...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Martha Silano
Martha Silano is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and named a Noted Book...
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Ryan Pratt reviews Acceptance Speech (phafours, 2014)
That kind and attentive Ryan Pratt was good enough to review my mini-chapbook Acceptance Speech(phafours, 2014) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter. Thanks, Ryan! The poems are from the...
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a new poem, "domestic haibun #1," at small po[r]tions
I've a new poem, "domestic haibun #1," newly posted as part of the third issue of small po[r]tions. Damn that Chris Johnson for getting me rereading the haibun again. Damn him to hell.
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Kate Schapira, TOWN
FROM THE DREAMWALL: I dreamed I smashed all the dishes, all the jars. I stood at the factory fire and threw handfuls of corn into it, from the blackness outside it. By the time it’s a story there will...
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Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose (is a)
Oh, Gertrude Stein. Well, most folk know by now that Christine returns to work today, completing her maternity leave, which means I'm home full-time with our wee Rose (who turns a year old in two and a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shalan Joudry
Shalan Joudry is a writer, performance artist and storyteller whose poetry has appeared in The Nashwaak Review and Mi’kmaq Anthology II. She works as a cultural interpreter and community ecologist at...
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70 Canadian Poets, ed. Gary Geddes
My review of 70 Canadian Poets (Oxford, 2014), ed. Gary Geddes, is now online at Cordite Poetry Review.
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Redell Olsen, Film Poems
My short review of Redell Olsen's Film Poems (Los Angeles, CA: Les Figues, 2014) is now online at The Small Press Book Review.
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Profile of Pearl Pirie's phafours, with a few questions,
My profile of Pearl Pirie's phafours (with a few questions), which will be exhibiting at both this weekend's ottawa small press book fair and the upcoming Meet the Presses' 2014 Indie Market, is now...
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short story: Opening, via The New Quarterly,
My short story "Opening" is now online at The New Quarterly, as a preview for issue #132! See the direct link to the story here. (The issue also includes an interview Claire Tacon conducted with myself...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anne Germanacos
Anne Germanacos’s collection of short stories, In the Time of the Girls, was published by BOA Editions in 2010. Her novel, Tribute, published by Rescue Press, appears in 2014. Together with her...
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ryan fitzpatrick, Fortified Castles
SNOWFLAKE CHILDRENUsing this technique, two children can beseparated at birth without any emotions.So why does the allegory survive while thesoulless creep still walks the streets?Near the tops of the...
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Pte. Swain, J.J
Along the lines of what I posted last year on my great-grandfather, Joseph Joe Swain (my mother's maternal grandfather), and the year prior, a WWI-era letter to my great-grandmother, Mamie Swain, from...
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An Interview with George Stanley : The Conversant,
My interview with Vancouver poet George Stanley, author of the new North of California St. (New Star Books, 2014), is now online at The Conversant.
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