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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mary Kasimor
Mary Kasimor has most recently been published in Yew Journal, Big Bridge, MadHat, Horse Less Review, Altered Scale, Word For/Word, Posit, Otoliths, EOAGH, and The Missing Slate. She has three previous...
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some (early) christmas : montebello,
With Christine's father and his wife Teri, Christine's brother Michael and his wife Alexis (and baby Duncan), we did our second annual Montebello over the weekend, for McNair Christmassy-type...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kerry-Lee Powell
Kerry-Lee Powell was born in Montreal and has lived in Antigua, Australia and the United Kingdom, where she received a BA in Medieval and Renaissance Literature and an MA in Writing and Literature from...
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Laura Farina, Some Talk of Being Human
A DEFINITION FOR SNOWWhen we went carollingI slipped a compass inside my mittensand as our voices rosein puffs abovethe white lawnsof our parents’ neighbourhoodyou broke into the descant – high notes...
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commentaries : Jacket2 : some notes on Canadian poetry,
Beginning in January, I will be posting three months' worth of commentaries on Canadian poets, poetry and poetics over at Jacket2, thanks to a kind solicitation by Julia Bloch (adding to the pieces...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stevie Howell
Stevie Howellwrites, studies psych, and works in a hospital. Read more at www.steviehowell.ca.1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your...
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new from above/ground press: Massey, beaulieu, McElroy + The Peter F. Yacht...
Strange Fits of Beauty & LightKaren Massey$4See link here for more informationtranscend transcribe transfigure transform transgressderek beaulieu$6See link here for more informationThe...
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some christmas (again), etcetera;
Given father-in-law was good enough to gift a camera this year, I was able to take pictures far better than the ones from Montebello [see my pre-Christmas Christmas post from Montebello, here]. Here...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is nearly two! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the online poetry journal Dusie (http://www.dusie.org/), edited/published by...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Wendy McGrath
Wendy McGrathis an Edmonton-based writer whose most recent novel North East appeared in October, 2014 (NeWest Press). The poetry collection, A Revision of Forward, is forthcoming fall, 2015 (NeWest...
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happy birthday, kate!
My lovely and talented first-born, Kate, turns twenty-four years old this afternoon (4:30pm). Where did the time go? I can barely remember. Was she ever this small? Happy Birthday!
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Jennifer Kronovet, Awayward
THEY PLANTEDa wall of treesto protect usfrom the desert—protect the samethoughts againand again from leaving.Clattering forgeof the place-mind:today today.Girls cry publiclyto penetratethe...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Biswamit Dwibedy
Biswamit Dwibedy [photo credit: Ashwini A Singh] is the author of Ozalid (1913 Press, 2010), and Hubble Gardener and Erode, both forthcoming from 1913 Press. He was born in Orissa, India, and lives in...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Briante, beaulieu, Kaminski,...
Anticipating the release next week of the fourth issue 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 the...
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"Selecting Phil Hall" at Jacket2
The first of my 'commentaries,'"Selecting Phil Hall," is now up at Jacket2! Keep your eye out for one to three pieces a week throughout January, February and March!
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A ‘best of’ (dusie) list of 2014 Canadian poetry books
It’s been a stellar year for Canadian poetry, and I haven’t even been able to talk about everything yet (given my baby-distraction of the past year, and a couple of titles I haven’t even seen yet), so...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joanna Lilley
Joanna Lilley’s first poetry collection, The Fleece Era, was published in 2014 by Brick Books. Her short story collection, The Birthday Books, will be published in 2015 by Hagios Press in their Strike...
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"Gil McElroy's cartography," at Jacket2
The second of my 'commentaries,'"Gil McElroy's cartography," is now online at Jacket2.
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