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Snowbirding in Southern Florida: Boca Raton
monologueShe said, Snowbird, if nothing else, learn something from the past. Consider Ponce de León, seeking the Fountain of Youth. He was sure he knew where it was. So he got himself a commission from...
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Margaret Christakos' Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon
SPRINGFLUENCY: A Toronto Poetry Salon will run April 8 - June 17 (ten Monday nights) in Toronto, featuring 8 savoury guest poet-savants Lillian Allen, Oana Avasilichioaei, Adam Dickinson, Nyla Matuk,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Andrea Rexilius
Andrea Rexilius is the author of Half of What They Carried Flew Away(Letter Machine, 2012) and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation(Rescue Press, 2011). For four years she was assistant/associate...
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Profile of In/Words magazine, press + reading series: Open Book
My profile of Ottawa's In/Words, the umbrella for the journal, press and reading series, is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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FENCE magazine v 15, no 2: winter 2012-13
WOLVENAfter they made love the first time, things got strange. He peeped out through the window blinds, shook himself like a dog, and muttered something about the moon. Then he said, “You must chain me...
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Poetryworld, Louis Cabri
My short review of Louis Cabri'srecent poetry book, Poetryworld (CUE, 2010), is now up at Bywords.ca
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Heather Birrell
Heather Birrell is the author of two story collections, Mad Hope (Coach House, 2012) and I know you are but what am I? (Coach House, 2004). Her work has been honoured with the Journey Prize for short...
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Public Figures, Jena Osman
Holding a golden sword and an enormous Bible, Jonnie Ring stands on a high pedestal behind the faculty club at Temple University in North Philadelphia. On one side of the pedestal is a long...
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the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2013 edition: Saturday, June 15
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fairspring 2013 editionwill be happening Saturday, June 15in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anne Fleming
Anne Fleming’s latest book is Gay Dwarves of America (Pedlar 2012), whose stories netted some nice awards and nominations. She divides her time between Vancouver and Kelowna, where she teaches at UBC’s...
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Susan Howe, Sorting Facts; or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
I was originally asked to contribute an essay for a collection called Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film, edited by Charles Warren, with an Introduction by Stanley Cavell, because of a book I...
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pallaksch. pallaksch. : a poetry journal
In his 1846 account of a visit to Friedrich Hölderlin, Christoph Theodor Schwab documents the poet’s use of a nonsense phrase, ‘pallaksch, pallaksch’, in conversation with those seeking audience and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Seth Landman
Seth Landman lives in Massachusetts, and is a member of the Agnes Fox Press collective. Recent poems have appeared in Ghost Town, jubilat, Jellyfish, io, Lit, and other places. He has published a few...
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Ottawa's VERSeFest 2013 schedule now online: March 12-17
The schedule for Ottawa's third annual poetry festival VERSeFest is now online! Running from March 12-17, 2013, it features readings by some of the best Canadian and international contemporary poets,...
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A short interview with Barry McKinnon
I originally did this interview with Prince George poet Barry McKinnon for the Prince George issue of filling Station. The piece was posted in four sections on the filling Station blog (one, two, three...
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Ongoing notes: late February, 2013
You probably already know that we were in Boca Raton, Florida recently [see my report on such here], but here’s another photograph from such. Our final morning on the beach, in the midst of a spitting...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Andrew Szymanski
I was born and raised in Ottawa, ON, spent five years in Waterloo, ON (where I did my undergrad in English Lit), and have been living in Montreal (where I did my Master’s in Lit/Creative Writing) for...
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new from above/ground press: new titles by McElroy, Wilkinson, Hajnoczky +...
TwentiethGil McElroy$4See link here for more informationA Little Slash at the MeadowJoshua Marie Wilkinson $4See link here for more informationThe Double Bind DictionaryHelen Hajnoczky$4See link here...
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Profile of serif of nottingham editions, with a few questions
My profile of Gary Barwin's small press, serif of nottingham editions, is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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Fewer & Further Press: Monk, Duggan and Szymaszek
I recently received a package of chapbooks from a press I hadn’t previously heard of, Fewer & Further Press of Wendell MA, with titles including Andrew Mister’s Hotels(2007), Clark Coolidge’s...
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