12 or 20 (second series) questions with Chelsea Rooney
Chelsea Rooney is the author of Pedal, a debut novel published in 2014 with Caitlin Press and a finalist for the 2015 Amazon First Novel Award. CBC Books named Chelsea Rooney a WRITER TO WATCH in2015....
View ArticleSarah Blake, Mr. West
A Day at the Mall Reminds Me of AmericaRecently, my 14-year-old sister was approached at the mall to see if she’d be interested in working at Hollister, or Abercrombie and Fitch, or American Eagle. I...
View Articlethe ottawa small press fair, fall 2015 edition: November 7
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fairfall 2015 editionwill be held on Saturday, November 7, 2015 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Soraya Peerbaye
Soraya Peerbaye's first collection, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (Goose Lane, 2009) was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her work has also appeared in Red Silk: An...
View ArticleEtgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
When I was a kid, my parents took me to Europe. The high point of the trip wasn’t Big Ben or the Eiffel Tower but the flight from Israel to London—specifically, the meal. There on the tray were a tiny...
View ArticleThe Al Purdy A-Frame Association Call for applications, and "Al Purdy Was Here"
The Al Purdy Association has just announced Call for Applications for 2017 residencies. Applications are due October 16th. For details see www.alpurdy.caWe are also pleased to announce that the...
View Article(another) weekend in sainte-adele,
We spent the bulk of the long weekend, again, at Christine's mother's wee cottage, nestled in the hills and the wood an hour or so north of Montreal. Christine worked on preparing our fall Chaudiere...
View ArticleOn the Art of the Literary Interview : rob mclennan,
I was interviewed recently by Julienne Isaacs for The Town Crier, the blog of The Puritan Magazine, "On the Art of the Literary Interview."Thanks much, Julienne!
View ArticleCollier Nogues, The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground
The road at early dawn is still here—I am in the future. I move my hand to raise its flag in the...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jehanne Dubrow
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently Red Army Red and Stateside (Northwestern UP, 2012 and 2010). Her first book, The Hardship Post (2009), won the Three...
View Articlefwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence
CALL FOR PAPERSSpeaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence20-22 October 2016University of Calgaryhttp://speakinghermind.ca/How are women engaging with public discussion and debate in...
View Articleabove/ground press at twenty-two
My profile on above/ground press at twenty-two is now online at Open Book: Ontario. And have I mentioned that subscriptions are now available for 2016?
View ArticleEric Amling, From the Author’s Private Collection
Some lines I cut as the author of this book:The Haitian poet Roumer admires an ass so spectacularIt is like a gorgeous basked brimming with fruits and meatWhen I’m out walking I think of thisRationing...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Simeon Berry
Simeon Berrylives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughsharesand received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. His first book, Ampersand...
View ArticleSparks magazine (1977-1978): bibliography, and an interview
this interview was conducted over email from August to September 2015 as part of a project to document Ottawa literary publishing. see my bibiliography-in-progress of Ottawa literary publications, past...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, where she now lives with her son. Her books include The Conjoined (forthcoming in Fall 2016), The Better Mother, a finalist for the City...
View Articlean experiment : rob's patreon page,
I'm not sure if it might come to anything, but I'm experimenting with a Patron page; basically, a way for myself as a working artist to perhaps get closer to a living wage, in exchange for exclusive...
View ArticleThe Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, translated by Sawako Nakayasu
PLEASE COVER ME WITH DIRT EVERY YEARListlessly walking silently,Clinging to the honeysuckle on the hedgeCrouched beside the roadO, decrepit old winter – The hair on your head has driedAnd those who...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carrie Hunter
Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edits the chapbook press, ypolita press, is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books, and co-curates the...
View ArticleDaniel Scott Tysdal, Fauxccasional Poems
Tell Me HowComposed by Buddy Holly, January 24, 1986, for his wife Maria Elena Holly, on the occasion of his flight home from New York after his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
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