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Happy 25th Birthday, Kate!
My first-born turns twenty-five years old today (at 4:30pm, to be exact), even as she and her two-year-old sister Rose await the arrival of the third (and final) sibling. Happy Birthday, Kate! Oh,...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is nearly three years old, with one hundred and forty-three new poems and counting! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the...
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Fred Wah, Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991
I paint this broader picture, or rescaling, of Canadian literature because Fred Wah’s poetry, no matter how localized it is in the particulars of life, landscape, language, and perception, has also...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Magie Dominic
Magie Dominic, Newfoundland writer and artist, received the Langston Hughes award for poetry and studied at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her memoir, The Queen of Peace Room, from Wilfrid Laurier...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Gary Geddes (1976-77)
For the sake of the fortieth anniversary of the writer-in-residence program (the longest lasting of its kind in Canada) at the University of Alberta, I have taken it upon myself to interview as many...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Zelazo, Hajnoczky, MacLeod,...
Anticipating the release next week of the eighth 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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David James Miller, CANT
calper limns as peal—syncretic dictiona raise / collect as landscape figurescontingent grammar as—–ponicsacral fragments / sloughcondensedtracing / as cant arcsAfter a couple of chapbooks to his...
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Gustave Morin, Clean Sails
rules were established. i evolved the seemingly arbitrary number of one hundred and elevenpoems out of a close reading of Nelson Ball’s annotations to bpNichol’s konfessions of an elizabethan fan...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson's 44 page chapbook The Hospital Poems has recently been published by Bookthug. His poetry has been published in such journals as Rampike, b after c, and House Organ. His critical...
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A ‘best of’ list of 2015 Canadian poetry books
Once again I’ve felt the need to put together another “best of” list of Canadian poetry books, which is now online over at the dusie blog (see prior lists here: 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011). Again, this...
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Samuel Andreyev, The Relativistic Empire
RECURSION COOKIESsend knives down the phrase orkick cows to gel the steaks togetheris a method forgetting near thepad and launch this mislaid thoughtwill pull leaves a part lacks butentry since...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Daphne Marlatt (1985-86)
For the sake of the fortieth anniversary of the writer-in-residence program (the longest lasting of its kind in Canada) at the University of Alberta, I have taken it upon myself to interview as many...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Stephanie Ford
Stephanie Fordis the author of All Pilgrim (Four Way Books, 2015). She is a recipient of the Hopwood Award as well as fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and the Community of Writers at Squaw...
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Andrea Baker, Each Thing Unblurred is Broken
Routine Is Not a CradleShips seamed the ocean, overusedand sick on consolationthey warmed themselves with harm.I will lay me down on the tablein the cabin of a boat.I will glowlike a screen,thirstat my...
View Articlefwd: Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in Canada : CALL...
Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in Canada.CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:Following an interdisciplinary conference at Brock University in October 2015, we invite submissions for a...
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Todd Colby, Splash State
Sit StillWhat morning does is trick youinto thinking someone’s just leftto go to the bathroom, or is drinkingtea at the big table in the living room,or is simply thinking of you while theystand in...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with James Lindsay
James Lindsay is co-owner of Pleasence Records. His first collection of poetry, Our Inland Sea, has recently been published by Wolsak & Wynn's Buckrider Books.1 - How did your first book change...
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Sunrise with Sea Monsters : rob mclennan (poem)
I've a new poem posted as part of Paul Vermeersch's latest project, "Sunrise with Sea Monsters."
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Ray Smith (1986-87)
For the sake of the fortieth anniversary of the writer-in-residence program (the longest lasting of its kind in Canada) at the University of Alberta, I have taken it upon myself to interview as many...
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Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
I started keeping a diary twenty-five years ago. It’s eight hundred thousand words long.I didn’t want to lose anything. That was my main problem. I couldn’t face the end of a day without a record of...
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