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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ashok Mathur
Ashok Mathuris a writer and educator who works collaboratively with artists and academics and activists. He directs the Centre for innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers...
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I now know my birth mother’s name
[photo of me; on back, "new great grandchild, ten and a half months," which suggest my grandmother Page sent this snapshot to her parents] Thanks to the combination of shifting provincial rules on...
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The Capilano Review 3.19: Narrative
NB [Nicole Brossard]: In How Writing is Written, Stein says that each generation has to take care of daily life and anyone being creative is not in advance of his or her time. We are always...
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Some notes on Lisa Jarnot's 'Sea Lyrics' on Jacket2
My essay, "Some notes on Lisa Jarnot's 'Sea Lyrics,'" is now online at Jacket2.
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Rae Armantrout, Just Saying
COLDWhat does it taketo stay warm?Fire in a cage,gnawing on wood,throwing spriteafter spriteoffto extinction.Each baby’s soulis cutein the same way.Rapt attentionon a stalk,surprised by thirst.“What...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rachel Lebowitz
Rachel Lebowitz (Photo credit Trevor Cole) is the author of Hannus (Pedlar Press, 2006) which was shortlisted for the 2007 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize and the Edna Staebler Award for...
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Little Red Leaves: Thomas-Glass, DuPlessis and Kaminski
“[D]esigned and sewn by Dawn Pendergast in Houston, Texas,” the little red leaves textile series produces some of the most attractive poetry chapbooks I’ve seen in a while [see my previous reviews of...
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a new poem in konundrum engine literary review,
I've a new poem, "Self-portrait, with infant," now online at the Konundrum Engine Literary Review.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Christine McNair
Christine McNair's first book Conflict was published by BookThug in 2012. She works as a book conservator in Ottawa and is one of four hosts for CKCU Lit Landscapes. She was shortlisted for the 2011...
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Glossolalia, Marita Dachsel
Delcena Diadamia Johnson ShermanHis floods. His tornadoes.Plagues. Drought.Over nothing.It’s never personal.A cracked bowl. Torn pants.Dropped food. Smeared shit.Five crisp crescentson a chubby thigh;a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Erik Lindner
Erik Lindner (photo credit: ©gezett.de) has published four books of poetry in his native Dutch: Tramontane (Perdu, 1996), tong en trede (‘Tongue and step, De Bezige Bij 2000), Tafel (‘Table’, De Bezige...
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Profile of William Hawkins, Ottawa's most dangerous poet,
My profile of William Hawkins, Ottawa's most dangerous poet, is now up at Open Book: Ontario. Hawkins is one of two recipients of this year's inaugural VERSE Ottawa Hall of Honour, to be presented on...
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Today is my forty-third birthday,
All this writing about me, it’s most unseemly. But when thousands gather in the stroll garden for the three best days of cherry blossoms, do they not see...
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Franzlations [the imaginary Kafka parables], Gary Barwin, Craig Conley and...
My short review of Franzlations [the imaginary Kafka parables] (New Star Books, 2011) by Gary Barwin, Craig Conley and Hugh Thomas is now online at Bywords.ca.
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Open Letter, Fifteenth Series, Number 2: Olson @ the Century
Despite the occultation of Olson’s reputation, a return to his ideas and writing is more urgent than ever. What are the stakes of polis in an imminent world of neo-Liberalism, the quantitative...
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View the Premiere Screening of Robert McTavish's "The Line Has Shattered" on...
The Line Has Shattered, a documentary film by Robert McTavish on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, is being premiered on Thursday, March 21st at 7:30pm at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre,...
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seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics #6
the sixth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics is now online!Sixth Issue: Winter 2013Cameron Anstee - for VERSeFest: ‘this is the kind of poetry we want’Nathan Dueck - from Th...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jessica Hiemstra
Jessica Hiemstra is a visual artist and writer living in Toronto. She's is the winner of two Malahat Review Open Season Awards (2011) and the Room Magazine Annual Poetry Contest (2009). She's published...
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Dara Wier, You Good Thing
NOT A VERBAL EQUIVALENTYou said one thing as a way of not saying something else.You wrote something so that other things wouldn’t be written.You drew me a picture of one thing and not anything else.I’m...
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From the Eye to the Alphabet: Victor Coleman’s ivH: An Alphamath Serial
My short review of Victor Coleman's ivH: An Alphamath Serial(BookThug, 2012) is now online at Arc Poetry Magazine.
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