Sheri Benning, The Season’s Vagrant Light
SlaughterI thought there’d always be a lustre of time,rich and slick like the animal’s oiled hide. I shot onefor its leather, another for the tender meat of its spine.One more for the fetor of estrus...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michael S. Begnal
Michael S. Begnal has published the collections Future Blues(Salmon Poetry, 2012) and Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), as well as the chapbook Mercury, the Dime (Six Gallery Press, 2005). His...
View ArticleThe Malahat Review : Publishing Tips : On Attention, by rob mclennan
I have a short essay posted as part of The Malahat Review's "Publishing Tips" series, composed as "On Attention."
View Article12 or 20 (small press) questions with William Kemp and Nicole Brewer on...
About William Kemp:William Kemp is one of the founding editors and poetry editor at words(on)pages, a Toronto-based micropress. He has been published in In/Words Magazine and online at The Hart House...
View ArticleQueen Mob's Teahouse: Lyndsay Kirkham interviews Drew Shannon and Nathan Page
As my tenure of interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the third interview is now online: an interview with Drew Shannon and Nathan Page, conducted by Lyndsay Kirkham. The first was an...
View ArticleU of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Leona Gom (1987-88)
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...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak is the author of the poetry collections Decency (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), Immigrant (BLP 2010), and a chapbook. With Jacqueline Kolosov she’s edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology...
View ArticleRachel Moritz, Borrowed Wave
Your Nana was ironing sheets in her Lemon Joy kitchen.Wings without body, linen snagged on the lip of her board. Was she a bird?‘I can smell the rubbers in the front entry as I sat on...
View Articletwo new poems : NOÖ Journal
I have two new poems up in the sixteenth issue of NOÖ Journal! Here and here.
View Article12 or 20 (small press) questions with Joshua Edwards on Canarium Books
Established in 2008 and sponsored in part by the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, Canarium Books is an independent press dedicated to publishing poetry by established and...
View Article6 x 6 : issues #32 + #33
I thought to writeand wrote a languagethat I use, I didn’t write to thatlanguage as in a letter or somethingbut one cannot be blamedfor thinking so. Isn’t it oddthe channels words cut open likelook...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matthew R. Loney
Matthew R. Loney is the author of That Savage Water (Exile Editions, 2014) – a collection of backpacker-themed short fiction. He was a finalist for the 2013 and 2014 Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction...
View ArticleU of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Fred Wah (1988-89)
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...
View ArticleMontana Ray, (guns & butter)
(smoking) (embarrassing) (as it is) (can’t help dragging ur sexuality to breakfast) (words come out sleazy)...
View Articlefrom "mmm" (poem) ; omniverse,
My poem-in-progress, "from mmm," is now online at OmniVerse, the online journal of Omnidawn, alongside a short essay-note on the piece. Thanks much, Omnidawn!
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize (co-judged by rob mclennan,
Announcing the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, Sponsored by the Inlandia InstituteOne National and one Regional Winner will each be awarded $1000 and book publication, and additional books may be chosen...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Corinne Wasilewski
Corinne Wasilewski was born and raised in Woodstock, New Brunswick but now makes her home in Sarnia, where she works as an occupational therapist. Her short stories have appeared in Front & Centre,...
View Articleottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal / 12th issue now online!
Ottawa’s annual pdf poetry journaledited by rob mclennanwww.ottawater.comThe twelfth issue of ottawater is now online, featuring new writing by Sylvia Adams, Susan J. Atkinson, John Barton, Frances...
View ArticleQueen Mob's Teahouse: Slow Poetry in America Newsletter: an interview with...
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahousecontinues, the fourthinterview is now online: an interview I conducted with Dale Smith, on the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter. Other...
View ArticleU of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Maria Campbell (1979-80)
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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