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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brent van Staalduinen
Brent van Staalduinen lives, works, and finds his voice in Hamilton. SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, his novel of urban magical realism, will be published by Invisible Publishing in the spring of 2016. His stories...
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Nicole Markotić, whelmed
bandonto wild. wild, bodacious, bandit, and braded. a rear deposit, posited. trade for trade, and weary, and eerily, and –ily. give up colour and fluenced broadsides. this rag, this peppered snag....
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Tim Lilburn (1999-2000)
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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Anne Cecelia Holmes, Dead Year
Dead YearTonight I pay attentionto my energetic state.Reframe, reframe,prickly feelings aside.I turn on the fireuntil my eyes adjust,expand to let a pathscorch through allof me. All of medying in fake...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Teri Vlassopoulos
Teri Vlassopoulos is the author of the short story collection, Bats or Swallows (2010), and a novel, Escape Plans (2015), both with Invisible Publishing. Her fiction has appeared in Room Magazine,...
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Jordan Abel, Injun
a)he played injun in gods countrywhere boys proved themselves cleandumb beasts who could cut fireout of the whitest sandhe played english across the trailwhere girls turned plum wildgarlic and strained...
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Introducing: Aoife Lydia Judith McLennan, b. April 16
Our new little girl, Aoife [“eee-fah”] Lydia Judith McLennan, was born Saturday, April 16 at 2:21pm at Ottawa’s Montfort Hospital. Due on April 18th(or 21st, depending on which version you believe),...
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rob mclennan interviewed by Oscar Martens
I was interviewed last week by Vancouver writer Oscar Martens, now posted up on his blog. Much thanks!I've actually been recently collecting a series of links to a variety of online interviews with me,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tony Iantosca
Tony Iantosca is a person who writes poems and teaches English composition and creative writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Poems have appeared in 6x6, Lungfull!, ThoseThatThis, Death...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Marilyn Dumont (2000-01)
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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Sandra Doller and Ben Doller, The Yesterday Project
Yesterday yesterday started. Movement in the bed, chronological. Fast morning and warm tea, getting colder in the carafe. A new project, a reality show. Each day, a performance of living. Each record,...
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Ongoing notes: late April, 2016
Given our new baby distractions, I thought it might be worth going back through the past few months and acknowledging the books over the past two years-plus that I started to review, but, for whatever...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Elee Kraljii Gardiner [photo credit: Paul Joseph] directs Thursdays Writing Collective, a non-profit organization of more than 150 writers in Vancouver, Canada. She is coeditor with John Asfour of V6A:...
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Neil Flowers on Northern Comfort (Commoners’ Press, 1973)
this interview was conducted over email in April 2016 as part of a project to document Ottawa literary publishing. see my bibliography-in-progress of Ottawa literary publications, past and present...
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Profile on Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca, Open Book: Ontario
My profile on Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca (featuring, among other pieces, michèle provost's "name that painting") is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carrie Etter
Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etterlived for thirteen years in southern California before moving to England in 2001. She has published three collections of poetry, The Tethers (Seren, 2009),...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Thomas Wharton (2002-3)
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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Matthew Henriksen, The Absence of Knowing
Bring the fatted worm to the altarI will pin down the skinThe body openWhat you imaginedAn orphan cannot say her father is no manA worm cannot sayNo No Don’t do thisBut the fatted baby will sayWhen she...
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Mark McCawley (January 1964 - April 19, 2016)
Edmonton poet, fiction writer, reviewer, editor, and micro-press publisher Mark McCawley has died. [A 2008 photo of McCawley (in the background) from my Factory (West) Reading Series; see the post it...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Doretta Lau
Doretta Lau's [photo credit: Ming Kai Leung] debut short story collection, How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (Nightwood Editions, 2014), was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book...
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