Susanne Dyckman interviews rob mclennan at OmniVerse
I was interviewed recently by American poet Susanne Dyckman for OmniVerse. Thanks so much!My ongoing list of interviews conducted with over the years (at least, the ones that live online) now lives here.
View ArticleSusan Briante, The Market Wonders
The theoretical physicist says, “I’ve always wanted to find the rules that governed everything.”The theoretical physicist says, “Deep laws emerge.”I have a friend who asks about “truth” in poetry....
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sarah Bernstein
Sarah Bernsteinis from Montreal. Her writing has been appeared in places like The Malahat Review, CV2, Contemporary Women's Writing, Room, Prairie Fire and Numero Cinq, and has been shortlisted for the...
View ArticleU of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Myrna Kostash (2003-4)
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 ArticleSusan Holbrook, Throaty Wipes
WITHOUT YOUI wander lonely as a clodin a bondless ble sky.I’m living in a bbble,the little enginethat cold.I miss being a nit.Me and my bigmoth, devoringevery planet y’allwere in. OnlyMars and Earthcan...
View Articlea new short story,
A new short story, "Seven impossible things," is now online at Synapse.
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with David James Miller
David James Miller is the author of CANT, and of the chapbooks As Sequence, and Facts & Other Objects. His poetry and critical writing may be found, or is forthcoming in: Jubilat, YellowField,...
View ArticleKen Stange (September 18, 1946 - May 9, 2016)
North Bay poet Ken Stange has died, after a brief illness. Extensive biographical and bibliographical information can be discovered via http://www.kenstange.com.As poet and critic Gil McElroy posted...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michael Murray
When Michael Murray was a child he could fly. Now that he is a man, a man who cannot grow a beard, he rides a bicycle, as riding a bicycle is the way that people in the city live. Michael is of the...
View ArticleLea Graham, This End of the World: Notes to Robert Kroetsch
On CrowsLast Thursday, the light at the ridge above that bend in the Hudson spread like Dreamsicles in July. Crows valentined dumpsters. Earth called cadence below. Lamps floated stem-less, sturgeon...
View ArticleU of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Lynn Coady (2008-9)
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 ArticleQueen Mob's Teahouse: Vanesa Pacheco and T.A. Noonan : On Translation and...
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, theninth interview is now online: a conversation between Vanesa Pacheco [picutred] and T.A. Noonan, "On Translation and...
View Articleabove/ground press: some backlist (and rarities!
Given the above/ground press archive is together for the first time, I've been digging through boxes and discovering titles I thought either completely out-of-print or very close. It was suggested to...
View ArticleDennis Cooley, departures
because it does not hum where it turnsbecause it does not ring like glassbecause it does not sound in diapasonbecause it does not want to let things straybecause it tries to bind all thingsbecause it...
View ArticleAuthor questions for rob mclennan : Vanessa Cimon-Lambert
On March 8, 2016, I answered some interview questions posed to me by one of Natalee Caple’s students over there at Brock University. This is actually the second interview posed by one of her students...
View Articlethe ottawa small press fair, spring 2016 edition: June 18
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fairspring 2016 editionwill be held on Saturday, June 18, 2016 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michael Prior
Michael Prior’s poems have appeared in numerous journals across North America and the UK. A past winner of The Walrus’s Poetry Prize (2014), Grain’s Short Grain Contest (2014), and Matrix’s Lit Pop...
View ArticleU of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Shani Mootoo (2001-2)
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 ArticleHelen Hajnoczky, Magyarázni
NemNo, Hungarian is not a gendered language,but no, you do not want to play Joseph in thegoddamned Christmas play again this year!No, you’re not jealous that no on asks her whichbathroom key she wants,...
View ArticleProfile on Monty Reid, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario,
My profile of Ottawa poet Monty Reid, anticipating his Meditatio Placentae (Brick Books, 2016) [launching this week in Ottawa via The TREE Reading Series], is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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