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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Scherezade Siobhan
Scherezade Siobhan is a Jungian scarab moonlighting as a clinical psychologist. Her writing has been published worldwide, has been nominated for Pushchart Prize as well as Best of the Net anthology and...
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Sarah Burgoyne, Saint Twin
(A PRECARIOUS LIFE) ON THE SEAthe ocean you grew up watching has decided, finally, to take you in. “where else was i going to go?” you ask, setting off. it spews squid and minnows into your little boat...
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My writing day : Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Inspired by this, I decided to write up my own.7:30am: Awake, to toddler footfalls; the length of hallway. Newborn squeaks.7:45am: As Christine dresses toddler, newborn assists as I prepare cereal for...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amanda Nadelberg
Amanda Nadelbergis the author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore, Bright Brave Phenomena and, most recently, Songs from a Mountain (Coffee House Press) and a chapbook called The Bartleby Poems (The Song...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Richard Van Camp (2011-12)
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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Ongoing notes: late May, 2016
Further to our baby distractions, I thought I should add a second entry of brief reviews, acknowledging the books over the past two years-plus that I started to review, but, for whatever child-related...
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Phil Hall, Conjugation
Orange chair blue porch white Stetsonam re-reading Cold Mountain translated by Red Pine woke to fog a cremation dream it is garbage dayOlson: words made to taste like...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jeff Bien
Jeff Bienis an internationally acclaimed poet whose work has been published, translated and performed in more than forty countries. He is the author of numerous books which have received critical...
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Rosmarie Waldrop, Gap Gardening: selected poems
Throughout Waldrop’s connected careers as poet, translator, and publisher, the world is established, tentatively, via a constant negotiation between languages, texts, cultures, histories, between forms...
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new from above/ground press: mclennan, Bolster, Smith, Tate, timewell,...
KING KONGrob mclennan$4See link here for more informationThree Bloody Words : 20th anniversary edition w/ a new afterword by the authorStephanie Bolster$5See link here for more informationA New Love/...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Douglas Piccinnini
Douglas Piccinnini’s debut collection of poems, Blood Oboe, was published by Omnidawn in 2015 and earlier that year, Story Book: a novella appeared with The Cultural Society. His writing has been...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Tim Bowling (2010-11)
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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Emily Carr, Whosoever Has Let A Minotaur Enter Them, Or A Sonnet—
American poet Emily Carr’s [see my 2015 Jacket2 piece on her here] third trade poetry collection, after Directions for Flying, 36 fits: a young wife’s almanac (Furniture Press, 2010) [see my review of...
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I sign a contract optioning my first novel for film,
To celebrate signing the contract optioning my first novel for (short?) film, I’m offering copies of both of my novels at a discount: white (The Mercury Press, 2007) and missing persons (The Mercury...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rahat Kurd
Rahat Kurd, the author of COSMOPHILIA, a collection of poems published by Talonbooks in 2015, is currently at work on a memoir about the making of Muslim culture in North America. Her poetry sequence...
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Drunken Boat blog "spotlight" series, curated by rob mclennan: Amanda Earl...
I'm now curating a monthly "spotlight" series over at the Drunken Boat blog, featuring a new poet every month with a short statement and a new poem or two. The first two in the series are now online:...
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Kate Schapira, Handbook For Hands That Alter As We Hold Them Out
NEW BEAUTYI walked with my new beauty out from the circular houses.Its seams ripped and frayed whenever I moved it.New beauty is made of erectile tissuemade to bunch and wear out under the bridgewhere...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Malcolm Sutton
Malcolm Sutton lives in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve and Joyland, and his writing on art has appeared in C Magazine and Border Crossings. He is the Founding Editor of The Coming...
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U of Alberta writers-in-residence interviews: Curtis Gillespie (2005-6)
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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The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 17, 2016:...
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:The Factory Reading Seriespre-small press book fair readingfeaturing readings by:Amanda Besserer (Ottawa ON)Stan Rogal (Toronto ON)Fitz...
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