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12 or 20 (second series) questions with kathryn l. pringle
kathryn l. pringle lives in Oakland, Ca. She is the author of fault tree (winner of Omindawn’s 1st/2nd book prize selected by CD Wright), RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (Heretical Texts/Factory School), The Stills...
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Jenna Butler, seldom seen road
Legend, 1942saskatchewan in autumnwar & harvestfields given over toair bassestimes like thesewhere you come from less important thanhow strong your shoulders& how willing& your namefalling...
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William Hawkins introduction for the VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour inductee...
On Sunday,March 17, 2013, VERSeFest inducted William Hawkins and Greg “Ritalin” Frankson into the first annual VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour. I was asked to introduce him, and tweaked slightly the piece I...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Melanie Hubbard
Melanie Hubbard won the 2011 Book Award in Poetry from Subito Press for We Have With Us Your Sky (2012). A chapbook, Gilbi Winco Swags, was published by Cannibal Books in 2008. Poems have appeared in...
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Ongoing notes: late March, 2013
Aren’t you sorry you missed our third annual VERSeFestpoetry festival? I really don’t know how to convince you any more than I already have. But don’t feel bad: there’s a reading coming up tomorrow...
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Six poems for King Kong
for William Hawkins,1. King Kong Goes to CambridgeWashed ashore in statehood, long escaped from Rotterdam,what might he know of low-hung rooftops, turret-stone, a bridgeheld down eight centuriesof...
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Arielle Greenberg, Shake Her
Arielle Greenberg was raised in Niskayuna, New York, home of the first Shaker community in America and eight and a half miles from where Mother Ann Lee is currently buried. She was pregnant with her...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Gillian Savigny
Originally from Vancouver, Gillian Savigny has spent the last twelve years studying and working in cities across Canada. She holds a B.A. Honours degree in English Literature from Queen’s University...
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new from above/ground press: new titles by mclennan, Sand, Gelèns and Lindner...
Trace,rob mclennan$4See link here for more informationA Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost Its PuffKaia Sand$4See link here for more informationTwo Dutch Poets: Hélène Gelèns and Erik...
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my Electronic Poetry Center - EPC author page has finally been updated,
After five years, I've finally managed to update my author page over at SUNY-Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center. It's filled with a ton of links to my books, reviews and other somesuch, along with this...
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Charles Bernstein, Recalculating
Imagine poetry as a series of terraces, some vast, some no bigger than a pinprick, overlooking the city of language. The sound and light show begins in the dark: sentences dart by, one by one, forming...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Tamas Dobozy
TAMAS DOBOZY was born in Nanaimo, BC. After receiving his Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia, he taught at Memorial University. His work has been published in journals throughout...
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Profile of Karl Jirgens' Rampike magazine, with a few questions,
My profile of Karl Jirgens' Rampike magazine is now up at Open Book: Ontario.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Howard Chaykin
Howard Victor Chaykin has been a comic book professional for over forty years. forty years. Think about it. He took a hiatus from the comics’ industry for about fifteen years, to work his way up the...
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The Olive Reading Series: season thirteen,
Anyone following this blog for any amount of time might already be aware that I’ve long been a fan of Edmonton’s Olive Reading Series [see previous posts here, here, here, here, here and here],...
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Pneumatic Antiphonal, Sylvia Legris
My review of Saskatchewan poet Sylvia Legris' poetry pamphlet Pneumatic Antiphonal (New Directions, 2013) is now online at Prairie Fire Review of Books.
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A Short Film About My Father -- new short fiction,
I've a new short story, "A Short Film About My Father," now up at Numero Cinq.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with kevin mcpherson eckhoff
kevin mcpherson eckhoff when new third book by poetry this spring total now, called Forge. Thank you, Invisible Publishing! And editor, too, so check or not out www.kalamalkapress.com. The bestfriend...
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A series of author photos: rob mclennan by Kerr, McInnes and whist,
For years, I preferred the idea of cartoon depictions on the back covers of chapbooks and books, as opposed to professionally-done author photos. I spent a long period unhappy with any photographic...
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Etgar Keret, Four Stories
Etgar’s stories are a reminder of that rude intangible that often goes unspoken in creative writing workshops: a great work of art is often just residual evidence of a great human soul. There is...
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