Queen Mob's Teahouse : Emilie Lafleur interviews Brad Casey
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the fourteenth interview is now online:Brad Casey [pictured] interviewed by Emilie Lafleur. Other interviews from my tenure include:...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Adrienne Gruber
Adrienne Gruberis the author of two full-length poetry collections, Buoyancy Control (BookThug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press), and three chapbooks, Mimic (Leaf Press), Everything Water...
View ArticleTouch the Donkey : back issue sale,
JOIN THE CROWD! Until September 15, 2016, why not pick up any five of the first ten issues of the quarterly Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] for only $20? (plus shipping, of course)Touch the...
View ArticleAnselm Hollo, The Tortoise of History
The Way They Pop Up Nowlate in this lifethe dead and the livingTechnicoloror black and whitedifferent parts of the brainbegin talking to each othersmall children reappearand now they’re either deador...
View Article12 or 20 (small press) questions with Catriona Wright (and Emma Dolan) on...
Desert Pets Press was founded in 2015 by illustrator Emma Dolan and writer Catriona Wright. Based out of Toronto, Ontario, the press publishes limited edition poetry and prose chapbooks and strives to...
View ArticleJordan Scott, Night & Ox
you’re smallyour smallso cry’sinky stampedeblotchyin beecostumein glyph kitchenon glottis islandstuddedsturgeonweighsdashberrymirror drumdecimalcosmoglottalmudstone, lookborealisit’s...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Roberto Montes
Roberto Montesis the author of I DON'T KNOW DO YOU, named one of the Best Books of 2014 by NPR and a finalist for the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from The Publishing Triangle. His poetry has...
View ArticleHoa Nguyen, Violet Energy Ingots
I DIDN’T KNOWI didn’t know my milk could return racingto save the orphan babythis morning with ghosts minor men and shookthe tricky omnivorous banditbefore it could bite...
View ArticleTommy Pico, IRL
Regret is a giftthat keeps on giving I think it was Sontagor Sonic the Hedgehogwho said just dash dodgeweave faster than youcan think n there’s notime to shame spiralCrushingon Muse—whoseeven slight...
View ArticleDrunken Boat blog "spotlight" series #5: Jennifer Kronovet
The fifth in my monthly "spotlight" series over at the Drunken Boat blog, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online:American poet Jennifer Kronovet....
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Angeline Schellenberg
Angeline Schellenberg’s poems appear in journals such as CV2, TNQ, Grain, and Lemon Hound. Her first chapbook, Roads of Stone (the Alfred Gustav Press), launched in May 2015. Her poetry won third prize...
View ArticleJennifer Moore, The Veronica Maneuver
SONETTOThink of the thing that dislocates your ear,then imagine how the ear is recovered. The blastand cure, what detonates and mends; and then,how to restring the instrument. Here the gondoliershave...
View ArticleRae Armantrout, Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001 – 2015
PartlyIn this adfor Newfoundland,an old womansteps onto the porchof the lone houseon a remote coveand shakes a white sheetat a partly cloudy skyas if ~Matched burgundy berrieson adjacent...
View ArticleGuthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage, reviewed at...
Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage, with an introduction by rob mclennan (WLU, 2015) [see my Jacket2 piece on working the project, here], is reviewed over at The Bull Calf by...
View Articlenew from above/ground press: Pirie, Bök, Flowers, Collis, Yalen + Beaulieu,
sex in sevensPearl Pirie$5See link here for more information10 PoemsChristian Bök$4See link here for more informationTAXICAB VOICENeil Flowers$5See link here for more informationNEW LIFEStephen...
View Articlenew from Apostrophe Press: A perimeter, by rob mclennan
If anyone is interested, I have a couple of copies left of this limited-edition chapbook, an excerpt of my forthcoming poetry title with New Star (October).A perimeterrob mclennan$4AThe property...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dean Steadman
Dean Steadman’s work has been published in Canadian journals and e-zines, as well as in the anthology Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry, edited by Susan McMaster (Scrivener Press, 2010). He is the author...
View ArticleAnne Guthrie, The Good Dark
*breaking what it needs,digestion, the nourishment processcould be a good modelso on doors I pluck for sound, and outof varying instrumentsblender, mouth of bronze idol on mantle, mouthcolor,...
View ArticleProfile on Show and Tell Poetry Series, with a few questions
My short profile on Justin Million and Elisha May Rubacha's Show and Tell Poetry Series(Peterborough ON) [thanks to Jenn Huzera for the photo) and small press bird, buried press, along with a few...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Edward Carson
Edward Carson, writer and photographer, is twice winner of the E.J. Pratt Medal in Poetry and author most recently of Birds Flock Fish School, Taking Shape and Knots. He lives in Toronto.1 - How did...
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