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On beauty
She knew the only way to prioritize was to record everything. She had to make a list. She wrote everything down, constantly adding and shifting items. Put up the fence. Get the roof fixed. Take the car...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carolyn Ann Hembree
Carolyn Hembree was born in Bristol, Tennessee. Her debut poetry collection, Skinny, came out from Kore Press in 2012. In 2016, Trio House Books published her second collection, Rigging a Chevy into a...
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Laura Broadbent, In on the Great Joke
You disappeared into obscurity for a long while, and your heroines often experienced exile as well. Is this the natural movement following an inner death, which is the first death?Now I no longer wish...
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above/ground press: 2017 subscriptions now available!
Twenty-three years! As we edge even closer to twenty-five (as well as above/ground press' 800th publication, due any day now!).Can you believe it? There's been a ton of activity over the past...
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Denise Newman, Future People
The TranslatorMistaking a coiled ropefor a snakelike mixing upanxious and eager,“I’m anxious to meet you,”revealing a hidden dreadclimbing the stairsto the esteemedpoet’s apartment. “It was all...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sanita Fejzic
Sanita Fejzic is an Ottawa-based writer whose novella, Psychomachia, appeared in September 2016 with Quattro Books. She is currently working on her first play, The Blissful State of Surrender. 1 - How...
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Pearl Pirie on rob mclennan (twice!) : Brick Books' Celebration of Canadian...
Kind thanks to Pearl Pirie, who did two deeply kind and generous write-ups about me recently. She did one on my work as part of the Brick Books Celebration of Canadian Poetry, and another on myself and...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : David Buuck interviews John Chávez
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the fifteenth interview is now online:Against Normalization / Contra la Normalización: David Buuck interviews John Chávez [pictured]...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jennifer Zilm
Jennifer Zilm is the author of Waiting Room (BookThug, 2016) which was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She also wrote the chapbooks October Notebook(dancing girl press,...
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Melissa Dickey, Dragons
the toddler chews a pacifier as a jokehides his face as a jokehe does not yet reador understand the sadness of otherswhen you saw your old friend and she spoke so thicklyyou thought maybe her teeth...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Peter Vanderberg on Ghostbird Press
Peter Vanderbergis the founding editor of Ghostbird Press. He served in the US Navy from 1999 – 2003 and received a MFA from CUNY Queens College. His work has appeared in several journals including...
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Kaia Sand, A Tale of Magicians who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff
the president probably talks to someone every daysometimes his lips are moving, but our volume’s too lowsometimes his voice is a tenth the volume of minesometimes his voice trembles inside my ten...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Zach Savich
Zach Savich [photo credit: Lisa Wells] was born in Michigan in 1982 and grew up in Olympia, Washington. He received degrees from the Universities of Washington, Iowa, and Massachusetts. His work has...
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On beauty
Before he was born, we took classes. Multiple classes. We watched videos, practiced breathing and back-massage, spoke of bathtubs and yoga balls, folded diapers in groups and practiced CPR on baby...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : my interview with Claire Freeman-Fawcett on Spread Letter
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, thesixteenth interview is now online:Epistolary device: my interview with Claire Freeman-Fawcett on Spread Letter. Other interviews...
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Stacy Szymaszek, Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals
you ateall thecuredmeat__Rachel’s catlicks myknucklesnever a parodyof care i.e.when thereis groundeverywheresleeps inown beds (“austerity measures”)New York poet Stacy Szymaszek’s fourth full-length...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Elisa Gabbert
Elisa Gabbert [photo credit: Adalena Kavanagh] is the author of L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, The Self Unstable and The French Exit. Her poems and essays have appeared recently in Catapult,...
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Profile for Open Book: How to keep a small chapbook press alive for...
My short piece, "How to keep a small chapbook press alive for twenty-three years (a primer,"is now online at Open Book. And, have you thought of subscribing?
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Ploughshares : an interview with Stuart Ross
I'm a monthly blogger over atthe Ploughshares blog! And my fourth post is now up: an interview with Cobourg, Ontario poet, editor, fiction writer and small press publisher Stuart Ross, author of the...
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Elisa Gabbert, L’Heure Bleue or The Judy Poems
When we argue about war,I say I’m a pacifistand he looks for a loophole.He brings up Hitler, genocide—these noble causes.The problem I haveis distinguishing between atrocities:the genocide on one...
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