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Joel W. Vaughan reviews my Four Stories (Apostrophe Press, 2016) in Broken...
Joel W. Vaughan was good enough to review my Four Stories(Apostrophe Press, 2016) in Broken Pencil. You can see the review here. I have only a couple copies left, so if anyone is interested, shoot me...
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my Patreon patron-only blog : Alberta, and The Litter I See Project
Since building myself a Patreon author page, I've also been posting to a password-protected patron-only blog. I thought it might be worth reprinting the occasional post here, for the sake of general...
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Lisa Robertson, 3 Summers
You could say that form is learningyou can see form take shapeat the coronal suture’s first arcadeit’s explaining it’s appearingunestranged from enormity’sprick of a spiny plant like a...
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by request : Rose and Aoife's Hallowe'en (multiple) outfits,
Since more than a couple folk have requested, here are photos of our young ladies in most of their multiple Hallowe'en outfits. Yes, multiple. From Monday morning to Tuesday, Rose, for example, was...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lochlan Bloom
Lochlan Bloom is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. The BBC Writersroom describes his writing as ‘unsettling and compelling… vivid, taut and grimly effective work’.He is the...
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Michael e. Casteels, The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses
THE WOODSMANOn the bank of the stream, I meet a hunter. His gun is moss-covered, his beard thick with foliage. He says he has been lost for years. I tell him he is not far from the village and I can...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Ben Fama interviews Abraham Adams
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, theseventeenth interview is now online:An interview with Abraham Adams by Ben Fama. Other interviews from my tenure include: an...
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On beauty
There is no such thing as safe. She skims posts from a variety of her Facebook groups, mothers posting notices on another dead child, another dead baby. One posts of their son who died a week prior,...
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On Writing : an occasional series
We're more than three years and over one hundredessays into the occasional series of "On Writing" essays I've been curating over at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog. I've included an updated list,...
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Brynne Rebele-Henry, Fleshgraphs
38.Her body washes in, a tangle of seaweed and her grandmother’s fake sapphires. He is disappointed about the way her body is shaped. “I thought she was a whale.” We watch her arching her back, her...
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new from above/ground press: Barton, Adams, Downs, Polyck-O'Neill, Claxton,...
REFRAMING PAUL CADMUSJohn Barton$5 See link here for more informationGRAPPLECarrie Olivia Adams$4See link here for more informationShiftless(Harvester) Buck Downs $4See link here for more...
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Drunken Boat blog "spotlight" series #7: Gil McElroy
The seventh 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: Colborne, Ontario poet Gil...
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postcards etc home, from the great war
Some family postcards and photos, from the Great War:Elmer Cassidy to his sister, Mary Caroline Cassidy Swain (my mother's maternal grandmother)Pte. Joseph Swain (my mother's maternal grandfather) to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Leesa Dean
Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s creative Writing MFA program and a full-time Creative Writing and English instructor at Selkirk College in Nelson, BC. Her short story collection,...
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Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies
It was as if I could not write now offline. It was as if I needed the writing itself to be public to believe my voice existed. It was as if my voice had stopped existing. It was as if some essential...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Cheena Marie Lo, Tessa Micaela and Brittany...
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, theeighteenth interview is now online:Tender and Tough: Letters as Questions as Letters: Cheena Marie Lo, Tessa Micaela and Brittany...
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Ken Edwards, a book with no name
No such thing as repetitionNo such thing as repetition. No such thing as repetition there is no such thing as repetition. There is no such thing as repetition. Because. Because when a thing happens....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nora Gould
Nora Gould writes from east central Alberta where she ranches with her family. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 1984 with a degree in veterinary medicine. Her debut poetry collection, I...
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On beauty
It is impossible to remain still. I can’t remain still. I am a body in constant motion. Between baby, house, partner and writing, I am a body in constant motion, attempting two, three, four things...
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Erin Wunker, Notes from a Feminist Killjoy
I think, now, that there are questions to be asked about access, ownership, and agency. I think, now, that claiming space and having a place at the table of Big Ideas and Important Thinking are not the...
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