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Danielle LaFrance, Friendly + Fire
THE ONE WHERE THE GANG GETS BACK TOGETHERThe one where human community over-powers animal.The one where H.S. recognizes a common strangeness, a common sweetness, a fundamental separation.The one where...
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a new short story : bad nudes
I've a new short story, "The secret origins of the everyday," now online at Bad Nudes.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Allison Cobb
Allison Cobbis the author of Born2 (Chax Press); Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); and After We All Died (Ahsahta Press), which was a finalist for the...
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Drunken Boat blog "spotlight" series #10: Sonnet L’Abbé
The tenth 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: Vancouver poet Sonnet L’Abbé. The...
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Ryan Murphy, Millbrook
The sun buries itselfThe sun buries itselfOver Staten fucking Island.The sun a bale of copper.The sun a Pontiac Fiero.I don’t want to—Or several—Or ever—I can’t see youThroughYour sun veil.Absent the...
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Tripwire #12 : AKA VANCOUVER
paint under sticky licks of amber finisheshere this canna lily medicine ornamentfor use on a journeythis airfresh commoditymouthful of water a liquid gemlead in the blood of your childrenmay we...
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Ploughshares : an interview with Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott...
[photo credit: Harvard University]I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog! And my eighth post is now up: an interview with Canada's 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott...
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On beauty
During our first pregnancy, she suggested we each write out letters to eventually gift to our as-yet-unborn child. She described it as a kind of journal-keeping, articulating self-portraits through our...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with James Meetze
James Meetze [Metz] is the author of three books of poetry, including Phantom Hour and Dayglo,which was selected by Terrance Hayes as winner of the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, both published by Ahsahta...
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Open Book : Ottawa finally gets a city Poet Laureate (again)
My article, "Ottawa finally gets a city Poet Laureate (again)," is now up at Open Book! In which I discuss a bit of history of Ottawa's Poet Laureate (we most likely had the first in the country), and...
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P-QUEUE #10-13
Anyone following this site for a long enough time will know that I’m a big fan of the annual P-QUEUE, a journal out of SUNY Buffalo [see my review of #7-8 here; my review of #5 here]. I might be a bit...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Timothy Dyke interviews Jaimie Gusman
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the twenty-first interview is now online: Timothy Dyke interviews Hawai’i poet Jaimie Gusman. Other interviews from my tenure...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jos Charles
Jos Charles is author of Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). They are founding-editor of THEM: a trans literary journal. They have writing published (and/or publications forthcoming) with POETRY, Denver...
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(another) very short story
I’ve been holding a theory that Donna, companion to David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, was actually the Doctor’s mother. Or at least, would be. Despite her memory “re-boot” at the end of her...
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Ongoing notes: mid-February, 2017
[Lady Aoife's split-second mood shifts, during lunch]Hey, everyone. What’s up?I asked for chapbooks, and some of you even responded! Much thanks! Would obviously love to see more. What else do you...
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IncrementalI don’t know how to write. Other templates emerge. My faith is insurance. A pat on the shoulder. Again, our skunk winters. Beneath forgotten hills. Salted. Indenting the crawlspace. A...
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announcing : VERSeFest 2017 : March 21- 26, 2017
Six days, sixty poets, one festival. Celebrating written poetry and spoken word in English and French, VF ’17 brings you some of the most exciting poets on the planet.Our seventh annual festival! With...
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WHAT IS POETRY? (JUST KIDDING, I KNOW YOU KNOW): INTERVIEWS FROM THE POETRY...
This is not an oral history of The Poetry Project, for instance, though a great deal of information that might qualify as anecdotal history of The Project and its numerous social and artistic contexts...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nisha Bhakoo
Nisha Bhakoo’s writing has been published in numerous literary magazines, and her poetry has been included in anthologies by The Emma Press and Mud Press. In 2015, she was shortlisted for Cambridge...
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On beauty
Wake by 6am. Put the kettle on for toddler’s oatmeal, start coffee. Slip into the washroom, splash my face with water. Quickly dress. Kettle boils. Slip a bowl of oatmeal in front of eager toddler,...
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