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Shannon Maguire, fur(l) parachute
the fur parachutethese angles not drawn by da Vincicloser to May Wests than Ariel’s wispy formsalways this craving for earth 1100 jumps deepalways this war, tiltinganguish laid flat against another...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paul Wm. Zits
Paul Zits received his MA in English from the University of Calgary in 2010 and is the author of Massacre Street (University of Alberta Press, 2013). For the past two years he has served as...
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Daphne Marlatt, Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now
how time exposures expose the timeswind come up in fall’s green foil to Save-On Meatsopaque an hour ago lit now by sun rustle shadows oneleaf ripped off blows across bus-lit Arbutusfloats by...
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Q&A with rob mclennan, for Ribbon Pig
When Ribbon Pig originally asked me these interview questions to appear on their site, I didn't realize they would take nearly a year to post it, so most of these feel rather dated to me.My poem, “from...
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Susan Steudel, New Theatre
My short review of Susan Steudel's New Theatre (Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2012) is now online at Bywords.ca
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Stephen Collis, To the Barricades
The first principle of The Barricades Project, to which To the Barricades belongs, is taken from Robert Duncan: “We begin to see that the intention of the boundless is manifest in the agony and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the author of a new collection of short stories, How To Get Along With Women (Invisible Publishing, 2012). Her poetry and short fiction have been widely published in magazines...
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Skanky Possum Presents Poets mclennan and McNair in Toronto, Saturday, April...
Skanky Possum Presents Poets mclennan and McNair Saturday, April 27We hope you can join us for a poetry reading Saturday, April 27 at Casa Nguyen-Smith where our guest poets will be rob mclennan and...
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The Ottawa Blogging Library: blog review,
Alejandro Bustos was good enough to do a little write-up on my enormously clever blog (ten years old this year) for The Ottawa Blogging Library. Thanks!
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Miranda July, It Chooses You
LA is so many things, but it is also a company town – almost everyone I knew worked on movies, at least part of the time. Which made it hard, almost rude, to resist the rules and rituals of Hollywood...
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Jacqueline Turner, The Ends of the Earth
MY PHONE SAYS11 and rainingand that seems righta grey green anyonecould fuck with as lushbut foreboding oneclunk where a thoughtdrops or never formsthrough this incessantinterruption of narrativefollow...
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Ongoing notes: late April, 2013
I’ve been going through boxes upon boxes, continuing to send my literary archive to the University of Calgary (recently I received from them a healthy-sized tax receipt for the boxes I sent them last...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Richard Van Camp
Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Tlicho Dene Nation from Fort Smith, NWT. He writes and published in every genre. You can visit him on Facebook, Twitter and at www.richardvancamp.com. His...
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Deborah Poe, the last will be stone, too
endless rebirthnails and teethorgans flesh and bonedusk reverie rabbit then deerhard substance of body, the earthsweat bile and bloodtears fat and mucusjellyfishfluids, waterbody mechanisms...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Peters
Sara Peters was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She completed an MFA at Boston University, and was a 2010 to 2012 Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Slate, Maisonneuve,...
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a new poem up at The Steel Chisel,
I've a new poem, "Bank Entire," now online in the April issue of The Steel Chisel.
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Profile on Open Letter: A Journal of Writing and Theory, now up at Open Book:...
My profile of Frank Davey's Open Letter: A Journal of Writing and Theory, with a few questions, is now up at Open Book: Ontario.
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A series of author photos #2: rob mclennan by Brown, whist + Fowler,
I’ve been digging further around my archive, and have continued to discover artwork of me produced by various artists from across Canada over the past decade or two. Idid a previous post on such here.I...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions: Carleton Wilson on Junction Books
Junction Books is an independent Canadian chapbook publisher that was started by Carleton Wilson in 1999. In 2003, Junction Books also began publishing trade books in a poetry imprint with Nightwood...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
Over at the Swiss online journal Dusie, editor/publisher Susana Gardner is allowing me to curate a weekly poem on the dusie blog. On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, the series opened with “On Recovery,” a poem...
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