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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Derek Webster
Derek Webster is the author of Mockingbird, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, and the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine. His poetry and prose have appeared in Boston Review, BOMB,...
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our american adventure; or: what we did on our (winter/spring) vacation
I think it's safe to say we've done a ridiculous amount of travel over the past couple of years, especially with one or two small children. Do you remember when we were in Washington DC? Boca Raton?...
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Christine McNair, Charm: Toronto launch + Ottawa teaser,
In case you hadn't heard, Christine McNair (my brilliantly talented spouse) has a second poetry collection, Charm, which launches this week in Toronto! See the information on Thursday's big launch...
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Douglas Barbour, Listen. If
I wanted toto get thereto get intothe words turnedas if on a latheof heaven sentstutter fallthe way theytook the breathright out of me (“2 for Robert Creeley”)I’m thrilled to see a new title by...
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(formerly Drunken Boat blog) "spotlight" series #12: Joe Blades
The twelfth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online: Fredericton poet Joe Blades. The first eleven in the series,...
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Stephen Cain, False Friends
Sedimentary civilization,in a purple peak.Encircled by today’s tracks,Juvenalian adolescence,urinary undergrowth, Orientalist oaks.Venereal seeds on a mattress of weeds—golden memories of...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kerry Clare
Kerry Clare is a National Magazine Award–nominated writer and editor of the anthology The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. Her essays, reviews and short fiction have appeared most recently in...
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Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments
When I was a pianist I had two equal and opposite fears: becoming the best and failing to become the best. Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes...
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new chapbook : Cervantes' bones, published by words(on)pages
I've a new poetry chapbook this month! Cervantes' bones, published by Toronto's words(on)pages. Thanks so much! You can totally order one through them directly, or attempt to get one through me (my...
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National Poetry Month 2017 : Chaudiere Books blog
In case you haven't seen, I'm curating my fourth annual National Poetry Month series over at the Chaudiere Books blog, with new poems posting every day or two. Already I've posted new pieces by Julia...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Huebert
David Huebert is the author of the poetry collection We Are No Longer The Smart Kids In Class (Guernica 2015) and the chapbook Full Mondegreens (Frog Hollow 2016), co-authored with Andy Verboom. His...
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Aoife's first birthday was on Sunday : and, Christine returns to work today,
We had a weekend away with father in law, which included Easter and Aoife's first birthday! Gadzooks. Remember how long ago when Rose turned one?And: Christine returns to work today, after her...
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Keegan Lester, this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it was all i had so i...
if comets raining overhead. if we turn into a museum for the living beforethe big one hits. if language, an improbable opponent to gravity & stars,came up with new names for gravity & stars,...
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Open Book : my final two columns, part two:
My nearly-decade's worth of columns for Open Book has come to an end. My final column is now up, and features three poets worth paying attention to: Chris Johnson, Chuqiao Yang and Bardia Sinaee. My...
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Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure, edited by Shannon Maguire
The Beauty of Furs: A Site GlossaryLater you realize it is a poem about being born, the smell of the fur is your mother birthing you & your hair is wet not slicked back but from the wetness of...
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Canthius #3 : winter 2017
Title PoemI regard this poem, this article online, this music videofrom the sidelines of my eyes, an unconscious kindof integration into rationality like swallowing spiritsthat disseminates vertically...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse : Sarah Rockx interviews Gary Barwin
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the twenty-fifth interview is now online: Sarah Rockx interviews Hamilton, Ontario writer Gary Barwin (originally written as an...
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Leanne Dunic, To love the coming end
On top of sweaty sheets, I exist without basic order. Order of eating. Of hydration. Of relieving myself of concentrated urine. Buddha says: Existence is suffering. Desire is suffering. To be awake...
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m a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : f o u r _ r e c e n t _ e s s a y s
many gendered mothers is a project on literary influence featuring short essays by writers (of any/all genders) on the women, femme, trans, and non-binary writers who have influenced them, as a direct...
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Sarah Pinder, Common Place
Tumbling behind pleasureon our best behavior,holding its hands.The sweeter version:hollow, ropey, and roaring,in redux with the truest reds.Step by step, man in a blue suit,man with a baby, man...
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