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12 or 20 questions with Annik Adey-Babinski
Annik Adey-Babinski[photo credit: Gesi Schilling, courtesy of Jai-Alai Books] grew up in Ottawa, Canada. She has received fellowships from the Banff Center and The Jonh S. and James L. Knight...
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Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos, selected with an...
Of all the senses vision most informs us of separateness. As the bus moved around the traffic pylons and gripped onto the shallow hill my shoulder felt lighter, as if something drew it upward. (The...
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12 or 20 questions with Felicia Zamora
Felicia Zamora is the author of the books Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press), & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press), and Instrument of...
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Clint Burnham, Pound @ Guantánamo : 20 Poems: 2005–2014
My review of Clint Burnham's Pound @ Guantánamo : 20 Poems: 2005–2014 (Talonbooks, 2016) is now up at Arc Poetry Magazine.
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12 or 20 questions with Keegan Lester
Keegan Lester [photo credit: Christopher Jackson] is an American writer. He's been featured on NPR, CBS New York Radio, Marshall University Radio, Chapman University Radio Coldfront and The New School...
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Bernadette Mayer, Works & Days
April 26I’m reading a book by Margaret Atwood called Blind Assassin because I was looking for the phrase “blonde assassin” from an Emily Dickinson poem in which it’s a bee and I happened upon this book...
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Ottawa (BookThug) Launch for Christine McNair, Erin Robinsong + Jennifer Still
BookThug invites you to celebrate the launch of 3 new books of poetry: Charm by Christine McNair, Comma by Jennifer Still and Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinsong!Saturday, June 10thMontgomery Centretown...
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Kate Cayley, Other Houses
A Partial List of People Who Have Claimed to be ChristAnn Lee, 1736-1784I will not sit in your presence, persecutors. Bare-headedbefore you I stand examined, men of English church, men ofholy cloth,...
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Ploughshares : an interview with Robin Richardson on Minola Review
I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog! And my eleventh post is now up: an interview with founder/editor Robin Richardson on Minola Review: a journal of women's writing.You can see links...
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C.D. Wright, ShallCross
Imaginary AugustIf one stood perfectly still. Even in the withering hoursof then. Hair down to here. Being alive and quiet.One could forget oneself. Forget what one didn’t even recognize.How mad it...
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12 or 20 questions with Jared Stanley
Jared Stanleyis a poet, writer and visual artist. His most recent book is EARS(Nightboat Books, 2017).1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your...
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Jennifer Firestone, GATES & FIELDS
This place a concrete placeA place to be bought and soldA place or stationary objectFirst come words then memoriesThen parting wordsThe trees! shhh The trees!A whistling has begun shhhA whistling...
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m a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : f i v e _ 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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On Writing : an occasional series
We're four 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, below, of...
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Jasmine Dreame Wagner, On a clear day
I stay up all night listening to you; I listen for you; I stay up all night to make sure the morning will still be there. It is.A better world begins in the snow of the old one; a better television...
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12 or 20 questions with Julia McCarthy
Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto, ON. She spent a decade living in the U.S., most notably in Alaska and Georgia. She also lived in Norway and spent significant time in South Africa before...
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Daniel Poppick, The Police
ANTIBODYJudy’s window twinkles with primerI sleep in headgear tailored for saintsFilms about animals shine on the ceilingA crab beams through our hairThe meadowlands are fragile with stealingThey wave...
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12 or 20 questions with Lesley Trites
Lesley Trites is the author of the story collection A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream (May 2017) and the poetry collection echoic mimic. Her fiction and non-fiction have recently appeared in carte blanche,...
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above/ground press backlist and rarities : list #28 + #29
After a bit of a delay/distraction, I'm still discovering above/ground press titles (over the nearly-twenty four years and 820+ items of publishing) I thought either completely out-of-print or very...
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