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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Samantha Bernstein
Samantha Bernstein is a Toronto writer and a PhD candidate at York University. Her first book, Here We Are Among The Living, was nominated for a B.C. National Award for Nonfiction. Her second book,...
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The Capilano Review 3.31 (Winter 2017)
The Capilano Review 3.30 called itself a “burning house” issue. Less than six months later, for every house still on fire, there’s someone who’s never been inside it parked out front fanning the...
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Michelle Elrick, Then/Again
What is home? Since childhood, I have played with various definitions, trying to get at the heart of the concept, to pin it down with meaning. At its most basic, home is a place to be from, a current...
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the above/ground press summer sale! and 24th birthday!
Where do the years go? Thanks to Alexander Monker back in 2013, I rediscovered that July 9 is the anniversary of the first above/ground press reading and launch, way way back in 1993 (I'd spent years...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with José Felipe Alvergue
José Felipe Alvergue is the author of gist : rift : drift : bloom(2015) and precis(2017). A graduate of both the Buffalo Poetics and Calarts Writing Programs, he teaches and lives in Wisconsin. 1 - How...
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, This Accident of Being Lost
Auntie told me to paddle down the river to Chi’Niibish. When I get to the lake, she said to turn west and paddle along the shore until I see the mist of Niagara Falls. As soon as I can see the mist,...
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Anna Gurton-Wachter, The Abundance Chamber Works Alone
To enter the realm of writing one must take one’s self to divorce court. I’m sorry it has to be this way. The re-education of my working eye winks. To enter the realm of writing is to suffer losses....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kristin Sanders
Kristin Sanders is the author of CUNTRY(Trembling Pillow Press 2017 and a finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series), This is a map of their watchingme(BOAAT 2015), andOrthorexia (Dancing Girl Press...
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Helen Dimos, No Realtor Was Compensated For This Sale
I stand before a wall. This wall extends infinitely in either direction and is of course located outside.A wall that used to be one-foot wide. Is now razor-thin. So thin I can see through it. But not,...
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Emily Ursuliak, Throwing the Diamond Hitch
Thickened spit clings to the bit and tries to drip, but stretches. The saliva necklace hanging from his horse’s mouth, a prize for the trip back, forty miles from the seismograph outfit. Stanley...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Andrew Seguin
Andrew Seguin is a poet and photographer. He is the author of the poetry collection The Room In Which I Work (Omnidawn 2017), which was inspired by the life of photographic pioneer Nicéphore Niépce,...
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Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997, eds. Dodie Bellamy and...
Why New Narrative and why now? Writers Who Love Too Much arrives in the wake of renewed critical and scholarly attention to the movement; enough, at any rate, to convince us to revisit, reprint and...
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Jennifer Nelson, CIVILIZATION MAKES ME LONELY
NORMAL SONNETThere’s a book people write by pretendingto be another author. It’s called life.Conceptual art’s about goaltendingmore boring arcs of self toward meaning. Life,how far north am I of New...
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three new poems : Vending Machine Press,
I have three new poems up at Australian site Vending Machine Press, from my work-in-progress "the book of smaller." Thanks much! Further poems of mine online can be found at my author site.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian-American thinker/poet, is the author of 6 critically-acclaimed books and has been featured on PBS NewsHour, NPR, Best American Poetry, World Literature Today, On Being with...
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P-QUEUE #14 : Revenge
Are we too bold to present this city, Sanctuary?[17 January 2017, 2 days after MLK Jr day,3 days before Inauguration of the Tyrant.]Am I entitled to my father’s whiteness? Did I believe?in his return,...
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m a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : e i g h t _ r e c e n t _ e s s a...
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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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Alex Manley
Alex Manley is a Montreal writer who graduated from Concordia University's creative writing program in 2013. His work has appeared in publications like Shabby Doll House, Powder Keg, Banango Street,...
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Ploughshares : an interview with Jacob Wren
I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog! And my thirteenth post is now up: an interview with Montreal writer Jacob Wren.You can see links to all of my Ploughshares posts here, including...
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The Factory Reading Series: Irwin, Rhodes + Landers, August 12, 2017
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:The Factory Reading Series:with readings by:Marilyn Irwin (Ottawa)Shane Rhodes (Ottawa)+ Sue Landers (Brooklyn NY)lovingly hosted by rob...
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