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Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine
Wittgenstein wrote: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Incomplete in several languages, I grow heartened in the places I rub against the edges of different tongues. The world’s...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Andrew Wessels
Andrew Wessels currently splits his time between Istanbul and Los Angeles. He has held fellowships from Poets & Writers and the Black Mountain Institute. Semi Circle, a chapbook of his translations...
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The Canadian Journal of Contemporary Literary Stuff (1997-1999):...
this interview was conducted over email from November 2016 to August 2017 as part of a project to document Ottawa literary publishing. see my bibliography-in-progress of Ottawa literary publications,...
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Charles Rafferty, The Smoke of Horses
After the FloodThe day was bright. We saw where the water stopped rising by the marks on the vinyl siding. The raccoons had all come down from their trees, but no one could say where they had gone. On...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ayesha Chatterjee
Ayesha Chatterjee’s poetry has appeared in journals across the globe and on the official website of Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke. Her second collection, Bottles and...
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Ploughshares : an interview with Erín Moure on translation
I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog! And my fourteenth post is now up: an interview with Erín Moure [photo credit Mélodie Inouie] on translation.You can see links to all of my...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Nate Logan on Spooky Girlfriend Press
Spooky Girlfriend Press has published mostly poetry with solid Midwestern values since 2008. Visit them online: www.spookygirlfriendpress.tumblr.comNate Logan was born and raised in Indianapolis,...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Jeremy Luke Hill interviews Karen Smythe
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the thirty-second interview is now online: Jeremy Luke Hill interviews Guelph, Ontario writer Karen Smythe.Other interviews from my...
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TENDER OMNIBUS: The First 25 Years of Tender Buttons Press: 1989-2014
Tender Buttons was created in a time of radical awakening to feminism, and its complications in regards to race, class, sex, gender, and being “avant-garde” each of which had complex truck with...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matthew Hittinger
Matthew Hittinger is the author of The Masque of Marilyn (GOSS183, 2017), The Erotic Postulate (2014) and Skin Shift (2012) both from Sibling Rivalry Press, and the chapbooks Platos de Sal (Seven...
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Elisa Gabbert, The Self Unstable
Crows can tell one human from another, but we are unable to distinguish among various crows. This is mischaracterized as a paradox. Humans may be racist, but crows can’t read, and robots can’t really...
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m a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : t h r e e _ 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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Jon Boisvert, BORN
DIVORCEWhen mother divorces him, father moves out, onto the roof. He takes only the record player & his copy of the 1938 radio play, War of the Worlds. Every night at midnight, the Martians land...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Vanessa Couto Johnson
Vanessa Couto Johnson's third chapbook, speech rinse, won Slope Editions' 2016 Chapbook Contest. Her second chapbook is rotoscoping collage in Cork City (dancing girl press, 2016), and her first...
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September song: first day(s) of school,
So, the children began school this past week. Or at least: Aoife began her two mornings a week of preschool on Thursday (left and below), and Rose began junior kindergarten (full-time!) on Friday...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ted Landrum
Ted Landrum’sdebut book Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems(2017) is a work of serious play interrogating the architecture of poetry and the poetry of architecture. His work has been published in a...
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Spotlight series #17: Amelia Martens
The seventeenth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Kentucky poet and editor Amelia Martens.The...
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Renée Sarojini Saklikar, THOT-J-BAP: extractions
Un/named, she remained a presence, even if—Cronos laughing, wrapped us tight, blanketsYeah, she took this world too personal, they said.Doomed battles, long shot chances, odds againstFrom indifference:...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michelle Elrick
Michelle Elrick is an award-winning Canadian poet and artist. She is the author of two books and creator of a limited-edition topographic poem which maps the memories of her late grandfather across a...
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Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
About mid book - the very one you are holding I read about “Hazel Mayhall, lowly negative cutter,” then I search her and I can’t find her anywhere at all. It’s HazelMarshall Stephanie later explains...
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