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Tour de blogosphere: a profile on me now online at Apartment613

Alejandro Bustos did a nice profile of me over at Apartment613. Thanks!

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan Thomas-Glass

Dan Thomas-Glassis the author of The Great American Beatjack Volume I (Perfect Lovers Press), Kate & Sonia (in the months before our second daughter's birth) (Little Red Leaves' Textile Series),...

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Handsome journal, volume 5, no 1

THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL BUT YOU ARENOT IN ITLet me refer to myself in glorious ways:colors seem brighter, the sky is a shocking blue.I carry my stomach in this bowland earth is planted in my blood.From...

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Noah Eli Gordon, The Year of the Rooster

OBLITERATING HISTORY IN THE PLEASURE OF HOLDING FORTHA first line is reason enough for a second, for a segment, unisexual & solitary as an organ. Our doctor operates a mechanism & calls it...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Paula Eisenstein

Paula Eisenstein writes and commutes in Toronto. Her first novel Flip Turn is a Stuart Ross book. It came out November 2012 from Mansfield Press. Paula has been diligently filling her writer credential...

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Profile of Peter Norman, with a few questions,

My profile of Mansfield Press poet Peter Norman, with a few questions, is now online at Open Book: Toronto.

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Jessica Hiemstra, Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle

Rachel insisted Keira Jo be swaddled, not clothed.She’s not a doll, she said. And besidesthere are rituals reserved for mothers. The gentlefirst tug of naked arms through cotton, white sockson new...

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Mindmade Books: Cole, Werkman, Queneau and Frey,

I received a small stack of publications from Los Angeles, California chapbook publisher Mindmade Books, including Norma Cole’s a little a & a (2002), H.N. Werkman’sTiksels (2007), Raymond...

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Letter to Norma Cole (some notes on the prose poem)

July 17, 2012Ottawa, CanadaDear Norma,It’s been two years since I stayed in the nearly-former apartment of Toronto writers Stephen Cain and Sharon Harris, after helping them move into their new house....

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HEADLIGHT anthology, #15-16

when all night long            it pulls them downComing home from putting out a fire, how can they be expected to kiss the cheeks of their sleeping children and take out the leaking garbage and shuffle...

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Paul Zits, Massacre Street

The rebellion is now a thingof the past, it is now a pageWhen a few generations shall come andgo our sad story of the Frog LakeMassacre may be totally forgotten andthe actors therein consigned...

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Ali Smith, Artful

We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we’ve read a book after reading it just once....

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nigel Wood

Nigel Wood was born and raised in Manchester, England. After studying French language and literature at the University of London, he moved to Canada where he spent 8 years, living in Montreal and...

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Kim Minkus, Tuft

I have visions.I see colours as birds go.my sparrow gaze lifts me up.I look. out.I don’t need much space, but I want it.stop the keypads.I am interested in the labour of listening.becoming is my...

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introduction: Stan Rogal's Brautiganesque,

My introduction to Stan Rogal's new poetry collection, Love's Not The Way To (Toronto ON: Bookland Press, 2013) is now online at The Toronto Review of Books.

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Steven Artelle

Steven Artelle’s writing has been published n FreeFall, Vallum, Bywords Quarterly Journal, Ottawa Arts Review, and ottawater, as well as forthcoming poems in filling Station and CV2. His series of...

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Golden Handcuffs Review: Volume 1, No. 16 (Spring-Summer, 2013)

David Antin and the word seedyDavid and I were hired in 1968 for the first faculty of the art department of the University of California at San Diego. We shared an office. I loved David immediately,...

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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Jess Mynes on Fewer & Further Press

Jess Mynes' poetry has appeared in various journals and magazines including: Bright Pink Mosquito, Vlak, The Nation, and Lungfull. He is the author of several published works, including, How's the...

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rob mclennan reads on main stage at WESTFEST, June 7, 2013

Ottawa's free festival in Westboro is now ten years old, and I read as part of the main stage, alongside Holly McNarland and Elliot Brood, on Friday, June 7, 2013. Check out the entire list of four...

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new from above/ground press: new titles by Stengel, Christie, Smith + Tucker,

tetherby Jill Stengel$4See link here for more information GOVERNMENTby Jason Christie$4See link here for more information MNEMOTECHNICS Jessica Smith$4See link here for more information punchlinesby...

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