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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Kate Siklosi and Dani Spinosa on Gap...
Gap Riot Pressis a Toronto-based feminist micro-press publishing the best avant-garde, experimental, and visual poetry with a focus on femme, queer, and poc poets.Kate Siklosi, founding editorKate...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Arisa White
Cave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White [photo credit: Nye' Lyn Tho] received her MFA from UMass, Amherst, and is the author of Black Pearl,Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, andA Penny Saved. Her recent...
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Natalie Shapero, Hard Child
You Look Like I FeelDirt on my chin and I wonder: Am I alreadyin the ground? Like a toy turned real, I cannot shedthe sense that I have died. The German wordfor heaven’s the sameas the German word for...
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Shannon Bramer, precious energy
THE TOY after Emily DickinsonMy life stood in corners untilyou made us a new homefor playing. At firstI called you owner. Youscolded and commanded meto be a real friend.You took me to your...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Orlando Ortega-Medina
Orlando Ortega-Medina is a US born British author of Judeo-Spanish descent via Cuba. He studied English Literature at UCLA and has a law degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los...
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Marie Buck, Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul
13Once I was at an ice-skating birthday party. It was the first time I had ever ice-skated.I felt joyous but wrong.I went to the bathroom and was washing my hands. I vomited suddenly and tried to...
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Happy (fourth) Birthday, Rose!
Our Rose is now four years old, if you can believe it [do you remember that time she got borned?]. Given our basement chaos [see my note on such here], her party is delayed, slightly, but we'll figure...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman’s [photo credit: Amy Jarman] most recent collection of poetry is The Heronry(Sarabande Books, 2017). He has also published two books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry and Body...
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Sharon Thesen, The Receiver
Vernon, 1954He worked for the city & early one spring morningstill dark out, he took me with himto collect the still-burning oil lampsfrom the road construction & put them in the back of the...
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Ploughshares : an interview with Susan Elmslie
I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog! And my sixteenth post is now up: an interview with Montreal poet Susan Elmslie, author of Museum of Kindness, her second collection, newly out from...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lydia Kwa
Lydia Kwa [photo credit: Pink Monkey Studios] has published three novels and two books of poetry. Her latest novel, Oracle Bone, appeared recently with Arsenal Pulp Press (Fall, 2017). Her writing...
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Catriona Strang, Reveries of a solitary biker
8 a document of possibilitiesAnd here it becomes apparent that common intentions are as apples dropped by habit, and by patient accumulation also. Even a wild parent will at times determine...
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Fenn Stewart, Better Nature
Hell, Kathleen, this is it: it’s my last chanceto reach all of Ontario. It’s summer,I’m replete & steeping in errata,got my tongue fluent in the motherese.Come on down, sweetcheeks: it’s my last...
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12 or 20 (small press) questions with Ashley Fortier and Oliver Fugler on...
Metonymy Pressis based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), unceded Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) territory. We publish literary fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers. We try to reduce barriers to publishing for...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jenny Drai
Jenny Drai is the author of The History Worker, Wine Dark, The New Sorrow Is Less Than The Old Sorrow (all from Black Lawrence Press), [the door] (Trembling Pillow Press), :Body Wolf: (Horse Less...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses’ Indie Literary Market
Once again, I made my way to Toronto for the annual Indie Literary Market, hosted by the Meet the Presses collective, where they announced the winner of this year’s bpNichol Chapbook Award (Sonnet...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair
[Michael Dennis, with Faizal Deen's latest above/ground press chapbook, and the author as well] With our most recent event, our ottawa small press book fair is now twenty-three years old (the next fair...
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new from above/ground press: Caple, Lea, Robinson, Nilson, Schmaltz, Blades,...
The Appetites of Tiny Hands: Twentieth Anniversary EditionNatalee Caplewith a new afterword by the author$5See link here for more information Touch the Donkey #15$6 See link here for more...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Liz Countryman
Liz Countryman is author of A Forest Almost (Subito Press, 2017) and coeditor of Oversound. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina.1 - How did your first book change your...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses’ Indie Literary Market (part two,
[in the background, bpNichol Chapbook Award-shortlisted author Doris Fiszer and her husband, beyond a flurry of activity including Eric Schmaltz and Gap Riot Press, etc]Further to my previous set of...
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