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some (early) christmas : montebello,
Once again we went to Montebello as part of our Christmas activity with Christine's father and his wife, and Christine's brother's family, all piling into cars for the sake of big meals, fireplaces,...
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Happy Holidays! Christmas and beyond,
for whatever it is you celebrate, might it be a good one, with the hopes of a peaceful (finally) new year.Here is one of the pictures of the wee girls included in our Christmas card photo shoot this year.
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three,
[on the left, Manahil Bandukwala, poet and editor of In/Words Magazine and Press] Further to my previous set of notes (and, see, I’m writing about Toronto’s Indie Literary Market as well), here is...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens lives in Midwest and is the author of three full length poetry collections: Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress, (Yellow Chair Press, 2016), The Messenger is Already Dead...
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Queen Mob’s Teahouse: rob mclennan’s ‘best of 2017’
Once again, I've participated in Queen Mob's Teahouse's 'best of' year-end cavalcade, along with Ed Simon, Jessica Sequeira, Nyla Matuk, Scott Manley Hadley, Reb Livingston, Erik Kennedy, Kenyatta JP...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Brooke Ellsworth
Brooke Ellsworth is author of Serenade(Octopus Books, 2017). She lives and writes in Peekskill, NY.1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to...
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Ploughshares : an interview with book designer Kate Hargreaves
I'm a monthly blogger over at the Ploughshares blog!And my latest post is now up:an interview with literary book designer Kate Hargreaves.You can see links to all of my Ploughshares posts here,...
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some christmas, glengarry etc
After our Christmas weekend in Montebello with father-in-law and his wife, we had a few more Christmassy things to engage in [see last year's post here].December 24: We made our usual, annual jaunt to...
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new from above/ground press: Alyssa Bridgman, Matthew Johnstone + Valerie...
HEDGEAlyssa Bridgman$5See link here for more information( Kiln )Matthew Johnstone$5See link here for more informationsmall bed & field guideValerie Coulton$5See link here for more informationas...
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Natalie Eilbert, Indictus
I tell a friend I want to delete this whole book so that no one will see itand he says I should hold onto that feeling (“To Read Pomes Is to Follow Another Line to the Afterlife. / To Write Them Is to...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is nearly five years old, with more than two hundred new poems and counting! Since April 9, 2013, I've been curating a weekly poem over at the dusie blog, an offshoot of the online...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATE!
My eldest child turns twenty-seven years old today. God sakes.Here she is when she was roughly the age Rose is now.
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Three recent chapbooks: Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Chuqiao Yang + Lindsay Cahill
[this review originally appeared in #68, the "small press" special issue, of filling Station]Shazia Hafiz RamjiPROSOPOPOEIA Anstruther Press, 2017Chuqiao YangREUNIONS IN THE YEAR OF THE SHEEP...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is By My Precise Haircut (2016); the critical study, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and her...
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Lauren Haldeman, Instead of Dying
Instead of dying, you move in with us. We fix the basement up with a shower & a small area for your bed & you come to live. I help you carry boxes down the stairs. We set up your record player....
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Casteels, Abramowitz,...
Anticipating the release next week of the sixteenth issue of Touch the Donkey (a small poetry journal), why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with contributors to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Annette Lapointe
Annette Lapointe was born on the coldest day of 1978 in Saskatoon. She lived in rural Saskatchewan, Quebec City, St John’s, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and South Korea before migrating to Grande Prairie, AB,...
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A ‘best of’ list of 2017 Canadian poetry books : dusie,
Here we go again, my list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating” (given ‘best’ is such an inconclusive designation), constructed from the list of poetry titles I’ve managed to review throughout...
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Spotlight series #21: Shannon Bramer
The twenty-first in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Toronto poet Shannon Bramer.The first eleven in...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lauren Haldeman
Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014) and the artist book The...
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