12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michael Mirolla
Michael Mirolla [photo credit: Salvatore Mirolla] describes his writing as a mix of magic realism, surrealism, speculative fiction and meta-fiction. Publications include the novel Berlin (2010 Bressani...
View Articlefwd: The 2017-2018 Munro Beattie lecture, March 21 at Carleton University,...
Celebrated as one of America’s greatest living poets, Alice Notleyis the author of over forty books of poetry and critical prose. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious literary awards, including...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Manuel Paul López
Manuel Paul López’s books and chapbook include These Days of Candy(Noemi Press, 2017), The Yearning Feed(University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), 1984 (Amsterdam Press, 2010) and Death of a Mexican and...
View Articlebasement: some (further) update:
Remember all that water that came into our basement, the night prior to Hallowe’en? It seems so far away now, but we still haven’t returned our finished basement to normal. We’re incredibly close:...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Canisia Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin is the author of Voodoo Hypothesis (2017) and augur (2017). She is consulting editor at Wolsak & Wynn, serves on the editorial board of Humber Literary Review and as an advisor to...
View Articlesnow day (further excerpts from a work-in-progress,
see an earlier excerpt of the same piece here ; and here ; and hereJanuary 2, 1999, when a snowstorm dropped thirty-nine centimetres of snow on Toronto. As a series of...
View ArticleRóise Nic an Bheatha interviews Kathryn MacLeod
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the thirty-sixth interview is now online:an interview with Victoria poet and KSW alum Kathryn MacLeod by Róise Nic an Bheatha. Other...
View Articlenew from above/ground press: Rogal, Mindell + Zisimatos,
muscle memoryStan Rogal$5See link here for more informationrib and instep: honeyRachel Mindell$5See link here for more informationSEARCHING FOR A SPECIESEleni Zisimatos$4See link here for more...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Toby Altman
Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and five chapbooks, including recently Security Theater (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016). His poems can be found in Crazyhorse,...
View ArticleMinola Review: A Journal of Women’s Writing, an anthology edited by Robin...
Doubt is dead, yet evil is out bedeviling the bars of this country, bearded and growing fat with paranoia. I slept beside it for all those years, woke and made the sweat-wet bed each morning. My...
View ArticlePallaksch, Pallaksch #3
Mouth is a sound. Voice isa sound. Molding of mouthis a sound. Molding of voices is a sound andnot response – becausewho bays under the vowelsrings to infinity.A day is a day is a room is a shadowis a...
View Articlethe twelfth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics is...
FEATURING:Joe Blades Afterword, from Tribeca: Twentieth Anniversary EditionNatalee CapleAfterword, from The Appetites of Tiny Hands: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Doyali Islam Interview with Gil...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Alice Notley
Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop,...
View ArticleSpotlight series #23: Geoffrey Nilson
The twenty-third in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Vancouver poet Geoffrey Nilson.The first eleven...
View ArticleElizabeth Robinson, Rumor
ExtemporeHow entirely aptto the punchline—who, on a lark, erases the set-up,the framehusked downto its pit.The impulseof this placeto exsanguinatethe trick—its owndehydrated self—could not contribute...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Robyn Schiff
Robyn Schiff is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent of which, A Woman of Property, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, named a best book of the year by The New...
View ArticleEmma Healey, stereoblind
FLAT EARTHEvery morning we set up the cameras. Every morning in dark with the birdsong and buzzsaw we wake and are not paid enough to build things. Still, we climb and daylight climbs with us, falls...
View Article12 or 20 (second series) questions with Chloe N. Clark
Chloe N. Clark’s poetry and fiction has appeared in Apex, Bombay Gin, Glass, Hobart, Uncanny, Yes, and more. She is co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph, writes for Nerds of a Feather, and her debut chapbook,...
View Articlem a n y _ g e n d e r e d _ m o t h e r s : f i v e _ r e c e n t _ e s s a y s
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...
View ArticleGeorge Bowering, Some End / George Stanley, West Broadway
McGregor StreetNothing makes nothing happen. That was truealong McGregor Street in Montreal and ina certain woman’s weary heart this side ofthe Selkirk mountain range. You must have seennothing or...
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