Recent interviews
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An Interview with Angeline Schellenberg
Interviewed by Sharon Caseburg
Sharon Caseburg: Congratulations on your most recent award nomination. You’ve had such a wonderful reception to Tell Them It Was Mozart, having won both the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book. Now you’ve been nominated for the ReLit Award for Poetry. How does it feel to have so much attention placed on such a personal body of work?
Angeline ...
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An Interview with Richard Osler
Interviewed by Clarise Foster
Clarise Foster: In Hyaena Season the poems reflect a range of personal revelation and experience — your youth, relationships, family, your journeys to Africa, your work with addictions. But to start at the beginning—the first poem in the book is “Baptism.” I am always curious about the piece a poet chooses to begin a collection, especially a first full-length collection. Why did you choose this poem and ...
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A Conversation with Ben Ladouceur
Interviewed by Jan Zwicky
In fall 2016, Ben Ladouceur, who is prose editor at Arc, interviewed Jan Zwicky as part of a feature on her work. Zwicky wanted to know what Ladouceur thought about some of the issues that came up — millennials shrugging over climate change, self-promotion through social media — and they began a conversation in the margins of the interview. That discussion got interesting enough that they decided to pursue ...
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New poetry
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Contest winner
startled shut
by Jocelyn Anderson
you draw winter near /
with gnathic aptitude /
the lockjaw of late autumn /
startled shut, rivers grow covers ...
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Contest winner
Vermiculture
by Sarah Ens
When I think about dying, I think about worms, /
how their bodies churn dirt from decay. Comforting, /
perhaps, ...
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Contest winner
Letter to Hannah from Vršovice
by Alison Braid
The city blooms early again. Pairs of girls /
pose by the cluster of magnolias at the tram stop, /
lift ...
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Contest winner
Black Snake
by Ashley Hynd
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Sun circles our bodies on his way /
to kiss Moon—we eat fresh pickerel, /
brook trout, wide mouth ...
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Contest winner
March Thaw with Dead Robin
by Julian Day
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little bird, when did you leave us? /
stepped-past, kicked-aside /
walked-over /
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found ...
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Essays and reviews
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