Recent interviews
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An Interview with Maureen Hynes, Liz Ukrainetz, and Kye Marshall
Interviewed by Contemporary Verse 2
Contemporary Verse 2: The Lina Chartrand Award was established by the three of you after her death in 1994. How did you all know her, and how did your personal and creative paths come to cross?
Liz Ukrainetz: I met Lina in 1990 at a creative writing workshop with Susan Swan. Within the workshop, we were split into smaller groups, and Lina got our smaller four to continue after the class ended. She also ...
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Conversations with Natasha Ramoutar and Tazi Rodrigues
Interviewed by Contemporary Verse 2
We touched base with a couple of the emerging poets from our recently-published Emergence Issue to chat about everyday inspiration, reading different forms, working with a mentor, and how those things have helped inform their writing. You can read these brief interviews with Natasha Ramoutar and Tazi Rodrigues below, and find some of their poetry featured in the Emergence Issue—as well as a link to ...
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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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Essays and reviews
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Review: Letdown by Sonia Greenfield
Reviewed by Jeri Theriault
The word letdown refers to the onset of lactation in mammals, a physiological response that binds mother and child. As Sonia Greenfield writes in poem #36 of her third collection, Letdown, it also means "disillusionment, discouragement or disappointment." ...
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Review: The Only Card in a Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner
Reviewed by Eileen Mary Holowka
Lauren Turner’s debut poetry collection, The Only Card in a Deck of Knives, was not meant to be published during a global pandemic and yet it is hard to imagine a better balm for this moment. Despite its stark focus on death, violence, and trauma, Turner’s ...
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Review: THE TRUTH IS TOLD BETTER THIS WAY by Liz Worth
Reviewed by Melanie Janisse-Barlow
ON ERECTIONS AND BANISHINGS
My flight is delayed. I am sitting in the Detroit Metro airport with The Truth is Told Better This Way, Liz Worth’s second collection of poems. I have a baculum with me—a gift from another writer—a reminder of things more profane, ...
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