This week’s new videos
Week 13: Writers on Editing
Apr 16, 2014
This video is part of "Poets on Record," an ongoing series of video interviews conducted by Contemporary Verse 2.
Recent interviews
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An Interview with Peter Midgley
Sharon Caseburg: What brought you to Canada? What were your reasons for staying?
Peter Midgley: I came to do a PhD at the U of A and got offered a job right after I finished. And well, here I am, and I guess now Edmonton is home.
SC: After all this time in Canada, do you still get homesick for South Africa?
PM: I do miss South Africa, but I miss the country of my birth, Namibia, too. I miss
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An Interview with RC Weslowski
In the realm of slam poetry, few have as long a resumé as Randy Jacobs, a.k.a. RC Weslowski. As a member of the Vancouver Poetry Slam community since its early days in the late ’90s, Weslowski has not only been integral to the longevity of Canada’s oldest poetry slam community, but he has also won over communities across the nation. Representing Vancouver seven times at national competitions, he
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An Interview with Carmine Starnino
Tim Bowling: You set out early on, back in the mid-’90s, to be a poet and a critic. You’ve maintained a place in both worlds when many poets opt out of the critical side of things. Have you been pleased with the way you’ve maintained that balance?
Carmine Starnino: For the most part, yes. But I can’t say that I’ve had any choice in the matter. I have no opt-out button when it comes to writing
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New poetry
- Religious Studies / / His orange sweater damaged your hearing / it was that loud. Outside the / diesel of Greyhound buses ...
- maskihky words/medicine words kayâsago, a long, long time ago / kistêsinâw Our Elder Brother / kî-pimohtêw walked and walked kî-pimohtêw / ...
- Words under vertigo like a falling debris from a construction site / slowly committing suicide as it touches / the ground, again I ...
- Soraya 1. / / Excluding pork, shellfish, milk, and rattan, / we rationalize tanagers tanning in the tonga, / ...
- Confession “I live” / used to say / having no way / stood in front of “i” / pointing the gun — which the shooting was ...
Essays and reviews
