Recent interviews
- An Interview with Maureen Hynes, Liz Ukrainetz, and Kye Marshall 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 ...
- Conversations with Natasha Ramoutar and Tazi Rodrigues 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 ...
- An Interview with Angeline Schellenberg 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 ...
New poetry
- spectacle in the museum of man until 1974 i lock bats in mason jars. / call it a cruel thing, a bitch about / to bite thing, but bats-teeth leave / exit ...
- Blood Quantum when you look at me do you see my blood quantum? / the quantities of who i am poured down / from generation to ...
- I let my younger brother use my headphones, and he used them for evil. I let my younger brother use my headphones, and he used them for evil. He listened to the / absolute worst music on ...
- Or, Perhaps You Have Morning, early September. Still dark, / a proper chill reminding me how / short our summers really are, how / ...
- Lion and Tiger while you were entering the wu tang / we wore our jeans low, taught our bodies to pop / and lock a love song that ...
Essays and reviews
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Review: THE TRUTH IS TOLD BETTER THIS WAY by Liz Worth 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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Review: Throwing the Diamond Hitch by Emily Ursuliak Emily Ursuliak’s first book of poetry, Throwing the Diamond Hitch, contributes to the Canadian road trip genre with a story full of gusto and verve. The book chronicles an actual trip in the Summer of 1951 by Ursuliak’s grandmother and a friend, as they ...
- Shades of Grey: Three Recent Books of Poetry Xiphoid Process by Kevin Connolly House of Anansi Press, 2017 88 pp.; $19.95 (paperback) Octopus by Patrick Warner Biblioasis, 2016 64 pp.; $18.95 (paperback) The Duende of Tetherball by Tim Bowling Nightwood Editions, 2016 96 pp.; $18.95 (paperback) Xiphoid Process takes its title from a strange but ...
