
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
- Overpass On the overpass above the QEW, / we dangled our wishbone arms over the green / metal rail. Cars coursed like ...
- Jet Lagged My mother never went outside / something about the sun, her skin / so I studied sacred geometry / and pedaled ...
- Contest winner Products of Scientific Notation You remember learning the rules— / for how many figures get to ...
- Contest winner To Twitter, with Love The body’s strongest muscle is the masseter. / Found only in mammals, we use it to open & close / the jaw. This ...
- Contest winner Welwitschia / from between my mother’s particular thighs / her waters broke upon blue-flowered linoleum / and turned to slush ...
Essays and reviews