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  An interview with John K. Samson Interviewed by Clarise Foster Clarise Foster: The introductory quotes to the book and epigraphs to several of the pieces in this collection are excerpts of poems: Alden Nolen, Patrick Friesen, W.H. Auden, Catherine Hunter. Clearly poetry has a substantial impact on your song writing — when did you become interested in poetry and how does it shape your creative process? John K. Samson: Sure, I became interested in poetry at the ...
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  An interview with Méira Cook Interviewed by Clarise Foster Clarise Foster: A Walker in the City, your fourth collection of poetry, takes the reader on a wild jaunt in the company of some rather intriguing characters — a young walker/poet, Em, a crusty old poet, Kulperstein, the alter ego/creation of a deceased poet, Felix Kaye, and there is the poet narrator. I know this might seem an odd question to start, but how did you come up with names for your ...
• e before i by Marilyn Potter I set out to find Glenn Gould’s gravesite. / Row 1088, Plot 1050. Nowhere near the rose garden. /   / I ...
• Winter Archive by Catherine Hunter Tonight, steel mesh of constellations and a die-cut moon. Flames in the northern sky / and sirens — another fire ...
• (hospital vespers) by John K. Samson Doctors played your dosage like a card-trick, / scrabbled down the hallways yelling “Yahtzee!” / I brought ...
• Girl, Walking by Méira Cook                              Ah you, bright you, / breaking day open like a dry loaf / and setting off ...
• Sad Steps by Alison Calder Stumbling back to bed after a pee / I’m startled by the stalker moon, peeping / Thomasina through the spare ...
• Spring Break by Sally Ito Spring break. Kids are on the loose in the mind and everywhere. / Down by the creek, they club the ice with thick ...
• Making Art in Winnipeg by Catherine Hunter To practice art in this particular town is risky. Like all particular towns, this one has its perils. Some say it’s the wind. Some say it’s the moment the summer sky’s split white by lightning. It’s the shadow of the peregrine falcon that haunts the high glass towers. It’s the black ice, the burning stubble, the reckless ...
• The Winnipeg Cold Storage Company by Jon Paul Fiorentino The title of “Winnipeg Cold Storage Company” poses the question of collective memory and what it means to say that ‘things might be done with storage’? The problem of collective memory is thus immediately bound up with a question of performance. What does it mean for storage not only to store, but also in some ...
• Notes on Systems, with Winnipeg in Mind by J.J. Kegan McFadden In recent years Winnipeg has had its reputation, at least in the visual arts, blossom internationally. With high profile group exhibitions in Ottawa, New York, San Francisco and Paris, artists from our prairie city have been talked about like never before. These exhibitions have favoured place over anything else, and ...
• found: by Rosanna Deerchild one city one poet one voice & one love letter   It took me a long time to call myself a writer. Even longer to put ‘poet’ next to my name. Back then, Rosanna Deerchild didn’t even exist. And if not for this place, none of it would have even happened.   After graduating from my town’s only high school in ...
• Process and Parody, Reading and Writing by Maurice Mierau I read Linda Besner’s debut The Id Kid (Véhicule, 2011) because I can’t imagine writing like this, for the perfect title, and because the book brims with energy, craft and humour. I suspect that she’s a process poet, but it’s too soon to tell. In “Dogwalker’s Lawsuit,” a typically satiric Besner poem, she appears to be ...