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• A Walking Interview with bill bissett Interviewed by David Eso Most interviews are staid conversations in stable environments where the Q and A makes a metronome monotony that goes against everything bill bissett’s poetry stands for. So while riding the SkyTrain from East Vancouver to English Bay, I was trying to come up with ways to add fresh dynamics to the interview situation. I needn’t have bothered. Bill’s natural M.O. is as in MOvement and meeting up with him ...
• An Interview with Jennifer Still Interviewed by Clarise Foster Clarise Foster: Your new book, Girlwood, is quite stunning; Brick Books makes beautiful books, both inside and out. Congratulations. Talking with you in this issue marks an anniversary of sorts for me and for CV2. Back in 2001, I was in the midst of putting together the first issue of the magazine after it almost went under. It was called “Why Poetry,” and it featured interviews with and writing by ...
• Innocence by Nico Mara-McKay The gnarled tree is a presence / Standing back from the tiled walkway / Between the sun-baked paving stones ...
• Art Sometimes Makes Me Vague / L’art parfois me confond by Elana Wolff Art Sometimes Makes Me Vague                    /   / Some day we’ll live in the sky, Birdine. The big idea. ...
• Answers to Wittgenstein’s Seven Propositions by Andrew Reid What is the case? / Small infractions. Bent brier, turned leaf: / integers opening the whole / a trail ...
• Less by Heather Campbell It’s a morning of razor-cut tissue wrap over the ridges. It’s breakfast by touch, / molar-pinching coffee. It’s ...
• Frigidarium by Brecken Hancock Navy blue in the hall. / Five and five doors / and blue navy rising, / rising under the underslots. / ...
• South by Jennifer Still Grand Forks, Fargo, any North Dakota town with a Super8 / and a Target. To be out of your mind was really to be / ...
• Field Test by Jennifer Still Twenty years measuring / strangers’ eyes, entire fields / of vision. Despair and happiness /   / look ...
• Contest winner The Angle of Repose by Heidi Garnett Unlike the western slopes and save for the Thompson River, / the northernmost edge of the Cascade Mountain Range ...
• Contest winner Cockatoos by P.S. Cottier Yes, we've heard their sad repetitions, / the 'pieces of eight', the rote 'Pretty boys', / dropped from tired ...
• Contest winner Breast Reduction by Maxine Hayden Beep beep beep beep the regular heart beat. / Whoosh, ventilator for every breath. / Acrid smelling blue ...
• Contest winner Alice Underground by Frances Boyle Night-blind she fingers the rosary, wraps it round, / mumbles prayers by rote.  Only the feel of the beads / ...
• Contest winner the colony by Andrea Fraser china doll in full fatigues / splayed across the jungle floor /   / yellowed curls quibble against lex ...
• Contest winner New Old Place by Amanda Baker-Patterson We move into a 90-year-old building / on top of Seattle’s steepest hill. / Cascade of pavement breaking onto ...
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  Review: Cantilevered Songs by John Lent Reviewed by Richard Stevenson John Lent composes in long loping lines, often in mellifluous sentences, rather than breaking his lines on phrase, or against the grain of his syntax, though he’ll also narrow down the line to a pneumatic drill on occasion too, or let it eddy and pool at the ...
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  Review: Indexical Elegies by Jon Paul Fiorentino Reviewed by jenn angela lopes Jon Paul Fiorentino’s Indexical Elegies gorgeously unbolts the process of desiring machines. According to former French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and former militant analyst Félix Guattari, “Desire does not lack anything; it does not lack its object. It is, ...