by Stuart Ross A couple of weeks ago, Lillian Necakov, Jim Smith, Nicholas Power and I read at the St. Clair/Silverthorn Library, where Lillian is head librarian. The four of us have known each other since the 1980s, and we’ve read in various assortments, but never all of us together, so it was an evening […]
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The Delights of Wood Panelling
by Leigh Nash I’m a sucker for punishment; no matter how many things I have on the go, when something else amazing turns up, I can’t say no. This is how, for the last couple of Sundays, I’ve found myself in the lovely seminar room above new bookstore Of Swallows, Their Deeds, & the Winter […]
Guys Do It All the Time: On Meaghan Strimas’s A Good Time Had By All
Reviewed by Alessandro Porco A Good Time Had By All Meaghan Strimas Exile, 2010 88 pages, $18.95 Let’s just get this out of the way: I’m really digging Meaghan Strimas’s A Good Time Had by All (Exile, 2010). It’s a book filled with consistently good poems and a small few that are as high-quality as […]
A Translation from Jim Smith
Otto Rene Castillo To the interrogation of fruit, flowers, bones. I say heart, mornings, joy. Little country of mine, blind, voiceless, Walk with me, mountains, sing, Invent hurricanes, & know this, colonel: When I burn Only I burn. [from my translation of 4 poems by Castillo found on internet April 10, 2010] Jim Smith is […]
Two Poems: A Peter Norman Preview
Recursion I fall awake alone. Outside, nocturnal rain ascends. Alarms rage, summoning a thief who hurries to the store, unpacks his duffel sack, replaces items on the shelf. Morning. The plane dispenses you. We enfold each other, celebrating your undeparture. Tears scroll up our cheeks, nestle into ducts. Last night we wake sweat-soaked and sated, […]
12 or 20 questions: with Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
12 or 20 questions: with Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
Dispatch From My Couch
by Marianne Apostolides I have a favoured reading spot in my home. Sometimes it glows like a mystical oracle, possessed of all the words I’ve absorbed there these past four years, since I moved into this apartment. (My place occupies the first floor of an old High Park house; my landlords live upstairs. She’s a […]
Poetry on the Way
by Leigh Nash I recently started working at a new job that requires me to commute on the subway for half an hour, morning and evening, in and around rush hour. That in itself is disorienting, as I’ve spent the better part of the last three years working freelance, often not getting dressed before noon […]
Jesse Patrick Ferguson discusses Peter Norman’s poem “Playground Incident”
Jesse Patrick Ferguson discusses Peter Norman’s poem “Playground Incident”
Debunking the Myth of Newness
Gregory Betts reviews David Shield’s Reality Hunger Reality Hunger: A Manifesto David Shields Knopf, 2010 240 pages, $24.95 “89: If my forgeries are hung long enough in the museum, they become real.” David Shields — prize-winning author and almost New York Times bestseller — has a new book out that contemporary prose writers would be […]
