I’ve had the good luck to visit Spain three times in the last two years — Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Frigiliana, Malaga and, most recently, León and Galicia in the northwest. Each time I went looking for traces of the Spanish Civil War. I came back with mere traces. In Barcelona, the city had a small […]
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Jason Heroux sends a Hoboken Postcard
Friday, May 29, 2009: I’m in Hoboken, New Jersey, with my father, staying in one of the vacant dormitories at the Stevens Institute of Technology. My father spent a memorable portion of his childhood growing up in this area, and a part of him one day wants his ashes buried near Helmer’s Restaurant, where they […]
Jason Heroux praises parking lots
A little while ago a friend asked why I had so much parking-lot imagery in my poetry. I wasn’t sure how to answer. I gave it some thought and realized there’s something about parking lots I’ve always found beautiful and mysterious, especially late at night when they’re empty. — Collapse They have a peaceful, Zen-like […]
Nailing Down the Hard Parts: The Challenge of First Books
by Zachariah Wells Our culture seems particularly keen on celebrating the emergence of new poets. Since the 1930s, we have heralded the arrival of new generations of poets in anthologies which are the textual equivalent to debutantes’ balls or high school graduation ceremonies: momentous to the participants and their families, but of very little […]
Stuart Ross talks Fall Books
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been giddily working on manuscripts with two brilliant poets who are new to Mansfield. Robert Earl Stewart is a young poet from Windsor, Ontario, who has been popping up more and more frequently in literary journals recently. Mansfield is proud to be publishing his fall 2009 debut, Something […]
Christopher Doda on Translation
Like all writers, my partner and I have a number of perpetual grouses about the writing world. One of ours is the scarcity of translation done in Canada, especially of poetry, and especially by poets. A casual perusal of the biographies of major poets worldwide will show that most have engaged in translation work. In […]
“Hello!” from Alice Burdick
Well, hello there! A little introduction: I’m Alice Burdick. I was born and raised in Toronto, and have lived also in Espanola, Ontario (for a year!), and in Vancouver and Robert’s Creek. B.C., before moving out to Halifax in 2002. Now I live in beautiful Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. It’s a tiny town with an […]
