Elizabeth Bachinsky reads K. Silem Mohammad
The Nose To, the Tens No, the Not Ens, the Sent On, the S o n n e t “…she is very capricious; one cannot summon or foresee her; she comes as happiness comes, hands filled with an achievement that is already in flower.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, on rhyme. K. Silem Mohammad is currently...
Lynne Tillman, for example
Life is strange. So should fiction be. Or, there are a thousand and one ways to tell a story. Hear Lynne Tillman read “Hung Up“.
parc jarry, post storm
We enjoy compiling the slender catalogue of our city’s modesty.–Lisa Robertson The vast and bumpy green of the urban expanse is broken by a Maple. Silver, one would guess from the seat of one’s bicycle. Urban appears in description after description of parc Jarry, as if wishing to transform the suburban before our very eyes....
How we talk when we talk about writing…
What do we want from book reviews?? This is at the core of my How Poems Work and Guest Posts, what do we actually want from this genre of writing? What is the purpose? Consider the whole discussion–if it can be called that–of the recent Urqhuart anthology. What is at the center of these arguments?...
Je refuse
No more of this “salon des refuses” nastiness. I refuse the refusers and the non-refusers alike. This is not a productive conversation.
Reception, New York Public Library
Reception, New York Public Library, originally uploaded by lemon hound. She takes your questions and she looks fabulous doing it. Sending people on for a glimpse into the Reading Room, or to the Ladies Room. She is part marble herself, and part sculpture with that swoop of slightly orange tinged hair. Are those sunglasses? Faux...
Laurie Anderson, elsewhere, and autumn in the air
Autumn in the air, and the lure of galleries, the clean walls, the sheen of matte concrete like hardened sand soft under foot. he sensed parts of himself elsewhere, originally uploaded by lemon hound. This last week of August, the first week of September, like a funnel, shifting us back indoors. And so appropriately or...
From Poetic Front
Christine Stewart and… 15T – I’m left feeling stupid before the fact. I feel like I asked and answered these questionstwenty-five years ago. The eternal return. C – Sometimes I find that I have answered these questions – in old notebooks – but forgetor shift and then have to start all over again and so...
Marilyn Hacker on Gwendolyn Brooks, plus 5 Questions
The Rites for Cousin Vit Carried her unprotesting out the door Kicked back the casket-stand. But it can’t hold her, That stuff and satin aiming to enfold her, The lid’s contrition nor the bolts before. Oh oh. Too much. Too much. Even now, surmise, She rises in the sunshine. There she goes Back to the...
Guest Posts, or How Poems Work
The idea for the guest posts stems from my appreciation of the How Poems Work column that the Globe & Mail ran a few years back. The posts were generally insightful and instructive, opening up poems and poetry not only to other poets, but to the uninitiated. Some of them became useful pedagogical tools. Some...
Michael Ondaatje, O.C.
Michael Ondaatje, O.C., originally uploaded by johnwmacdonald. Another great one from John W. Macdonald. His photo stream on flickr is packed with great shots. Do check it out.
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