The Weekend Read: Aram Saroyan

Travel I went all across the country A sense of humor The size of farm animals. or from Third Floor Voices/ Fall 1965/ New York the radiator, the radio louder…

Vintage Footage: Norman Mailer & Marshall McLuhan

Fabulous aesthetics to this piece, from the style of the introduction to the camera work to the actual texture of the discourse. Is it my imagination or is there, quite…

Blackout, Revisited | Enpipe Line, Enacted

The current issue of Vancouver lit magazine Subterrain has published essays by writers Elizabeth Bachinsky and Alex Leslie on their BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR project, an erasure-as-intervention experimental poetry response…

The Weekend Read: The Device

Fragment of Lisa Robertson The Deviceby Benjamin Spencer I left Lisa Robertson’s December reading at the Atwater in Montreal feeling conflicted. At first listen, her work seemed tight, complex – even cold.…

The Weekend Read: Sherman Alexie

THE EXAGGERATION OF DESPAIR   I open the door (this Indian girl writes that her brother tried to hang himself with a belt just two weeks after her other brother…

In Conversation: LH talks to Linda Griffiths

LH: As a non-actor who writes, and has some theater experience, I admit to a certain jealousy of the actor writer combination. Not only can you give a brilliant reading…

Fragment toward an essay on the mother, time and poetry

I am not who I thought I was. Without her, I have no idea. What will I do? What is that Sappho line about having two minds? Or Anne Carson’s…