Lisa Roberston on Dionne Brand

Lisa Roberston on Dionne Brand

No Language is Neutral BY DIONNE BRAND In another place, not here, a woman might touch something between beauty and nowhere, back there and here, might pass hand over hand…

sue sinclair bio

Sue Sinclair has published four books of poetry, all of which have been nominated for awards including the Pat Lowther Award, the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.  Her…

Thank You for the Window Office by Maged Zaher

Review by Fazeela Jiwa Maged Zaher’s Thank You for the Window Office, feels like a cozy cringe. A cringe because the poem etches an encompassing sense of disillusionment against the…

Michael Redhill on Albert Goldbarth (DONE!)

Coin BY ALBERT GOLDBARTH When the surgeons slit into my father they went to Jupiter they went so far, to a barren red moon of Jupiter’s. I’d never been there.…

Books Received

(Title, followed by artist bio) “When the Saints Go Marching In” a novel by: Anthony Bidulka has been an accountant, a teacher, and a cook. He is a world traveller…

Books Recieved

As of September 26, 2017 As of July 2017 A Swarm of Bees in High Court, Tonya M. Foster, belladonna 2015 Cancer Angel, Beth Murray, belladonna 2015 Gates & Fields,…

Alisha Dukelow on Anne Boyer: A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

Alisha Dukelow on Anne Boyer: A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

 A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Anne Boyer. Ugly Duckling Presse (2018). Against late capitalism’s yes, cruelly optimistic in its desire for automatonic affirmation of its circulation and law, Anne Boyer’s…

Leslie Kaplan: an excerpt from Excess—The Factory

Leslie Kaplan: an excerpt from Excess—The Factory

From Excess—The Factory (AK Press, 2018) By Leslie Kaplan, Translated by Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap The courtyard, crossing it. A factory courtyard’s absolute nostalgia. You walk between formless walls. Sheets…

Lemon Hound 3.0.4: Spring Creep

Lemon Hound 3.0.4: Spring Creep

Colm Tóibín noted, after watching countless performances of his play The Testament of Mary, “what happens to powerlessness once you add voice.” He was becoming aware of the power of…

There Is No Capital I: In Conversation with Nathanaël

There Is No Capital I: In Conversation with Nathanaël

Tatum Howey: Nathanaël is what we wish we could be. Nathanaël is the consequence or possibility of fruition of our actions. Nathanaël embodies what we desire. Desire makes you aware…

Alex Manley: two poems

Alex Manley: two poems

KNIFELIKE Three reptiles crane their necks, watching the shooting star. Consider the infinite possibility of a camera,                    then discontinue.     …

Dani Couture: four poems from Listen Before Transmit

Dani Couture: four poems from Listen Before Transmit

Four poems from Dani Couture, excerpted from Listen Before Transmit. LISTEN BEFORE TRANSMIT After Peter Gizzi The connection severs itself due to your finger hovers A pause inactivity of a…