Elizabeth O’Brien: one poem

Elizabeth O’Brien: one poem

BUT TELL THE INCREDIBLE UNSTOPPABLE GIRL WONDER She’ll never regret starting over. Not how growing makes her arms and shoulders ache, or the weight of the quarter-folded tent, which she…

Eric Schmaltz: from Surfaces

Eric Schmaltz: from Surfaces

from Surfaces (Invisible Publishing, 2018) By Eric Schmaltz Eric Schmaltz is an artist, writer, and educator living in Toronto. His work has been previously featured in Lemon Hound as well as Jacket2, The Capilano…

Klara du Plessis: one poem

Klara du Plessis: one poem

Cityscape / hairnet At an event people sit in a circle (or is it a spiral?) around Jacob Wren, Aisha Sasha John and Adam Kinner. I met Adam Kinner years…

Simon Brown: one poem

Simon Brown: one poem

Manifest Manifest A Spent Thing is, um, Gutting the Small Land. The Spent Thing of Being Together Everybody Makes Is a Small, Old Land, Having to Be Zealous. In the…

Zoe Imani Sharpe: one poem

Zoe Imani Sharpe: one poem

FOR YEARS THEY WANTED ME TO RESIST For years having witnessed revolving violence for years skin-bricked and sick, for years the pretty desolation of the morning, its inherent place for…

Call for Submissions: Spring Creep

Call for Submissions: Spring Creep

Procrastinators rejoice! If you missed your chance to submit to our last call, you’re in luck: we’ve decided to ride the wave of volume 3.0.3 by reopening submissions for a…

Poem of the Week: Divya Victor

Poem of the Week: Divya Victor

from “How to survive on land if you are made from paper”: wipe the pews when your knees smear their grain; leave no trace dog-ear no holy book admit nothing…

Poem of the Week: Hoa Nguyen’s “Birthday Poem”

Poem of the Week: Hoa Nguyen’s “Birthday Poem”

Birthday Poem Illuminated behind a skin a grey      the sky with fat fast slants of snow Fire Horse poet      This is a birthday poem   squeaky underfoot…

Lemon Hound 3.0.3: NOT YOUR MOTHER’S FUTURE

Lemon Hound 3.0.3: NOT YOUR MOTHER’S FUTURE

Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.3. This iteration of Lemon Hound is the third and final volume of a year-long trial association of the magazine with a course at Concordia University…

Paige Cooper: an excerpt from Zolitude

Paige Cooper: an excerpt from Zolitude

THANATOS from Zolitude (Biblioasis, 2018) By Paige Cooper This view, I make explicit to the child, has shattered the unity through which I had thought I could extend my sovereignty…

In Conversation: Phoebe Fregoli and Will Aitken

In Conversation: Phoebe Fregoli and Will Aitken

ANNE CARSON, ANTIGONE, AND THE PERILOUSNESS OF THEATRE: IN CONVERSATION WITH WILL AITKEN Phoebe Fregoli: I wanted to start—I know that you mentioned in your book that you were going…

Jessica Michalofsky: prose

Jessica Michalofsky: prose

BABIES CW: Graphic sexual scenes, NSFW When I come home, there is no one there. I make a hasty transformation. In the bedroom, I strip off my clothes—stockings and garter…