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Author: Jonathan Ball

Ariel Gordon
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Ariel Gordon

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 28, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

HAIRSHIRT   In mid-winter, the Conservatory is a space whose damp green, whose broken sunlight could be rented by the hour. People enter in parkas, sigh, then impatiently strip off…

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Hannah Green
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Hannah Green

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 22, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

IN THE KITCHEN I keep my grocery lists and advice in the same drawer. I was out of sorts looking for keep your chin up in the bakery. Perhaps sourdough?…

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Jenn Angela Lopes
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Jenn Angela Lopes

  • Posted on April 25, 2015September 19, 2017
  • by Jonathan Ball

THE BRIDGE COMMUNICATES   1913: In the tine of Pisces and Aries, Disraeli was ruminated on as bridge For aeons we’ve been blueprinted off of a sentence of a sort, no…

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Melanie Dennis Unrau
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Melanie Dennis Unrau

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 22, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

LIFE HACKS: COURSEWORK   sunflower seeds pistachios a burnt tongue still wags when the work lays flat knit when it doesn’t lift a ten-pound weight one-armed remove slipcovers walk the…

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New Winnipeg Poets Folio
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

New Winnipeg Poets Folio

  • Posted on April 25, 2015May 4, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

My daughter, wise beyond her 15 years, summed up Winnipeg the other day: “Everybody hates it here, but nobody wants to leave.” Her solution was that we should just all…

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Chimwemwe Undi
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Chimwemwe Undi

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 23, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

THE SHADOW MACHINE   “the internet is a cemetery where nothing ever dies” and when she does we crowd her parents’ kitchen counters with tulips and casseroles and careful sympathies…

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John Stintzi
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

John Stintzi

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 26, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

IN RESPONSE TO THE LOVE “SONNET” YOU SENT ME   If I could care less for your fucking sonnet, 
My chest would bloom wide open, and—in spite Of small decisions…

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Laura Lamont
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Laura Lamont

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 23, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

SUNDAY VISITS   And the wolves howl in the forest. Really a shrubbery, but the journey is to granny’s house, and she has teeth. Not pointy ones; these gnashers are…

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Cam Scott
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Cam Scott

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 23, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

CONTRA “Total risk through global refusal.” —Paul-Émile Borduas   A Crimson Sky 
A Dark Background
 All Enemies
 All Gods 
All Odds
 All Things Ending 
An Infinite Horizon Atheism 
Common Sense…

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Maurice Mierau
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Maurice Mierau

  • Posted on April 25, 2015September 17, 2017
  • by Jonathan Ball

THE FORMER REVEREND   He said he was a liar, so deeply in love with himself that his fortunes had increased while he avoided gay sex, drug use, and memories…

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Joanne Epp
  • New Winnipeg Poets Folio

Joanne Epp

  • Posted on April 25, 2015April 22, 2015
  • by Jonathan Ball

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD   If your home is near a park, you’ll live longer. If there’s a plant in your hospital room, you’ll need fewer Tylenol 3s. If you…

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