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Author: Melissa

Nelly Arcan: Speed Dating
  • Essays & Fragments

Nelly Arcan: Speed Dating

  • Posted on February 14, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Melissa

In 2007, under the direction of Jérôme Garcin, Seuil published an anthology titled New Mythologies. The anthology’s title was a nod to Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, which had been published fifty…

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Indigenous Literature: Book Interview by Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy
  • In Conversation

Indigenous Literature: Book Interview by Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy

  • Posted on September 27, 2013November 22, 2013
  • by Melissa

Ceremonies for the Dead, Giles Benaway. Kegedeonce Press, 2013 I want to share my thanks and appreciation Giles, for allowing your first published collection of poems to be a dwelling place…

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Poetry Doesn’t Care: An Interview with Rachel Rose
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Poetry Doesn’t Care: An Interview with Rachel Rose

  • Posted on February 20, 2013April 27, 2013
  • by Melissa

Rachel Rose has won national awards for her poetry, her fiction, and her non-fiction. She has published poems, short stories and essays in Canada, the U.S., New Zealand and Japan,…

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Words into Pictures: An Interview with Julie Doucet
  • Art & Artists

Words into Pictures: An Interview with Julie Doucet

  • Posted on February 19, 2013April 17, 2013
  • by Melissa

By Frederik Byrn Køhlert Julie Doucet is a Montreal-based artist who reached an international audience with her personal and innovative comics from the ’80s and ’90s. While her comics work…

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George Elliott Clarke: Three Poems
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George Elliott Clarke: Three Poems

  • Posted on February 15, 2013September 8, 2013
  • by Melissa

    John Wentworth, Governor of Nova Scotia: Libertine   I.   My Lady’s Champagne sex— bubbly, prickly, toasts a garden-party orgy.   Madame sports cake-frosting lace, but she’s just…

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Stephen Burt: Three Poems
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Stephen Burt: Three Poems

  • Posted on February 15, 2013September 8, 2013
  • by Melissa

  An Atlas of the Atlas Moth Now I am an adult & I will never eat again. All the weight & elaboration that ever took in a morsel of…

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Marcella Durand: 4 Poems
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Marcella Durand: 4 Poems

  • Posted on February 15, 2013April 17, 2013
  • by Melissa

  Pastoral leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and branch and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and postcard of greenish sunset and leaf…

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Charles Bernstein: “Misfortune”
  • Poetry & Poetics

Charles Bernstein: “Misfortune”

  • Posted on February 15, 2013September 8, 2013
  • by Melissa

Misfortune after Nerval’s “El Desdichado” My morning star’s dead and my disconsolate lute Smashes in the blackened sun of torn alibi. In the tomb of every night, memories of Venetian…

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A Guy on the Rack, Falling in Love: An Anti-Interview with Jim Smith
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A Guy on the Rack, Falling in Love: An Anti-Interview with Jim Smith

  • Posted on February 15, 2013November 9, 2019
  • by Melissa

JIM SMITH’s many books include the recent Back Off, Assassin! New and Selected Poems (Mansfield Press, 2009) and Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra (Mansfield Press, 2012). His magazine, The Front, lasted from about 1972 to 1980, and…

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Dana Ward: “God Only Knows That I Can’t Look Away”
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Dana Ward: “God Only Knows That I Can’t Look Away”

  • Posted on February 15, 2013April 17, 2013
  • by Melissa

God Only Knows That I Can’t Look Away for Sarah Valentine is still my favorite word. But really ‘and’ is. ‘and’ & ‘or’, as well as ‘anyway’ like ‘anyway…’ &…

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Vanessa Place: “I Will Fuck You in the Ass”
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Vanessa Place: “I Will Fuck You in the Ass”

  • Posted on February 15, 2013February 19, 2019
  • by Melissa

My favorite love poem was originally by Mike Tyson, though I have since appropriated it. It captures all the ambivalence and drive of desire that cannot be quenched and will…

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The Artist Is Present: J. Mae Barizo on Marina Abramović
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The Artist Is Present: J. Mae Barizo on Marina Abramović

  • Posted on February 14, 2013April 17, 2013
  • by Melissa

By Melissa Bull I met J. Mae in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2007. We were both enrolled in writing classes with Summer Literary Seminars. J. Mae’s poetry workshop was in…

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