Sometime in the 1970s I transcribed a taped interview in which Daphne Marlatt spoke about writing, poetry, and language, perhaps the first of her “Vancouver” poems. It may have been…
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Great reading the other night at D&Q. Standouts for me were these two. Double wows. We have an excerpt up from Paige. I offer a sample from Years, Months, and…
How does power get situated? How do women hold it? In a correspondence recently someone used “unempowered” to describe someone with lack of access to power. They aren’t the same…
DELILAH TALKS TO HERSELF “Hallelujah” from Various Positions (1984) If Leonard Cohen writes of her love then she knows this love to be a true love. He’s kneeling in her…
TO THE EXTENT A TRADITION CAN BE SAID TO BE DEVELOPED; IT IS MORE ACCURATE TO SAY IT CAN BE CLOTHED IN DIFFERENT FORMS As three persons in one, I…
VIII. ANTIGONE Juliette: Antigone is like a bomb. She has three scenes and they’re like the bombs of the play somehow. Because from that there are consequences. Anne: Reverberations. Juliette:…
Queer Grace No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in…
This week’s poem of the week is from our own archives. We posted this in April, 2013. It’s made of reviews of women’s work. It’s still relevant. Also see Zoe’s…
We are happy to start the new year off with two pieces from Chase Berggrun’s R E D, an excavation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, forthcoming from Birds, LLC. Berggrun is a…
I’m posting this classic Virginia Woolf essay as a reminder that the personal is always interesting if it is live and in context; if there is a pulse at the…
Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.2! As the days get shorter, our list (and wish list!) of content grows longer. We have been working to bring you fresh and meaningful content…
Halifax poet Sue Goyette is the author of six books of poetry including Ocean, a finalist for the 2014 Griffin Prize for Poetry, and more recently Penelope, published last month…