Sue Goyette: Six poems

Sue Goyette: Six poems

Six poems from Sue Goyette. We feature a folio and a conversation with the Halifax poet. from Ocean nine The idea of home was so big, so bottomless, carpenters had…

Suzanne Zelazo on Janieta Eyre’s Eye Rhymes

Suzanne Zelazo on Janieta Eyre’s Eye Rhymes

“Eye Rhymes: An Introduction to the Photography of Janieta Eyre,” Suzanne Zelazo As an innovator and agitator, Janieta Eyre (1966–) has pioneered an integrative photographic aesthetic that pushes the boundaries…

Joshua Whitehead: Can You Be My Fulltime Daddy: White&Gold[Questionmark]

Joshua Whitehead: Can You Be My Fulltime Daddy: White&Gold[Questionmark]

CAN YOU BE MY FULLTIME DADDY: WHITE&GOLD[QUESTIONMARK] : :: :: : : :::::: : : :: : : : :installingmusicsoftware: : :: :::: : : :: ::borntodierecordinstalled: :: : :…

Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.1

Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.1

Welcome! I’ve been chomping at the bit to get this first volume out to you—so much so that several parts of the whole slipped out of the kennel a little…

Lee Maracle Conversation 10: On Appropriation

Lee Maracle Conversation 10: On Appropriation

Most people seem to be using appropriation when they include a Native character in their story. One of the people who was accused of appropriation in the 1980s was the…

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Two Poems

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Two Poems

LOVE AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS he told me he was into natives, but he couldn’t love the traumas hidden in my breathing.   how do you tell a ghost that It’s…

Julie Carr: Two poems

Julie Carr: Two poems

THE LIGHT OF IS IS: ON ANGER The “recalibration theory of anger” posits that anger is developed through the process of natural selection as an effective bargaining tool Or, anger…

Canisia Lubrin: That Instrument of Laughter

Canisia Lubrin: That Instrument of Laughter

THAT INSTRUMENT OF LAUGHTER Nowadays I like to say cool Cool cool thrashing my tongue like iguana before even a li’l wind ruffle my branch. Because that was the dark,…

Rob Budde on Ken Belford

Rob Budde on Ken Belford

How Poems Work Rob Budde on Ken Belford’s “Slick Reckoning” In the poem there are no forbidden  gaps. What is added & what is replaced fills the lattice spacing of…

Sandra Simonds: Two Sonnets

Sandra Simonds: Two Sonnets

IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THE WORLD IS FORMED Then undone, undid, undo. Into you’ll see until. No till nor record keeping, no tock unbinding. No backward grandfather clock unearthing. All…

Alessandro Porco on Steve Venright’s Variegraphy

Alessandro Porco on Steve Venright’s Variegraphy

I believe in domains of exis­tence vivid and com­pelling beyond even this mirac­u­lous real­ity we call the world.[i] – Steve Venright Canadian poet, pataphysician, and psychonaut Steve Venright has been…

Kim Fu on Claire Messud

Kim Fu on Claire Messud

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud, W.W. Norton, 2017 Reviewed by Kim Fu Julia Robinson, the protagonist of Claire Messud’s latest novel The Burning Girl, is a study in privilege…