Lynn Coady: Four Questions
Frankie Barnet: Place plays a significant role in your work. Stories like "Wireless", "Hellgoing" and "Another World" all seem to have an interest in exploring and critiquing cosmopolitan aspects of city life, as well as differences between city and country life. You yourself are from Cape Breton but now live in Edmonton. How important is...
Claudia Rankine: from Citizen
From the cover to the sequencing, from the command of the line to the glide from essay to poem to prose to meditation, Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric is a must read. There's persona, then there is the poem as both an intellectual scaffold and an actual body. The disorienting inhabiting of another's body,...
Call for Submissions: The New Vancouver Poets Folio
Lemonhound and Poetry Is Dead are teaming up to create a folio spotlighting New Vancouver Poets. Co-edited by Dina Del Bucchia and Daniel Zomparelli, we seek to publish work from Vancouver writers who have produced two books or less. We are seeking the freshest of texts. The known and unknown. The kinky and kind. The...
La Théorie, un dimanche: we want to hear from you
In celebration of Quebec's diverse writing by women, we're putting a celebratory folio together for the fall that captures the impact that La Théorie, un dimanche (remue-ménage, 1988) and its recent translation Theory, A Sunday (Belladonna*, 2013) has had since its initial publication in the eighties. We invite you to submit 300-800* words in any...
Josef Kaplan: Two Introductions
INTRODUCING TRISHA LOW I think we can all agree that “emotional poetry” is a disease. Maybe not the poetry. But the incessance of the emotional environment—the appeals to a “felt” response that exists only in its inconceivability, and its consequent legitimacy as a response recognized only insofar as it remains inconceivable—surely this can be described...
Elvia Wilk in Conversation with J. R. Carpenter
Electronic Literature is a loaded and slippery category. It is rather dryly defined by the Electronic Literature Organization (what other art form needs a governing body?) as “works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.” Does this mean everything or nothing? If there’s...
Max Bledstein on Omari Newton’s Sal Capone
Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of, a play by Omari Newton. MAI Centre, Montreal, 2013. By Max Bledstein The history of racial relations in North America has certainly been a topic of interest amongst filmmakers and playwrights in recent years, and one in which audiences have been happy to engage them. One need look no further...
Emily Keeler: Anne Carson at IFOA
Anne Carson Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The line is so long and the lobby is so small and we’re all here to see a poet who is improbably famous but very deservedly beloved. As soon as I take my seat in the dark theatre, I notice a who’s who trickling in, authors and publishers and...
Synapse: Guillaume Morrissette
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11402637" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] the last time I saw you I was so angry at the most unnegotiable parts of yourself that I thought “black hole lobbed around twice‟. my thoughts were distorted, this is how angry I was. it felt like I meant the anger and was afraid to lose...
