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,...
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...
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...
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...
