We feature a folio and a conversation with the Halifax poet. Originally published December 12, 2017. I’m reposting now in anticipation of a new review of Future Howl, Goyette’s latest. …
Category: Poetry & Poetics
I’m sharing a post today from June 26, 2009 in which Sheryda Warrener offers a reading of Karen Solie’s Pathology of the Senses from her third book, Pigeon. You can…
From the Archives. I’m posting my post, the introduction to Woolf’s essay, which comes after. I had been linking these on social media but I find I can’t actually be…
From March 15, 2018 and now famine, friend I of course, no living is continuous, we take what grows within we cast them out as though to bloodlet the life…
No Language is Neutral BY DIONNE BRAND In another place, not here, a woman might touch something between beauty and nowhere, back there and here, might pass hand over hand…
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Anne Boyer. Ugly Duckling Presse (2018). Against late capitalism’s yes, cruelly optimistic in its desire for automatonic affirmation of its circulation and law, Anne Boyer’s…
From Excess—The Factory (AK Press, 2018) By Leslie Kaplan, Translated by Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap The courtyard, crossing it. A factory courtyard’s absolute nostalgia. You walk between formless walls. Sheets…
Colm Tóibín noted, after watching countless performances of his play The Testament of Mary, “what happens to powerlessness once you add voice.” He was becoming aware of the power of…
Tatum Howey: Nathanaël is what we wish we could be. Nathanaël is the consequence or possibility of fruition of our actions. Nathanaël embodies what we desire. Desire makes you aware…
KNIFELIKE Three reptiles crane their necks, watching the shooting star. Consider the infinite possibility of a camera, then discontinue. …
Four poems from Dani Couture, excerpted from Listen Before Transmit. LISTEN BEFORE TRANSMIT After Peter Gizzi The connection severs itself due to your finger hovers A pause inactivity of a…
BUT TELL THE INCREDIBLE UNSTOPPABLE GIRL WONDER She’ll never regret starting over. Not how growing makes her arms and shoulders ache, or the weight of the quarter-folded tent, which she…