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…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
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…
Procrastinators rejoice! If you missed your chance to submit to our last call, you’re in luck: we’ve decided to ride the wave of volume 3.0.3 by reopening submissions for a…
from “How to survive on land if you are made from paper”: wipe the pews when your knees smear their grain; leave no trace dog-ear no holy book admit nothing…
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…
Birthday Poem Illuminated behind a skin a grey the sky with fat fast slants of snow Fire Horse poet This is a birthday poem squeaky underfoot…
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…
Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.3. This iteration of Lemon Hound is the third and final volume of a year-long trial association of the magazine with a course at Concordia University…
This Is the Homeland, Mary Hickman. Ashahta Press (2015). POEMS FOR THE WAYWARD PILGRIM: MARY HICKMAN’S THIS IS THE HOMELAND As a surgical technologist assisting in open-heart surgery, Mary Hickman…
This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt. Frontenac House (2017). In her essay “Queer Feelings,” from The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Sara Ahmed writes, “Sexual orientation involves bodies that leak…
SAILOR GARBAGE What garbage you are. What garbage you are. What simmering garbage. What are you simmering garbage? Here are the things that are eternal: 1. Garbage 2.…
The Babysitter at Rest, Jen George. Dorothy Project (2016) Writing a review for the five stories that comprise Jen George’s debut collection, The Babysitter at Rest, has been somewhat of…