from Surfaces (Invisible Publishing, 2018) By Eric Schmaltz Eric Schmaltz is an artist, writer, and educator living in Toronto. His work has been previously featured in Lemon Hound as well as Jacket2, The Capilano…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
Cityscape / hairnet At an event people sit in a circle (or is it a spiral?) around Jacob Wren, Aisha Sasha John and Adam Kinner. I met Adam Kinner years…
* I call you state, you call me city. Swing the trinkets every time you punch out. Text me again from the hill behind the community centre or the dry…
Sometime in the 1970s I transcribed a taped interview in which Daphne Marlatt spoke about writing, poetry, and language, perhaps the first of her “Vancouver” poems. It may have been…
Manifest Manifest A Spent Thing is, um, Gutting the Small Land. The Spent Thing of Being Together Everybody Makes Is a Small, Old Land, Having to Be Zealous. In the…
FOR YEARS THEY WANTED ME TO RESIST For years having witnessed revolving violence for years skin-bricked and sick, for years the pretty desolation of the morning, its inherent place for…
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…