Stacy Szymaszek, Emptied of all Ships

I am so behind in the reviews and posts, and here this book is, bobbing like a sail on the horizon of my room where it has been sitting next…

Because misogyny is everywhere!

Bat Barbie, ready to pounce! Patrolling the outer reaches of language… Bat Barbie has threatened to join the Poetics Listserv. She feels strongly that the power of humour and satire…

Yale Review on Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets

I’m not one to preen, but today’s news prompts such a post. Apparently the Yale Review is calling Open Field the most important anthology of the year… I’m just a…

Ask and ye shall receive…more bp Nichol

More bp Nichol on the U Penn site: bp Nichol Audio Archive, ed. Lori Emerson This is great news. But someone, please, create a similar site dedicated to Canadian poets…

Jen Benka is way cool

As posted last week, I heard Jen Benka read at “Battle Hill”, the Brooklyn Reading Series located on Smith Street, at Bar Below–a bar in the basement of the restaurant…

On the way from the subway

A mother and son with no front teethTwo slices of squished pizzaOne man without legsTwo babies in red capsOne man with seven facial piercingsThe tail of an animalToo many discarded…

Poem by Zang Er

Nu Shu: The Secret Language of Women* Hey you guys, Shut up! From sight progress by Zang Er Translated from Chinese with Rachel Levitsky *NuShu literally translated as ‘female script’…