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This morning I awoke to some heavy rhymes. I caught only the last two lines: And we plan about snacks and not washing our hands/ And the letter J. and…
I watch my nine month old volley through the sounds of syllables, pre-language joy at the possible combinations of sounds. Moving through instinctual scales. Trying this sound with that. This…
Safety is boring, Vanessa Place Tweeted recently. Back to the present moment: Slavoj Zizek, Naomi Klein, Tzvetan Todorov, Saskia Sassen et al. Because contemporary poetry seems to have no sense…
One of the dirty little secrets about the whole women complaining about lack of representation in the book reviewing business is the fact that many women won’t review. Why won’t…
Lisa Robertson signs books at Pages, Calgary You are not alone. You need not limit your poetry to the kitchen, or the bedroom, or the garden, or the relational, or…
The shock of human loss is unforgiving, visceral, and total. And though we all suffer it, we do not all suffer it simultaneously. Occasionally we are lucky to find a…
Are you still thinking about lyric poetry? I am. To follow up on Jan Zwicky’s post on reviewing here she is talking about lyric and possibility of poetry.