CBC on Canadian bloggers

And guess what, they’re pretty well all male! Over and over again, I have to point it out…if you think you guys are bored, what do you think it feels…

Brooklyn Rail interview

The Brooklyn Rail is great. This issue has an interview with Kate Braverman that made me want to buy her book, which I shall, and report back… But the interview…

The woman question: uplifting, or pinning down

At a dinner party scene on the L Word, Max shares an anecdote about lobsters: how it’s only male lobsters you have to worry about leaping out of the pot…

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…