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…
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From Excess—The Factory (AK Press, 2018) By Leslie Kaplan, Translated by Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap The courtyard, crossing it. A factory courtyard’s absolute nostalgia. You walk between formless walls. Sheets…
* 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…
This is an excerpt from a longer chapter titled “Notes on Rape Culture” and is posted with permission from the author. Every now and then in the writing of this,…
_____1_____ compression. To use a kind of compression, so compressed that the links between the image/phrase break down, but the whole poem still retains its connection. inter-text. Using and repeating…
Most people seem to be using appropriation when they include a Native character in their story. One of the people who was accused of appropriation in the 1980s was the…
The Haisla measure of intelligence is slightly different from that of mainstream culture. Three main indicators are an ability to trace your family roots back to mythic times, not having…
THAT INSTRUMENT OF LAUGHTER Nowadays I like to say cool Cool cool thrashing my tongue like iguana before even a li’l wind ruffle my branch. Because that was the dark,…
IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THE WORLD IS FORMED Then undone, undid, undo. Into you’ll see until. No till nor record keeping, no tock unbinding. No backward grandfather clock unearthing. All…
RISK, ON AND SCREEN OFF At 15, when I first watched My Own Private Idaho, my sexuality was still a fetal idea. But even though there are few women in…
Belladonna’s new translation of Theory, A Sunday comes to us just in time to respond to a resurgence of pop feminism—on This is What a Feminist Looks Like t-shirts, at…