Poem of the Week: Erín Moure from The Acts

Poem of the Week: Erín Moure from The Acts

_____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…

Joshua Whitehead: Can You Be My Fulltime Daddy: White&Gold[Questionmark]

Joshua Whitehead: Can You Be My Fulltime Daddy: White&Gold[Questionmark]

CAN YOU BE MY FULLTIME DADDY: WHITE&GOLD[QUESTIONMARK] : :: :: : : :::::: : : :: : : : :installingmusicsoftware: : :: :::: : : :: ::borntodierecordinstalled: :: : :…

Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.1

Welcome to Lemon Hound 3.0.1

Welcome! I’ve been chomping at the bit to get this first volume out to you—so much so that several parts of the whole slipped out of the kennel a little…

Review: Too Much and Not the Mood

Review: Too Much and Not the Mood

Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose, HarperCollins Canada (2017) “I have no pen…and not much to say, or rather too much and not the mood,” wrote Virginia Woolf…

David Bradford on Fred Moten: The Service Porch

David Bradford on Fred Moten: The Service Porch

The Service Porch, Fred Moten, Letter Machine Editions (2016). See, I’m extended contraband and longtime release pharmaceutical gift to the english department. “uc santa barbara and crenshaw follies”   grammar…

Lee Maracle Conversation 10: On Appropriation

Lee Maracle Conversation 10: On Appropriation

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…

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Two Poems

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Two Poems

LOVE AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS he told me he was into natives, but he couldn’t love the traumas hidden in my breathing.   how do you tell a ghost that It’s…

Essay: An Excerpt from Eden Robinson

Essay: An Excerpt from Eden Robinson

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…

Julie Carr: Two poems

Julie Carr: Two poems

THE LIGHT OF IS IS: ON ANGER The “recalibration theory of anger” posits that anger is developed through the process of natural selection as an effective bargaining tool Or, anger…

Canisia Lubrin: That Instrument of Laughter

Canisia Lubrin: That Instrument of Laughter

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,…

Rob Budde on Ken Belford

Rob Budde on Ken Belford

How Poems Work Rob Budde on Ken Belford’s “Slick Reckoning” In the poem there are no forbidden  gaps. What is added & what is replaced fills the lattice spacing of…

Sandra Simonds: Two Sonnets

Sandra Simonds: Two Sonnets

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…