The See, Jessica MacCormack. Paper Pusher, 2013. by Jacob Wren On the third page of The See, interdisciplinary artist Jessica MacCormack writes: I have been in therapy for a Very…
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by Kathryn Mockler “…capitalism has a knack for devouring and absorbing everything in its path—including any critique of capitalism.” (from Notes on Conceptualisms) When I taught an experimental writing course…
By Hannah Weber The space of the city: a moving, speaking mass, dense and ever-proliferating, systematically or organically without end. Ostensibly, by virtue of its concentration of diverse peoples, the…
NECK SPASMS All my poems come shaped as birds after they died. My friends, the heavy soft bargains, yes you can. The confabulists, identical with capital. Soupy neckties in the…
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility, Théodora Armstrong. House of Anansi Press, 2013. by David Huebert Théodora Armstrong’s debut short fiction collection, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility, is an…
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews This book has (accurately) been called “darkly funny.” It’s also got a definite CanLit feel. There are flashbacks. It’s set in a small town.…
GATE BY W.S. MERWIN Once I came back to the leaves just as they were falling into the rattling of magpies and the waving flights through treetops beyond the long…
Renovate me like one of your Victorians, San Francisco. So begins THIS DRAWN & QUARTERED MOON, which finds humor in romance, romance in humor. San Francisco quickens its lyric pulse. As…
“When In A Slur I Understand”: Tourism and the Lyric Self in Stephanie Bolster’s “Beyond Saint Petersburg” by Adam Sol This essay is part of a larger project about the self…
And also of the energy between paragraphs. The energy of white space. Here is Liz Bachinsky quoting Richard Ford on the torque that happens in a story when the author…
The Virtues of Poetry. Can an academic monograph make you tremble and shudder, sweat and cackle, tingle and swell? Can it move you more than any piece of fiction or…
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, Denis Wood. 2nd Edition. Siglio, 2013. Gibber, angela rawlings. 2012. by Nick Thran To simply reiterate that we are haunted by the devastation that human consumption…