Nikki Sheppy on Gillian Savigny’s Notebook M

Notebook M, Gillian Savigny. Insomniac Press, 2012. Review by Nikki Sheppy Winner of the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Gillian Savigny’s Notebook M explores the poetic dimensions of the scientific…

Julie McIsaac: After Basho

THE OLD PUNK Out my window, honking horns stab at the drifting smoke from a thousand since-butted-out cigarettes. By my gate, dogs wait to walk, leashed or unleashed. I can…

Patricia Lockwood: Search “Lizard Vagina” and You Shall Find

Patricia Lockwood: Search “Lizard Vagina” and You Shall Find

SEARCH “LIZARD VAGINA” AND YOU SHALL FIND   A higher country had a question, a higher country searched and found me, and the name country of the country was north…

Alex Porco: Alice Burdick’s Notebooks

Alex Porco: Alice Burdick’s Notebooks

Alice Burdick’s Notebooks: A Gallery [Note: during the summer of 2013, Canadian poet Alice Burdick shared her personal “notebooks” with me. These notebooks cover the period between 1991 and 2003.…

Ken Babstock: Perfect Blue

Ken Babstock: Perfect Blue

Ken Babstock’s four collections include Mean, Days into Flatspin, and Airstream Land Yacht, finalist for The Governor General’s Award, The Griffin Prize, The Winterset Prize and winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.…

Lise Gaston on Daisy Fried & Elizabeth Bachinsky

The Hottest Summer in Recorded History, Elizabeth Bachinsky. Harbour Publishing, 2013. Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, Daisy Fried. University of Pittsburg Press, 2013. Review by Lise Gaston Elizabeth Bachinsky’s fifth…

Dani Couture: Two Poems

RED CROWN * How a Toronto pigeon sold for five thousand dollars, is delicately inserted into a tube, sleeps, and wakes in new hands in Dubai. * How the butcher…

Sue Sinclair: Orpheus Meets Eurydice In the Underworld

Sue Sinclair: Orpheus Meets Eurydice In the Underworld

ORPHEUS MEETS EURYDICE IN THE UNDERWORLD   Still limping, she has come. She waits at the foot of the hill, doesn’t dare go further, remembers how it once vanished under…

M. K. Sukach on William Stafford

M. K. Sukach on William Stafford

Passing Remark In scenery I like flat country. In life I don’t like much to happen. In personalities I like mild colorless people. And in colors I prefer gray and…

In Conversation: Sina Queyras & Adam Dickinson

In Conversation: Sina Queyras & Adam Dickinson

LH: I can’t think of a more extreme follow up to Kingdom, Phylum, but looking at Kingdom, Phylum again I thought, well, actually this kind of makes sense. Particularly given…

Margaret Christakos: Two Poems

Margaret Christakos: Two Poems

 VISA   To detail multitudes we the distance between brow and lip To detail multitudes we zoom To detail multitudes you count arrange by height I weigh To detail multitudes…

Nora Fulton: Four Poems

from Life Experience Coolant. BookThug, 2013. R EM P L I S S A G E How dare they call it emptiness, constitutional emptiness, whilst enjoying the finest qualia of life…