The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee
Democratically Applied Machine by Robert Colmon
Standing On The Shoulders Of Our Mentors
Red Rover, Red Rover by Bob Hicok
Side Effects May Include Strangers By Dominik Parisien
I have to admit I was not prepared for how exquisite the first poem “Let Us For A Moment Call This Pain By Other Words” is in Dominik Parisien’s debut poetry collection Side Effects May Include Strangers out with McGill-Queen’s … Continue reading
The Only Card In A Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner
her debut collection The Only Card In A Deck of Knives out with Wolsak &Wynn publishers, the poet Lauren Turner takes us “to the edge of something” as she writes in the first line of her poem “If You Haven’t … Continue reading
Spotlight Poem #3: “Standing together against ourselves” by Bob Hicok
STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST OURSELVES
When an apple starts to form on the mountain
behind my back or you cross the street
to my left and we nod or a bird stops singing,
takes out a notebook and writes, What is … Continue reading
A Meta-Textual Hive: Double Self-Portrait By James Lindsay
Confessions of A Prize-Winning Poet
When my first book came out, I was suddenly thrust into the spotlight as “an up and coming young Canadian poet to watch out for” simply by having the good luck to land on a few awards lists. My book … Continue reading
Spotlight Poem #3: “Tough and rumble” by Alice Burdick
Tough and rumble
A view of waves & breaks,
sword into fog. A child in a seat
talks to a child in another seat.
The bicyclist drops a bag of paper
lanterns and they roll through the intersection at dusk,… Continue reading
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite by Conyer Clayton
first line from the poem “Seeds” in Conyer Clayton’s debut collection We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite out with Guernica Editions is “I pray to catch on fire” which puts me in mind of Gwendolyn MacEwen’s lines, “who made me … Continue reading
If You Discover A Fire by Shaun Robinson
Curtis LeBlanc’s Birding In The Glass Age Of Isolation
Curtis LeBlanc’s Birding In The Glass Age of Isolation, mental illness, masculinity, and storytelling are all explored in this worthy follow-up to his first book Little Wild (2018). Like the hunters he writes about, LeBlanc practices patience and careful … Continue reading