December 20, 2022 – 8:34 pm
MICHELINE MAYLOR FEATURES KIT DOBSON Dr. Kit Dobson is an extraordinary professor and essayist at the University of Calgary. I call him extraordinary because he hasn’t let the grind of academia turn him into a corporate automaton. While he is not a poet, I chose his work because of its lyrical and poetic heft at […]
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December 20, 2022 – 8:28 pm
Styx and Stones I have a secret wilderness I keep inside, tight as spider-eggs tucked in for the winter and waiting to be far flung, strung, then tamped tight as a forest floor. What visions turn to currency? Now that anger is done, I’ve devastated you like a Wall Street Banker of a Saturday bender. […]
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December 6, 2022 – 6:04 pm
Susan Browne Features Chelsea Harlan Recently, I’ve fallen in love with the work of American poet Chelsea Harlan, currently living and working as a librarian in upstate New York. Her debut poetry book, Bright Shade, won the 2022 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Jericho Brown. I’m still trying to figure out why I’m attracted […]
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December 6, 2022 – 4:59 pm
Bonanza Amanda shows me my bones, A picture of my spine, ghost-like, Snake-like, like it could rattle. I say, Amanda, it looks crooked, why Is that? She shrugs, You’re not the only one. Your bone-density’s fine. You can go now. My plebeian spine walks me toward The mammogram room where I flop my […]
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November 26, 2022 – 8:22 pm
Pete Sillanpaa Never Loved the Moon Aino died first and Pete lost heart. Spent his last years at the Finnish rest home in South Vancouver. The farm by Punch Creek: two small fields along the road, the gooseberries, the sauna, the green and white house with the steep pitched roof, all sold off to someone […]
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November 20, 2022 – 6:06 pm
Katy They say I mope too much but really I’m loudly dancing. I eat paper. It’s good for my bones. I play the piano pedal. I dance, I am never quiet, I mean silent. Some day I’ll love Frank O’Hara. I think I’ll be alone for a little while. Frank O’Hara from The Collected Poems […]
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November 16, 2022 – 5:40 pm
from Reasons for Staying The October leaves coming down, as if called. Morning fog through the wildrye beyond the train tracks. A cigarette. A good sweater. On the sagging porch. While the family sleeps. That I woke at all & the hawk up there thought nothing of its wings. That I snuck onto the page while the guards were […]
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November 2, 2022 – 9:43 pm
#807 the snow fell light white flakes melting on contact fading away like old stories after dawn the country twang of heartache and loss white noise background as I listened to your heartbeat echoing my own my hand in yours we swayed back and forth under street light moonlight memories I need a woman like […]
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November 2, 2022 – 9:41 pm
My Wild Body happiness of the world came to me again. My body effervesces, I think with my body which effervesces. -Anna Swir, trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan At 15, all the happiness of the world was a horse and my best jeans, halter in hand and boots with a one inch heel, every […]
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October 31, 2022 – 9:07 pm
POSTSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 14th, 2022 The day you are cremated, a girl modelling a black hoodie like the one I’ve chosen for you to wear, lights up my Facebook page: I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. I hear you laugh at the irony as they fire up the […]
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