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Six Questions interview #221 : Charlene Elsby
Charlene Elsby is a philosophy doctor whose books include The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty, Violent Faculties, and The Organization is Here to Support You. Her essays and interviews have appeared in Bustle...
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Dawn Macdonald on Amanda Earl's Kiki, N.W. Lea's Understander, Monty Reid's...
In case you hadn't caught, Whitehorse poet Dawn Macdonald started a substack recently [catch her own 2024 debut here, if you haven't already], and has been reviewing up a storm, offering her thoughts...
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National Poetry Month : Jaclyn Desforges,
LETTER HOME FROM A NOWHERE MOONMother, your work is not importantMother, your planet’s aura is orange and getting orange-er Have you even looked at an orangutan lately? Nobody is dying everything is...
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National Poetry Month : Tolu Oloruntoba,
Precariat If you eatof this tree, you’ll findthat you didn’t want whatyou wanted, only a trunkfor a berth in a lake;you’ll findthat I, for instance, wake dailyto find myselfbuilding careers,knowing...
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National Poetry Month : Michael Boughn,
Eleusis “I have seen Kore.” —Herakles Gathering through time’s tenuous tissue sets off down the Sacred Way in swirl of dust from all the feet...
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National Poetry Month : Lana Crossman,
Photophobia Change isn’t always blossoms, a jubilant ripening, sun-warmed seedlings. Sometimes change happens in the shadows. It’s the bat saving itself in a state of torpor, the bear’s cells...
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National Poetry Month : Salem Paige,
poet as a software engineer I made God in my processorsaw his face in my graphics card he fried my CPU, left mymotherboard without a mother so I dance in ritual aroundmy burning console, let theflame...
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Six Questions interview #222 : Jen Jakob
Jen Jakob (she/they), also published under the name j. alden, is a poet and editor based in Ottawa, Ontario. She has recently completed her Master of Arts degree at Queen’s University and holds an...
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National Poetry Month : Jack Saebyok Jung,
Last CountryOfficers in your country are feared, my friendstates in his statement about the powerof states, dropped during our conversationabout the impossibility of my having patriotismbecause I have...
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National Poetry Month : Julie Paul,
Lacrimal Report, 2025 Lodged in my chestlike a paid-for Mirage Bar,my tears won’t leave the machine They grow wings, legs, antennaebut do not fly off – a hatchof sand flies trapped in a box They...
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National Poetry Month : Scott Inniss,
Drum Circularity Foundationalism claims for its rhythma priori while lovers pulse their story. Crucial the volleys of mensuraltruth or encounter. So long of tooth, considered dead shots, spare...
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National Poetry Month : Karla Kelsey,
Furrow Relax your mouth, your cheeks, your forehead, your eyes. Après the silk bag, après the cremation chamber, après the hummingbird flung into the sliding glass window and the singed edge...
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National Poetry Month : Carlos A. Pittella,
Carlos A. Pittella [photo credit: Steph Leite] is haunted by borders & bureaucracies but tries to haunt them back through poetry, most recently published in the chapbook footnotes after Lorca...
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National Poetry Month : Edward Smallfield,
I want a porous field the postcard against the lampa child’s pagestained witha child’s fielda red horsea drowned fenceporouslight soakednothing writtengrafismes verds Edward Smallfield is the...
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National Poetry Month: Em Dial,
Side Effects Summer of Sumatriptanautoinjectors plungedinto my thigh as I crumpledin relief off the long sideof my bed. Summer aftercollege’s years of timingpills against liquor. Summerof drought...
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Six Questions interview #223 : Dagne Forrest
Dagne Forrest is a Canadian poet. In 2021 she was included in Canada’s Poem in Your Pocket campaign. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a range of journals including Rogue Agent, Tar River...
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National Poetry Month : Courtney Bates-Hardy,
Breath of Life For every hug I could not ask for from my mother, my lover embraces me over and over, moored in dreams, she reaches for me and holds me like the sea, the dark...
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National Poetry Month : D.S. Stymeist,
Early Spring, Sooke Spend the day on the dock,watching locals pullup their crab traps,admiring as they measureeach one, throw backthe small ones. I thinkabout having a crab boilfor my guests,...
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National Poetry Month : Michael Turner,
From That Feeling When (a cine-poem for three voices) What’s open before me is said with my eyes as text.A text has described itself.I see things because they are there.You see what you were put here...
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National Poetry Month : Jamie Kitts,
these controversial peaches wear white to my weddingthere is more white on the tableclothsthe socks and dress shirts and pearlsthan any dress i could dragdirty across the groundi am not so...
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National Poetry Month : Kevin Stebner,
Sigil for Digital Protection 3Sigil for Digital Protection 8Sigil for Digital Protection 11 Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician. He produces visual art using old videogame gear, and...
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National Poetry Month : Gloria Frym,
Pathetic Fallacy Songbirds sing not because they’re happy only to advertise. Keats wasn’t envious of the nightingale’s song just...
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National Poetry Month : Leesa Dean,
Leesa Deanis the author of two books (Waiting for the Cyclone, The Filling Station) and two chapbooks (The Desert of Itabira, Apogee/Perigee). Her third book, Interstitial, will be published by...
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National Poetry Month : Jason Heroux,
A Page from Novica Tadic’s Notebook Turn around, and ask: why doesn’t the sawdust believe in the saw? Night chases day. Fruit follows seed. Let the thread worship its needle. Let the tap water be...
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National Poetry Month : Tom Jenks,
wordThe old road curves through the forest and towards the mountain, past the cave where the magicians live. You’ll know it by the glittering boulders and the playing cards lodged in certain trees....
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