From The Archives of Ministry of Spiritual Ascendance, Folio 1027-3F, December 12, 2024, a poem from Impossible Books (the Carleton Installment) by Stephen Brockwell Heathrow, 6 a.m., poem in Good People by Gwendolyn Guth Their readings launching these above/ground chapbooks tonight at the Carleton Tavern.
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new issue of 17 seconds
The second issue of 17 seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics is up and out. This issue contains: Joe in the Balkans: an interview with Joe Blades – by Tatjana Bijelic Conversations with John Newlove – by Carla Comellini Horologic – a poem by Kathleen Fraser surveillance of LECTURE: excerpt from a work-in-progress – […]
Comments versus Conversation, Written vs. Spoken
“Poets often write prose simply for the love of writing”, says Robert Peake when talking about the prose versus poetry versus other communication in writing things, such as blogs and letters: a letter from John Keats would contain, according to Motion, “freely associating inquiry and incomparable verve and dash–a headlong charge in which jokes, anecdotes, […]
On the Next Stage…
the re-lit short list (including Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip, (Coach House), The Others Raisd in Me, Gregory Betts (Pedlar) and Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, Stuart Ross (Freehand).) an excerpt from Metonymies: Poems by Objects Owned by Illustrious People, a new chapbook from Stephen Brockwell for the reading this Friday (Sept 3) with Gwen […]
On Style/Voice
Brooke Shaden, photographer on a post, Are you in Style? it is easy for artists to believe that they have a style when in fact they are simply producing the same photos over and over again. I see it happen, I’m sure you do too, where someone receives praise for a certain type of photo […]