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Towards A Poetry Of <something> Tentative / Notes from a stalled art project, Grant Wilkins $6 ; TWO, Rose Maloukis $6 ; inventions, Robert van Vliet $6 ; AN ACCELERATION & A CALM / A SHEAF BY THE LATE P. M. SAMSON / COMMENTARY BY BARNARD SWALLOW, A SHEAF BY THE LATE P. M. SAMSON, COMMENTARY BY BARNARD SWALLOW, devised by Jon Cone and K.Lipschutz $6 ; Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], forty-eighth issue $8 : Words and Image / Entre mots et images, eds./dir. David O’Meara and/et Véronique Sylvain, translations by/traductions de Myriam Legault-Beauregard $10 ; EVAD, Glenn Bach $6 ; SPECTACLE/SPECTATOR, Noah Sparrow $6 ; Weeds of Canada, Dawn Macdonald $6 ; LONG SPEECH FROM MY FATHER AS MY FATHER AS WU TAO TZU ET AL, Jake Kennedy $6 ; 310 Consecutive Life Sentences, Ken Sparling $6 ; AN ACCURATE CIGARETTE: Poetry & Prompts, Sarah Burgoyne $6 ; The Unknotter, Christina Wells $6 ; Vast Spaces, John Levy $6 ; Now When, A Poem, Travis Sharp $6 ;

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January-March 2026
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