The eighty-third in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a
different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now
online, featuring Regina poet, critic and translator Jérôme Melançon.
The
first eleven in the series were attached to the Drunken Boat blog, and
the series has so far featured poets including Seattle, Washington poet
Sarah Mangold, Colborne, Ontario poet Gil McElroy, Vancouver poet Renée
Sarojini Saklikar, Ottawa poet Jason Christie, Montreal poet and
performer Kaie Kellough, Ottawa poet Amanda Earl, American poet
Elizabeth Robinson, American poet Jennifer Kronovet, Ottawa poet Michael
Dennis, Vancouver poet Sonnet L’Abbé, Montreal writer Sarah Burgoyne,
Fredericton poet Joe Blades, American poet Genève Chao, Northampton MA
poet Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer from
Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1 territory) poet, critic and editor Joshua
Whitehead, American expat/Barcelona poet, editor and publisher Edward
Smallfield, Kentucky poet Amelia Martens, Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie,
Burlington, Ontario poet Sacha Archer, Washington DC poet Buck Downs,
Toronto poet Shannon Bramer, Vancouver poet and editor Shazia Hafiz
Ramji, Vancouver poet Geoffrey Nilson, Oakland, California poets and
editors Rusty Morrison and Jamie Townsend, Ottawa poet and editor Manahil Bandukwala,
Toronto
poet and editor Dani Spinosa, Kingston writer and editor Trish
Salah, Calgary poet, editor and publisher Kyle Flemmer, Vancouver poet
Adrienne Gruber, California poet and editor Susanne Dyckman, Brooklyn
poet-filmmaker Stephanie Gray, Vernon, BC poet Kerry Gilbert, South
Carolina poet and translator Lindsay Turner, Vancouver poet and
editor Adèle Barclay, Thorold, Ontario poet Franco Cortese, Ottawa poet
Conyer Clayton, Lawrence, Kansas poet Megan Kaminski, Ottawa poet and
fiction writer Frances Boyle, Ithica, NY poet, editor and publisher
Marty Cain, New York City poet Amanda Deutch, Iranian-born and
Toronto-based writer/translator Khashayar Mohammadi, Mendocino County
writer, librarian, and a visual artist Melissa Eleftherion, Ottawa poet
and editor Sarah MacDonell, Montreal poet Simina Banu, Canadian-born
UK-based artist, writer, and practice-led researcher J. R. Carpenter,
Toronto poet MLA Chernoff, Boise, Idaho poet and critic Martin
Corless-Smith, Canadian poet and fiction writer Erin Emily Ann Vance,
Toronto poet, editor and publisher Kate Siklosi, Fredericton poet
Matthew Gwathmey, Canadian poet Peter Jaeger, Birmingham, Alabama poet
and editor Alina Stefanescu, Waterloo, Ontario poet Chris Banks, Chicago
poet and editor Carrie Olivia Adams, Vancouver poet and editor
Danielle Lafrance, Toronto-based poet and literary critic Dale Martin
Smith, American poet, scholar and book-maker Genevieve Kaplan,
Toronto-based poet, editor and critic ryan fitzpatrick, American poet
and editor Carleen Tibbetts, British Columbia poet nathan dueck,
Tiohtiá:ke-based sick slick, poet/critic em/ilie kneifel, writer,
translator and lecturer Mark Tardi, New Mexico poet Kōan Anne Brink,
Winnipeg poet, editor and critic Melanie Dennis Unrau, Vancouver
poet, editor and critic Stephen Collis, poet and social justice coach
Aja Couchois Duncan, Colorado poet Sara Renee Marshall, Toronto
writer Bahar Orang, Ottawa writer Matthew Firth, Victoria poet Saba
Pakdel, Winnipeg poet Julian Day, Ottawa poet, writer and performer
nina jane drystek, Comox BC poet Jamie Sharpe, Canadian visual artist
and poet Laura Kerr, Quebec City-area poet and translator Simon
Brown, Ottawa poet Jennifer Baker, Rwandese Canadian Brooklyn-based
writer Victoria Mbabazi, Nova Scotia-based poet and facilitator Nanci
Lee, Irish-American poet Nathanael O'Reilly and Canadian poet Tom Prime.
The whole series can be found online here.
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