seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics #11

the eleventh issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics is now online!

Eleventh Issue: Winter 2014/15

Cameron Anstee - Living now In Ottawa: Williams Hawkins at the Margins / Michelle Detorie - The River / Claire Molek - The Valley / Sean Moreland - Cont(r)act: an interview with Mark Goldstein / Chus Pato - In Conversation with Elvira Riveiro (translated from the Galician by Erín Moure) / Andy Weaver - ssalGlass

seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics comes out as the natural extension of the eight issues of Poetics.ca edited by rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell. Highlighting the diversity of voice, style, practice and politic, seventeen seconds continues the resolve to provide a forum for dialogue on contemporary poetics, with a focus on Canadian writing. Over the past two decades, the amount of critical writing published in print literary journals on Canadian poetry, specifically, seems to have decreased dramatically, but slowly returned through a number of online journals. seventeen seconds simply wishes to help strengthen the dialogue and the ongoing conversation about writing through publishing new writing, and conversation about new writing. Check out all eleven issues! All previous issues remain on the site.

rob mclennan: editor

roland prevost: founding managing editor

mdesnoyers : design & (re)compiler

the fourth issue of 17 seconds, ( : a journal of poetry and poetics ) is now online:

Fourth Issue: Winter 2012

Gary Barwin - PLETE PLETE ME: A FEW THOGHT ON THUGHTS
Camille Martin - from "Blueshift Road"
Marcus McCann - No Permission: Why Poets Don't (and Shouldn't) Ask Nice
(originally presented as part of the first annual VERSeFest)
Pattie McCarthy - from marybones
rob mclennan - Insect hopes: Jay MillAr's accumulations
Sean Moreland - "another brain:" An interview with Sandra Ridley
Monty Reid - Address to VERSeFest 1: How Come Inger Isn't Here?
(originally presented as part of the first annual VERSeFest)

http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/

seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics comes out as the natural extension of the eight issues of Poetics.ca edited by rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell. Highlighting the diversity of voice, style, practice and politic, seventeen seconds continues the resolve to provide a forum for dialogue on contemporary poetics, with a focus on Canadian writing. Over the past two decades, the amount of critical writing published in print literary journals on Canadian poetry, specifically, seems to have decreased dramatically, but slowly returned through a number of online journals. seventeen seconds simply wishes to help strengthen the dialogue and the ongoing conversation about writing through publishing new writing, and conversation about new writing. How else are we supposed to learn anything, unless we keep talking?

rob mclennan: editor

roland prevost: founding managing editor

mdesnoyers : design & (re)compiler

the third issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics is now online,

the third issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics
is now online at http://www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds/

the third issue includes:

Poets Against Authorship - by Gregory Betts

Sessions from the Dream House Aria - by Amanda Earl

A Second Time Around: a conversation between rob mclennan and Stephanie Bolster - by rob mclennan

An Inter(im) (re?)view With Pearl Pirie- by Sean Moreland

Massifs - by Judith Copithorne

Ancient Maps 5 - by Judith Copithorne

Fleur 14 - by Judith Copithorne

Feild 8 - by Judith Copithorne

Field 13 - by Judith Copithorne

Field 32 - by Judith Copithorne

Field 34 - by Judith Copithorne

An irresponsible act of imaginative license #1: kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s Rhapsodomancy - by Derek Beaulieu

An irresponsible act of imaginative license #2: Bob Cobbing’s GLOUP and WOUP - by Derek Beaulieu

An irresponsible act of imaginative license #3: Greg Curnoe’s Deeds/Abstracts - by Derek Beaulieu

seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics comes out as the natural extension of the eight issues of Poetics.ca [archived here] edited by rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell. Highlighting the diversity of voice, style, practice and politic, seventeen seconds continues the resolve to provide a forum for dialogue on contemporary poetics, with a focus on Canadian writing. Over the past two decades, the amount of critical writing published in print literary journals on Canadian poetry, specifically, seems to have decreased dramatically, but slowly returned through a number of online journals. seventeen seconds simply wishes to help strengthen the dialogue and the ongoing conversation about writing through publishing new writing, and conversation about new writing. How else are we supposed to learn anything, unless we keep talking?

Feedback and submission queries are most welcome.

rob mclennan, editor
Roland Prevost, managing editor

AngelHousePress' meta-ditch response anthology now on-line

AngelHousePress responses to poetry published on ditch: the poetry that matters, is now online,
lovingly edited + compiled by Amanda Earl

Márton Koppány on Marcia Arietta;
Jamie Bradley on Gary Barwin;
Caleb JW Brasset on Kane X. Faucher and Jamie Bradley;
John M. Bennett on Daniel f. Bradley;
Mary Kasimor on Nathalie Stephens;
Christine McNair on Amy Dennis;
Sheila E. Murphy on Camille Martin;
Sean Moreland on rob mclennan;
Lily Robert-Foley on Nathalie Stephens;
rob mclennan on Natalie Simpson;
Marilyn R. Rosenberg on Erin Moure;
Sandra Ridley on Christine McNair and Pearl Pirie;

http://www.ditchpoetry.com/anthology.htm

The Dusty Owl Reading Series: February 20 + March 6;

The Dusty Owl Reading Series, for the next couple of months, will be featuring special guest-hosts in place of Steve Zytveld, as we support his ongoing schooling at St. Paul's University. Learning is good! 

And note the temporary shift in venue from Swizzles on Queen Street to the upstairs of The Carleton Tavern in the Parkdale Market (watch for Dusty Owl’s anniversary party and new venue announcement coming up in May, alongside Dusty Owl’s fifteenth anniversary!);

The next two events at the Dusty Owl Reading Series are:

1) Sunday, February 20, 2011
20 February – Christian McPherson

Christian McPherson is the author of Six Ways to Sunday (shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards), "Poems that swim from my brain like rats leaving a sinking ship," and his new novel The Cube People.  His new collection of poems The Sun Has Forgotten Where I Live is being launched at Collected Works on April 16th, 2011.  He lives in Ottawa with his wife Marty and his two kids, Molly and Henry. 

As part of Steve Zytveld's spring term at school, this event will be lovingly guest-hosted by rob mclennan;

2) Sunday, March 6, 2011
Ottawa poet Sean Moreland with Call Me Katie

Sean Moreland's poetry and short fiction has appeared in venues including The Bywords Quarterly Journal and the Malahat Review, and online in The Puritan, Experiment-O, bywords.ca and ditch. He won the John Newlove award in 2007, and was named one of Ottawa's Hot Voices in 2009. He co-organizes the blUe m0nday reading series and sits on the editorial board for Arc Poetry Magazine. He earned his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Ottawa, where he currently teaches. His research interests include Gothic fiction, horror fiction and film, modern American fiction, and (post)modern poetics.

followed by a musical performance by fan-favourites, Call Me Katie!

As part of Steve Zytveld's spring term at school, this event will be lovingly guest-hosted by Pearl Pirie;

And watch for the triumphant return of "Dusty Owl" Steve Zytveld on May 8st! Upcoming readers include jwcurry (as part of a special VERSeFest event, March 13) Gabriella Goliger (April 3), David Groulx (April 17), Ronnie R. Brown (May 8), Michael Blouin (June 5), and the Ottawa Slam Team (September 18). Check website for updates!

The Dusty Owl Reading Series

5pm with featured performer(s) and open stage by 6;
Admission is free. Donations will be lovingly accepted.

For more information please contact: Steve Zytveld and/or Catherine MacDonald-Zytveld, Reading Series Coordinator + Media Coordinator
Tel: (613) 230-7710

E-mail: steve@dustyowl.com E-mail: media@dustyowl.com

the second issue of 17 seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics is finally online

the second issue of 17 seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics is finally online at www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds

rob mclennan, editor
Roland Prevost, managing editor

Conversations with John Newlove - by Carla Comellini 

Love, Anne Carson: a fictional essay in the wrong order - by rob mclennan

Joe in the Balkans: an interview with Joe Blades - by Tatjana Bijelic 

An Interview with Dennis Cooley - by Sean Moreland

'in the estuary' and 'funereal relief re-lives' - two poems by Pearl Pirie

Horologic - a poem by Kathleen Fraser 

surveillance of LECTURE: excerpt from a work-in-progress - by Kathleen Fraser

seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics comes out as the natural extension of the eight issues of Poetics.ca edited by rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell. Highlighting the diversity of voice, style, practice and politic, seventeen seconds continues the resolve to provide a forum for dialogue on contemporary poetics, with a focus on Canadian writing. Over the past two decades, the amount of critical writing published in print literary journals on Canadian poetry, specifically, seems to have decreased dramatically, but slowly returned through a numberof online journals. seventeen seconds simply wishes to help strengthen the dialogue and the ongoing conversation about writing through publishing new writing, and conversation about new writing. How else are we supposed to learn anything, unless we keep talking?  Feedback and submission queries are most welcome.

az421 (at) freenet (dot) carleton (dot) ca 

rob mclennan