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blogs & angela rawlings The last thing I've been interested in as anyone working a blog (or any other public forum, including Open L...

Purdyesque, or dear Al "I am no man because this is not a country" — Alfred Wellington Purdy "The real show of power is rest...

Ongoing notes: early May, 2006 Did you know that the Carleton League of Supervillains stuff that ___ ________ did back in 1996 is all still ...

lives of the saints […] saintliness is an eruption of the absolute into ordinary history […] ― Anne Carson, Decreation This line struck me i...

peanut butter & jellyfish (for diana hartog That's why I thought, music . Sharps and flats on paper, but in the air, floating, what ...

festival notes, day last ( or, so begins the long festival hangover ) A fantastic end to another spectacular festival ; I wish I had the en...

Elizabeth Bachinsky's Home of Sudden Service Another young Canadian poet with a second collection is Vancouver resident Elizabeth Bachin...

festival notes, day five ( or, night of a million billion ninjas ) I hosted the second poetry cabaret last night at the ottawa international...

hotel thursday (breakdown) (from "sequence") I was straining to enlarge a compromise when the context vanished. — Lisa Robertson, ...

festival notes, day three ( or, eighty-eight lines on fourty-four authors ) Madeline Thien , from her reading last night of a fraction of he...

Descant #132: The World of Barbara Gowdy It's always interesting to see an issue dedicated to the work of a particular writer, whether ...

festival notes, day one ( or, what happens at festival stays at the festival ) Pretty much everyone should know by now that yesterday was th...

a. rawlings' Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists In her first trade poetry collection, Wide Slumber for Lepidopter ists (Toronto ON: Coach ...