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In an essay in the thirtieth anniversary issue of Arc Poetry Magazine (summer 2008), Toronto poet Adam Sol writes about thirty of his essen...

(after Nina Berkhout if you saw where I was now, dissolved I am conscious of every theory of birds & tv, alien craft throughout manitoba...

I've recently been going through the poetry anthology A Sing Economy (Slingerlands NY: flim forum press , 2008), edited by Matthew Klan...

One of the better-kept secrets the past few months has been the " Sharon Thesen " [ see my 12 or 20 questions with her here ] issu...

Getting sick was a process just as getting well was a process. The most important things must happen slowly, incrementally. In 1995, just as...

For some time, former east coast (now living in Vancouver) poet Zachariah Wells has been one of the champions of this "new formalism...

I'm at the beginnings of Diane Schoemperlen's novel Our Lady of the Lost and Found (which, according to her facebook status recentl...

Anniversaries always exist as two-fold, in looking back as well as looking ahead, and the thirtieth anniversary of Ottawa's only poetry-...

Joan MacLeod’s plays include ‘Jewel’, ‘ Toronto, Mississippi’ , ‘ Amigo’s Blue Guitar’ , ‘ The Hope Slide’ , ‘Little Sister’ , ‘2000’, ‘ Th...

The snow we would trudge from the truck or the tractor to back of the two hundred acres, over creek into brush for the sake of a Christmas ...

published by above/ground press new fiction by : Amanda Earl Emily Falvey Spencer Gordon Kate Heartfield rob mclennan Wes Smiderle + Steve Z...

But that's what exile does. It gives you your home. — Ali Smith , Brick #81, summer 2008 There is something about recollection that ma...

Don’t forget how easy it is to burst a balloon. Don’t forget that a person who is full of hot air is not someone you should trust your life ...

AFTER THE FLOOD ALL THE CONDOMS FALL OFF Anybody can be Noah. Nobody can be his wife. Send out the maven, not The dove. Jump ship and accept...

THROWDOWN IN O-TOWN To the Respected Community, This is our final message regarding Friday's Main Event. Never before have you seen two ...

Sure is strange to be home. If you want, check out this podcast of the reading I did recently at the Dusty Owl Reading Series , or these fea...

new poetry workshops at Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa If anyone is interested, I've just booked a series of dates for my new seasona...

12 or 20 questions: rob mclennan answers his own [ photo by Lainna ] rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, even th...