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I’m fascinated by this collection of new poems by American poet Maxine Chernoff , The Turning ( Berkeley CA: Apogee Press, 2008 ). Built ve...

Sleeping with the River All that winter as the rains arrived, sometimes as nobody’s footsteps, sometimes as ack-ack, sometimes hard bits of ...

Last night the opening of a new show of paintings and sculpture ("beer fish," she called a number of them) by Diane Woodward at Th...

Anyone who knows Fredericton, New Brunswick writer, editor, visual poet, artist, radio host and publisher Joe Blades knows he’s been filling...

[unidentified exhibitor at Expozine; I made a point of not asking questions] Over the past few weeks, I’ve been at two different book fairs...

The Tallgrass Prairie False Aster, Arrowhead Rattlebox, Oldfield Balsam, Missouri Ironweed, Swampwood Betony, Sagamon Clef Phlox, Savanna Bl...

I’m uncomfortable with the word “artist”; too often I’ve heard it said with a sneer. I’m a painter . That word says what I do ; it doesn’t ...

AngelHousePress is pleased to announce the launch of experiment-o , an annual online pdf magazine that celebrates the art of risk. ...

What is it about the late Canadian artist Tom Thomson that keeps Canadian expatriate writer Troy Jollimore writing about him? Not to mention...

FORWARD: On Saturday, December 13, at 7:30 PM Shane Rhodes and Michael McCulloch will be performing an evening of music and poetry to raise...

The closest equivalent I can think to Toronto poet Kyle Buckley’s first poetry collection, The Laundromat Essay (Toronto ON: Coach House Bo...

In the first novel by Vancouver writer and editor Aaron Peck , The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis (Toronto ON: Pedlar Press , 2008), we se...

Man In The Dark (New York NY: Henry Holt, 2008), the newest novel by New York City novelist Paul Auster , is a devastating and brilliant n...

re: projected Ottawa arts funding cuts (again) I am disturbed by what is currently happening with the lack of vision and poor decision makin...

Do You Fall in Love at the Drop of Happy Do you fall in love at the drop of happy Are you brink Did you clean Do you miss yourself or are yo...

Wednesday, November 19th 7:00 pm, Club SAW (67 Nicholas Street) On November 4th, the City announced its proposed budget for 2009. A number ...

I slept beside a grizzly, each of us unaware of the other, and when I awakenened, heard his breath next to mine. Time began for me in that i...

Always according to the pseudo-Herodotus, it was the poet's blindness that gave him the name why which we know him today. As a child, th...

And so I say to poetry: I’m sorry I sometimes get angry with you, or impatient, or that I drop off the radar for five years at a time. I rea...