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Around 2001, I started riffing poems off a concept pilfered from George Bowering’s poetry collection, Curious (Coach House Press, 1973). In...

The other night I participated in Carleton University’s In/Words monthly open set reading , now held at the Legion on Kent Street , just s...

About 100 feet east of Sussex between Clarence and Murray in the Byward Market, the Tin House Court sits in one of a series of courtyards th...

Recently produced as a collaborative effort between The Capilano Review (as issue 3.7) and SFU Gallery ) is “ LESS IS MORE: The Poetics of ...

We can only seek a sentence by means of another sentence. — Pierre Alferi , “from To Seek a Sentence ,” trans. Anna Moschovakis, Verse , Vol...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading far more fiction than poetry, working through various ideas of prose as I put the finishing touch...

Litmags threatened by new funding guidelines February 20, 2009 6:34 PM By Stuart Woods The Harper Tories have promised to maintain existin...

My father liked a bad joke with a Japanese prisoner over a makeshift fire better than his own barrack. He never spoke of the celebrated Daib...

You might not know this, but the National Arts Centre - Centre national des Arts is built over the spot where the Russell Theatre opened on ...

In case you didn’t know, the Cold War was invented at 511 Somerset Street West, in the apartment building beside the beer store. Don’t belie...

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan as part of the Factory Reading Series at the Ottawa Art Gallery Thursday, March 26 Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue...

It might not look like it once did, due to the construction, but this building has been home to a whole range of great art over the years, o...

There is a story of the late poet John Newlove still living in Vernon, British Columbia with his wife Susan in 1986, and being told by his d...

How long is it since I’ve done one of these? Perhaps too long; part of it, is the fact that I’m just not getting anyone mailing me chapbook...

Edited and produced by rob mclennan in Edmonton, at the University of Alberta designed by mdesnoyers http://www.ottawater.com/albertaseries/...

I'm not entirely sure if the Grace Manor on Wellington Street West (just by Parkdale) is a senior's home or not, but it isn’t what i...

There were a number of places my mother's family lived when they arrived in Ottawa, after living in Kemptville and Brockville, that some...

What is it about this story of my great-grandparents that offers so much but gives so little? Why do I persist in this search, despite every...

Angela Szczepaniak, Eva Moran & Jason Camlot at the Factory Reading Series lovingly hosted by rob mclennan as part of the Factory Readin...

Where Alberta and her family lived, it was said, there was a language of lakes that no man ever used, but a language of spring runoff and mo...