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November 25, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part V)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part V) Paloma left and Mat and I discuss how The Contemporary Poetry Group is a love action, and there's no better way to deal with evil than to make something ...
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November 24, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part IV)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part IV) Paloma asks me questions and I respond like a mid-September Virgo. Mat makes an observation which the entire conversation ribbons itself around. ...
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November 20, 2014With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part III)
With Evan Munday: The Great Unpacking (Part III)In the third and final installment of my conversation with Evan, we find out what the deal is with him wearing ties all the time, as well as discover how ...
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November 30, 2014With Jazmine V K Carr
Aisha Sasha John with Jazmine V K Carr on SoundCloudHere I connect with the force that is artist Jazmine V K Carr. Near the end we get sidelined by cigarettes, joined by Marvin and Fiona, two simultaneous ...
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September 20, 20172017 Weston Prize shortlist announced: 5 Books vie for $60,000
We are officially into the swing of literary prize season, with the Giller Prize longlist announced earlier this week, the Governor General's Literary Awards announcement around the corner (October 4), ...
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September 19, 2018Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction Releases Memoir-Rich Shortlist
This morning the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the five finalists for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the country's biggest and arguably most influential non-fiction ...
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November 22, 2014With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I)
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I) On Halloween afternoon 2014, Mat Laporte and Paloma came to my house, sat on my daybed, and we laughed so loud, fair listeners, that this podcast ...
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July 30, 2018
On Staying Hungry
One night after a reading years ago, before any of us had published a book, I and another writer I know gave a third writer friend a pretty hard time about not wanting to submit stories to magazines. ...
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October 19, 2014
On Writing, with Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John, our November 2014 writer-in-residence, has been called "a poet of centrifugal energy, of reverberant intimacy" (Michael Nardone).She's back this spring with her second book, the follow ...
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November 08, 2014A Terribly Inexpensive Friend
If you buy a second-hand book, it has a price and some degree of wear. This book was 48 cents.Many books, second-hand books, are crusty. That’s how come some people won’t buy them. People eat pizza ...
