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July 18, 2017Julia McCarthy on Duality, Elegy, and Overlap in Her Third Poetry Collection
Julia McCarthy's All the Names Between (Bricks Books) has been praised for its "incomparable eloquence" (Clarise Foster, editor of Contemporary Verse 2) and called "a book of meditations for even those ...
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March 14, 2016A Day in the Life
Rise, water and fruit, spend about twenty minutes adjusting my spiritual frequency to the world. Think about the day and what it will entail. Recalibrate against the chaos if I've had strange dreams. ...
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September 10, 2014On Silence
I grew up in a silent house, aside from the times when the silence was punctured with yelling. The crying was always quiet. The children did stay quiet—even when not crying—as best they could, to ...
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February 12, 2014
Writer's Block Does Not Exist (Part 3)
Step three: writing your draftsFirst draft (punctuation optional)."Have you ever rolled down your windows to smell the aroma of an organic orange plantation on a summer night? Dreaming the ecstasy of ...
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January 15, 2020Don't Adjust Your Antenna: nathan dueck Channels a Pop Culture Obsession Into Poetry in His New Collection
You certainly don't have to be a child of the 80s to appreciate poet nathan dueck's newest collection, A Very Special Episode (Wolsak & Wynn), but it doesn't hurt.Inspired by the Saturday morning ...
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November 29, 2014With Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part I)
with Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part I) I wish I remember if it were cold when Katrice Dustin, a writer, came to my house to talk about fashion. Oh wait--it was cold. Anyway, here we get warm discussing ...
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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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September 30, 2014Eppur Si Muove / And yet It Moves
Eppur si muove. And yet it moves. This is what Galileo supposedly said, speaking of the earth, upon being found guilty of heresy in 1633 for promoting the Copernican model of heliocentricity. In its move ...
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September 24, 2014Which ‘I’ This ‘I.
After my second book, Post-Apothecary, came out, I was given the chance to read at some of our writers’ festivals. One event in Ontario had three poets and a host who introduced us and facilitated the ...
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May 30, 2021
Poetry: A Healing Tool for Dark Days
I started this month with mental health for writers, and I want to end it with a more personal look at the same topic.One of the many reasons I’ve been grateful to Open Book for offering me this residency ...
