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April 09, 2019Read an Excerpt from the Late Joe Rosenblatt's Final Collection, Bite Me!
Joe Rosenblatt's final book, Bite Me! Musing on Monsters and Mayhem (Porcupine's Quill), published shortly before he passed away in March 2019, is a delight of Rosenblatt's fantastical imagination. Born ...
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January 14, 2022Why 2022 Is a Year of Remembering
In the last week of December 2021, I tried to remember what I had done during the year. I couldn’t remember. I had life-changing experiences – started a PhD, completed my first term successfully, ...
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November 30, 2022
Location, Location, Location
I’m writing to you from the plane to London. I’m headed to my favourite city for ten days, following by a few days in Edinburgh visiting friends. Interspersed are trains to Cardiff and Cambridge.It’s ...
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March 17, 2023Procrastination Station
It’s just shy of midnight and I’m sitting here, writing this, thinking about how I should have started it sooner. But if I had started it sooner, would it have been finished before now?If this question ...
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March 31, 2017
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Being a Writer #12: Jonathan Garfinkel
In 2012 I went to Banff for a self-directed residency in hopes I'd finally finish a significant re-draft of The Best Kind of People. I spent every day by myself in my room, taking breaks to walk in the ...
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March 16, 2018
An Interview with Justin Million, host/star of KEYBOARDS!
For the last few years, Peterborough poet Justin Million has been hosting (starring in? living? breathing?) a weird interpretation of the poetry reading called KEYBOARDS! As with any reading, poems are ...
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August 25, 2016When I Read a Really Amazing Poem It Feels like It's Working Some Sort of Magic on Me, an Interview with Cassidy Mcfadzean
Hacker Packer, the debut collection from Cassidy McFadzean, is a wild destination wedding between the colloquial and the archaic. So much is happening at this party, one is tempted to slow down, even ...
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January 02, 2020The Lucky Seven Interview: Robert Reid Talks Fly-Fishing and Connecting to Nature
For human beings, forging a real connection with nature can be essential to our understanding of not only ourselves, but our place within the planet on which we live. Spending time in the quiet isolation ...
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March 21, 2019Writer at Work: A Book Is A Community
Yesterday, my first book of poems, Port of Being, was shortlisted for the 2019 BC and Yukon Book Prizes (BCBP), for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. I expected to feel happy but I feel disbelief. The ...
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December 07, 2015At the Desk: Samuel Andreyev
Samuel Andreyev is the author of the poetry collection The Relativistic Empire (BookThug). His other artistic background, as an acclaimed composer and musician, is on display in his second collection, ...
