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February 08, 2017A few minutes with ... Michael Fraser
Throughout the month I'll be interviewing various authors. Today I share my conversation with Michael Fraser. Michael has been published in numerous national and international anthologies and journals. ...
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February 15, 2017
Publishing vs Self-publishing
In many ways the current publishing structure for literature is obsolete. If you have a fan base of over 100 people willing to purchase your work, and if you can negotiate with graphic designers and editors, ...
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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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November 30, 2014
With Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part III)
AI_SHA – with Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part III) Can you participate in fashion if you don't have money? Katrice answers. And later I wile out talking about the transformative power of clothes. Some ...
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November 29, 2014With Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part II)
with Katrice Dustin: a P. for F. (Part II)Do fashion writers have to be, um, fashionable? Katrice and I take up that question here. We also discuss the implications of the good outfit, smarts and wit ...
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November 30, 2014
A tiny closing present
My movement teacher told us a story at the end of class yesterday. He walked into a cafe, and was assaulted by the power of a painting. It was glorious, incredible, alive. An article hung beneath the ...
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May 04, 2015
Confessions of a TV Addict
I'll just say/ I started watching Frazier/ I'll just say/ Every single episode -David McGimpsey, Asbestos HeightsIt started in grad school. I had moved from Brooklyn to sleepy, manicured London, Ontario ...
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May 01, 2015
Television as the New Novel
One late afternoon many summers ago, I found myself on a sunny balcony with a bunch of writers. Naturally we were talking about television. When one of us admitted she hadn't seen The Wire, I jumped in ...
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April 14, 2022Research (creation) in Writing
In my first post I mentioned my first chapbook of treaty poetry, and how it came about as part of a research-creation project during an undergraduate English course. A lot of writers might be currently ...
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April 18, 2022Treaty Parchments, and what I'm looking for when I look in the archive
In the summer of 2019, I was searching through library collections globally to track down copies of parchments of the Numbered Treaties. These copies were produced sometime between the mid 1870s and the ...