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June 2015 / Poetry

Schoolhouse Lilies

May 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by David McGimpsey

Except when he was watching baseball, it seemed my father was always outdoors, tipping his hat to locals, watering the flowers that focused his retirement. A Yankees fan for more …

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July/August 2012 / Poetry

Aw ya, cabelleros y caballeras, rancheros y rancheras, it’s time for a little polling data about everybody’s favourite subject: Canadian literature!

July 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David McGimpsey

The luckiest character in CanLit has to be David from Earle Birney’s “David,” because David would be safely dead before having to read Earle Birney’s “David.” The most beloved character …

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July/August 2012 / Poetry

A la mémoire de moi-meme et M. De Fenouillet et la burger «W» chez Wendy’s

July 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David McGimpsey

Far from the Fina gas station of your youth, not teaching in that New England College dreamt of in grad school, walking Jean Talon, looking for a reasonable soup, you’re …

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July/August 2012 / Poetry

Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est 100$ pour voir Bon Iver

July 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David McGimpsey

Oddsmakers ask, what will happen sooner: will a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup, or will Canadians develop a new interest in the novels of Robertson Davies? The unmalled parts …

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July/August 2012 / Poetry

As vast as the vastlands of this vast land, poet, are you to yonder skies,breads, and local cheeses

July 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David McGimpsey

I am grateful for libraries (iPad) and poetry (iPad). Lorca’s line “La Clooney del bello Jorge sigue…” is where George Clooney got his stage name. Many tried to be the …

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July/August 2012 / Poetry

Topped by a half-pound of maple bacon personally cured by all the members of Nickelback

July 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David McGimpsey

The first great Canadian burger was made by Alberta poet Krane MacPherson, who always claimed his secret ingredient was the salty winter tears of a teacher. MacPherson died in a …

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What Was That Poem?

January 11, 2012March 8, 2019 - by David McGimpsey
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November 2011 / Poetry

What Was That Poem?

November 12, 2011June 15, 2020 - by David McGimpsey

My mother asked me, What was that poem? It was Longfellow’s “My Lost Youth,” I think. The answer was Longfellow, often enough, even though she never liked Evangeline. I talked …

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July/August 2010 / Poetry

My Second, Less Popular, and Even Less Critically Successful Canadian Novel

July 12, 2010January 27, 2022 - by David McGimpsey

The description / of exquisite unsaids. The turn will not / take place in an Applebee’s parking lot

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July/August 2010 / Poetry

My Life as a Canadian Writer

July 12, 2010January 27, 2022 - by David McGimpsey

If you heard that segment of Canada Reads / where a guy recommends the novel version / of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun, that was me

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