Grandfather
Edward James Coles (1872-1951) His father died in 1884 in one of the family’s Somerset farmbuildings (a few years ago I was allowed into the main house for seven minutes …
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On Being Threatened Over Red Willow Park
Finalist for the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize St. Albert, Alberta The black patina of wood tar stinks and sticks to the soles of our shoes as Matthew and I follow …
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Experiment
If you can’t be conduit to the novel, then at least recycle experiments proven to please the judging panel’s inner child as it wanders, agog, the gallery of triptych bristol …
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Is Anne Carson the First Poet with More Fans than Readers?
Her abstruse, down-tuned music is the soundtrack to poetry’s institutionalized life in the twenty-first century
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After the Theatre
Details seem to leave me the moment I want to write them, your soft round cheek now on my shoulder. How the doctors cut you out of me as if …
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Trigger warning for a course in developmental psychology
Prediction is not only possible, it’s paramount. Milestones make us human. Upright, time-bound. Or is that poetry, or is that music. Or is that sports, or breweries. Or pharmaceuticals, or …
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Life Cycle of the Animal Called She
Wife Mother Mistress I made a line without continuation. My name in red Letters along the belly of this curve. How to cure him Of the colic, the bed wet, …
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Poetry Slam
Cowardly critics and bad art—a Canadian codependency
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A Poet Self-Destructs
The tormented life of my friend Murdoch Burnett
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