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Mar 6

Spotlight series #83 : Jérôme Melançon

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT Perception is not limited to the senses, or to sense. Why then make it solely a matter of attention, of focus? Why limit myself to expression? Why stop at the…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #83 : Jérôme Melançon
Spotlight series #83 : Jérôme Melançon
Poetry

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Feb 6

Spotlight series #82 : Tom Prime

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT These poems are a mixture of quoted, satirized, and re-appropriated lines from a variety of early-modern English plays and poems, interwoven with voices, memories, and incidents from my own life…

Canadian Poetry

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Spotlight series #82 : Tom Prime
Spotlight series #82 : Tom Prime
Canadian Poetry

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Jan 2

Spotlight series #81 : Nathanael O’Reilly

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. ARTIST’S STATEMENT: I was born in Warrnambool, Australia, on Gunditjmara country, a descendant of convicts & immigrants from Ireland, England, Wales & Portugal. My ancestors farmed in the Western District of…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #81 : Nathanael O’Reilly
Spotlight series #81 : Nathanael O’Reilly
Poetry

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Dec 5, 2022

Spotlight series #80 : Nanci Lee

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT Poems are how I metabolize, calibrate, recalibrate. A way of climbing back into my body. Sitting with something that’s moved or puzzled me. Or playing with a different ending. It’s…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #80 : Nanci Lee
Spotlight series #80 : Nanci Lee
Poetry

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Nov 7, 2022

Spotlight series #79 : Victoria Mbabazi

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. ARTIST’S STATEMENT I am a writer who is concerned with how I am feeling. I use “I” a lot in my poems. I write because it is the only place where…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #79 : Victoria Mbabazi
Spotlight series #79 : Victoria Mbabazi
Poetry

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Oct 3, 2022

Spotlight series #78 : Jennifer Baker

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. ARTIST’S STATEMENT I might describe much of my poetry as confessional imagist lyric, most of the time, but I also have an interest in experimental poetic forms, like erasure poetry. I…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #78 : Jennifer Baker
Spotlight series #78 : Jennifer Baker
Poetry

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Sep 5, 2022

Spotlight series #77 : Simon Brown

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT Poetry is an attempt. An attempt on (my) life? This isn’t an original thought, but still. When I really think about it, it seems to me that each poem must…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #77 : Simon Brown
Spotlight series #77 : Simon Brown
Poetry

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Aug 1, 2022

Spotlight series #76 : Laura Kerr

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT These asemic digital poems are inspired by my garden and the patterns of light, shadow, and colour. I work collaboratively with my computer and input my photographs, drawings and text…

Asemic Writing

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Spotlight series #76 : Laura Kerr
Spotlight series #76 : Laura Kerr
Asemic Writing

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Jul 4, 2022

Spotlight series #75 : Jamie Sharpe

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT In the spring of 2020 Jamie Sharpe was in New Brunswick, purportedly studying the famed Magnetic Hill outside Moncton. …

Poetry

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Spotlight series #75 : Jamie Sharpe
Spotlight series #75 : Jamie Sharpe
Poetry

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Jun 6, 2022

Spotlight series #74 : nina jane drystek

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT : poetry is like swallowing the whole world and pulling it back out piece by piece. when i was a kid growing up in Ottawa my parents took me to…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #74 : nina jane drystek
Spotlight series #74 : nina jane drystek
Poetry

4 min read

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