Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. Author’s statement My approach to poetry is based on randomness, memory, and emotion. In my case, these things operate and move like a chain. Until recently, I believed I needed to…

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT To do housework is to shake a broom in the face of Death. …

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT Everything means something, but it doesn’t mean the something needs forcing. TWO POEMS The bed book The bed book, the mice on shelves diving into the faculty. Women sit and women…

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT These poems, I think, highlight a kind of unreality — the ways and places in which the world warps even as it remains real. This is what I try to…

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT I’m writing to find my people, I guess. To paraphrase Midnight Sun Magazine: writing against capitalism, towards beauty, against empire, towards pleasure, against oppression — those are among my basic…

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. STATEMENT Since 2020, I have been working towards a full-length hybrid manuscript of poetry and some prose. These two poems are from this work-in-progress. …

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. Artist Statement This poem is excerpted from a book-length manuscript entitled Intimət, which investigates the tension between poetry as an expressive art form and the ever-evolving crises for truth, surveillance, and…

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month. AUTHOR STATEMENT Poetry: utterly unreachable and always there for the taking — eerie-close. It smashes and pieces back together the technology of language. When it reaches a fever pitch, I begin…

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…