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…

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…

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…

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…