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Sep 4

Spotlight series #89 : Alice Burdick

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…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #89 : Alice Burdick
Spotlight series #89 : Alice Burdick
Poetry

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Aug 7

Spotlight series #88 : Dessa Bayrock

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…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #88 : Dessa Bayrock
Spotlight series #88 : Dessa Bayrock
Poetry

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Jul 3

Spotlight series #87 : Daniel Sarah Karasik

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…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #87 : Daniel Sarah Karasik
Spotlight series #87 : Daniel Sarah Karasik
Poetry

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Jun 5

Spotlight series #86 : Maw Shein Win

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. …

Poetry

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Spotlight series #86 : Maw Shein Win
Spotlight series #86 : Maw Shein Win
Poetry

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May 1

Spotlight series #85 : Eric Schmaltz

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…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #85 : Eric Schmaltz
Spotlight series #85 : Eric Schmaltz
Poetry

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Apr 3

Spotlight series #84 : Emmalea Russo

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…

Poetry

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Spotlight series #84 : Emmalea Russo
Spotlight series #84 : Emmalea Russo
Poetry

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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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