Our fall issue 224 is making its way to your mailboxes!⁠ ⁠ Featuring Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction winner Eleanor Fuller, + new work by Joseph Kidney, Sadie McCarney, Kawai Shen, Odette Auger, Karine Hack, & more. Cover art by Cammie Staros. ⁠ malahatreview.ca/issues/224.html

For Poetry International Online (Poetry International) I reviewed Jesse Nathan's (Jesse Nathan) excellent debut EGGTOOTH. poetryinternationalonline.com/calling-home/

in the linguistics department

Wrote some paragraphs in Arc Poetry Magazine about Dominique Bernier-Cormier 's poetry book of last year Entre Rive and Shore. Read this but more importantly read THAT. arcpoetry.ca/editorials/ent…

Tonight's the night! The event is sold out, though keep an eye on the Eventbrite page in case a ticket becomes available. If you can't make it, you bring the party to you by listening to the latest episode of Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, featuring three of the poets! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/pag…

now THAT’s a linebreak

same product, open your eyes

this book is IT and AD is HIM

For Vancouver-area people, I’ll be reading poetry next Tuesday (April 16th) and leading a poetry writing workshop next Thursday (April 18th) at the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby. Come out!! All is free, everyone is welcome.

Tomorrow!

This is, more or less, verbatim from the end of the last volume of In Search of Lost Time

at the beach

closing night of Hamlet at SantaCruzShakespeare

Triplet of poems out in the new summer issue of Contemporary Verse 2 . About trash burning, about home decor, and about a wedding. Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue. My thanks to the editors!

Kieślowski Dekalog episode one

Canadian lit awards have had a... erm... rough year, revealing that their hearts weren't always in the right place. It feels like a good time to remember the wonderful DC Reid Poets' Grant. Smaller grants for those in need. No fanfare. Deadline Sept 9. writerstrust.com/programs/dc-re…