‘sharp sniffs of snow in complex air’: Karen Garthe’s 12 or 20 December 21, 2012: Karen Garthe, author most recently of The Banjo Clock, answered Rob McLennan's 12 or 20 questions over at his blog. Here's a few of them. Make the jump for the rest: 4 - Where does a poem usually begin for you? Are you an author of short pieces that end up combining into a larger project, or are you working on a "book" from the very [...] by Harriet Staff

rob mclennan Gets Poetic on Twitter August 22, 2012: For a handful of modern poets, Twitter's 140 character maximum doesn't seem like a limit, but rather a form of boundless possibility. Poet rob mclennan recently posted a humorous little essay on Twitter to his blog, including a stream of tweets inspired by the Daily Show. For example: 17 perfect clones of Winston Churchill exist, but chose [...] by Harriet Staff

Spring Issue of Open Letter Inspired by KSW and Includes Work by Jeff Derksen, Sean Bonney, Jeff Hilson, Amy De’Ath, Holly Pester, Vanessa Place, more March 28, 2012: Rob McLennan has written a great review of the new issue of Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. I’m fascinated by much of this issue for the way that it forces me to consider writing differently, yet again, from all the structures I might have previously known. It reads as such a simple thing, but a constant [...] by Harriet Staff