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HTMLGiant is set to close on October 24! Sometimes you just gotta call it a day? Co-founder Gene Morgan writes: Blake Butler and I started this place because we wanted a...

Bud Osborn was a poet and a social justice activist in Vancouver until his death earlier this year. At Jacket 2, Mercedes Eng considers the ways in which Vancouver's conflicts...

Last month Martín Espada received the Busboys and Poets Award, given in recognition of a poet's achievements and as a way to pay tribute to Langston Hughes (who worked as...

Is there life after MFA? Gina Myers thinks so! The well-versed author of A Model Year and Hold It Down (2009 & 2013, Coconut Books) holds it down at MFA...

At Jacket 2, Mary Hickman takes on the politics and poetics of defacing and also, perhaps, "refacing" books with works by Jen Bervin and Mary Ruefle as two examples. At the...

To accompany the publication of their second issue, Canadian small poetry magazine Touch the Donkey has posted a straightforward, substantive interview with Cathy Wagner, who has a poem in the...

Three cheers, Victoria! From our friends at Hyphen Magazine: For poet Victoria Chang, writing is risk-taking. "To be a creative person, you have to take risks all the time," she says...

We're into this "What I'm Reading Now" feature at Drunken Boat, which today brings us recommended current-poetry reads from poet Matthew Klane, who co-runs (with Adam Golaski) Flim Forum Press...

I am going to be devoting my blog posts this month to a central idea: bodies whose sensory capacities have been compromised, and how literatures can engage, represent, or transform...

Not easily dismissed: a rigorous review of Trisha Low's The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions 2014) by Karissa LaRoque at GUTS, "an open-access, peer-reviewed Canadian feminist magazine." Purge, LaRoque notes, "is...