AMPA Award Finalists
The AMPA awards finalists have been announced. Congratulations to Tyler Hein for “Mouse Trap” (fiction), Dee Hobsbawn-Smith for “Departure” (poetry), and Bruce Hunter for “Dark Water” (poetry). We would also…
If You Lie Down in a Field, She Will Find You There
Michelle Hardy A Review of: If You Lie Down in a Field, She Will Find You There Colleen BrownRadiant Press, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-98927-494-1 110 pages $20.00 CAD Remembering an…
Review of Theresa Kishkan’s “Blue Portugal”
By Skylar Kay Blue Portugal by Theresa Kishkan University of Alberta Press (2022) Blue Portugal, Theresa Kishkan’s new collection of essays, presents life as mosaic. Kishkan stitches and mends together…
Volume 32 Number 2 Video Readings
Hear four contributors from Volume 32 Number 2 read their work. “Siddhartha at Paia” by Diana E. Hayes from Volume 32 Number 2 – YouTube Barbara Pelman reading her poem…
Blood Memory
by Dan Auger How often do I visit this place? The memories that drift in and out are not my own and they constantly drag me back to this town.…
Eddie Puskamoose Showers History at the Main Street
by D. A. Lockhart At its heart the Bear Clan protects us, Puskamoose declares. our peoples need aggression, that modern Canada makes us smile at being inappropriate. Drops deck screws,…
Frogs Fell from the Sky: Fiction in Poetry
by Mary Ann Moore A friend of mine was editing a magazine devoted to fiction which led me to change things so that, for instance, a dog’s breed becomes Chihuahua…
2020/2021 Annual Prose and Poetry Short List
Prose Aren’t they too Old? Blood Memory How to Eviscerate a Turkey Pas de Deux Pie Jesu Please take her Violets Room for Rent Saint Water Sasha Lived on a…
Review of Lauren Carter’s “This Has Nothing To Do With You”
by Skylar Kay This Has Nothing To Do With Youby Lauren CarterFreehand Books (2019)ISBN: 9781988298542 “We were a family that kept secrets.” This quote, which opens a section late in the…
Review of “I Will Be Corrupted” by Joseph A. Dandurand
by Al Rempel I Will Be Corruptedby Joseph A. DandurandGuernica Editions (2020)ISBN: 9781771835060 Joseph A Dandurand’s thirteenth book of poetry, I Will Be Corrupted, is a powerful work in its…