Category: News
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Poetry Is Dead Queer issue – first submission!
Recently, I posted about the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead, which I’m guest editing. Exciting news! We have received our first poetry submission, which you can read below. Our thanks to our first contributor. Deadline for submissions is June 1st; you can read the guidelines here. Sorry I can’t help you on this one.…
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Companion Animal: Part 1
Still at the beginning of this winter endgame illness. The body is a pump, mouth vent bellows. Drains into one place, paws steady on your chest. Face in your mouth, chessgame of nodes. Logic is a cancer, relies only on itself. The first dog will drag you into the open, garden exile. She will rescue…
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Poetry Is Dead Queer issue: call for submissions
The Vancouver-based Poetry Is Dead magazine is now accepting submissions for their upcoming Queer issue, which I’m guest editing. We’re looking for submissions of poetry and experimental prose. I’d like to open up a space in this issue for language-focused prose, microfiction and other hybrids. Visual/text hybrid work is also welcome. All forms of poetry…
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Inter/re view
Vancouver poet Nikki Reimer interviewed me for the group blog Vancouver Is Awesome — you can read the interview here. My review of Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (ed. Zena Sharman, Ivan E. Coyote) is in the current issue of subTERRAIN magazine. My review of Suzette Mayr’s Monoceros will be in the next issue.
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Play Chthonics reading with bill bissett
On Wednesday January 18th I’ll be reading with bill bissett at UBC’s Play Chthonics series. Play Chthonics focuses on new Canadian writing and experimental or cross-genre writing. The reading is from 5-6:30, is free, and all are welcome. Details are on the Talonbooks website here. From the Talonbooks site: bill bissett is an internationally acclaimed…
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It is coming
“Leslie’s dark tones are reminiscent of Rebecca Brown, but she is a creative force all her own. Her star is rising. Watch for her.” -Hiromi Goto (In April.)
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Reading Tuesday Nov 8th
This coming Tuesday, I’ll be reading at W2 with Jackie Bateman (Nondescript Rambunctious, Anvil Press) and David Scott Hamilton, who will be reading from his translation of the late Nelly Arcan’s Exit (Anvil Press). There’s a party celebrating the Giller Award announcement at 6; the readings begin at 8, followed by DJ’s. Hal Wake of…
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Two new things
An interview — On Sunday October 30th I’ll be talking about my work on The Storytelling Show on Vancouver’s Co-op Radio (102.7 FM). The show focuses on local female artists. Thanks to Alicia Costa for inviting me to read and discuss my work. The interview will be from 9-10 PM. A review — My review…
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Project Space
My chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects For The New World, just released by Vancouver’s Nomados Literary Publishers, is now available at Project Space, a gallery and book shop in Chinatown located at 222 East Georgia. Copies can also be ordered through Nomados here. A text of “leakage,” a “softwall luminesence” that produces and diminishes its…
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Two upcoming September readings
On Saturday September 24 I’ll be reading with Joanne Arnott, Elaine Woo, Garry Thomas Morse and Stephen Collis at the Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings as part of The Word On The Street Festival. We’ll be reading pieces related to the Enpipe Line project. Event details are here. Thanks to poets & ecoactivists Christine…
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