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Welcome home.

Legendary nights are called into being. What reading elicits is, on neurological imaging, difficult to distinguish from experience itself. We read the word lilac or chai and the olfactory cortex flares. The phrase I pulled the cloth strip through the wire fence will spur the reader’s motor cortex as if it were the movement. Or, […]

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The sweetest thing.

I couldn’t tell you exactly why I associate this pretty pop song, “The Sweetest Thing” by Camera Obscura every time I think of Dale. Then again, it’s obvious… my life so much sweeter with him then without, the loving care and abiding friendship between us (along with his partner, Hoa Nguyen), our mutual affection for […]

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Sublime wins

HUGE CONGRATS TO DEAN GARLICK WINNER OF 2023 EXPOZINE AWARDS (MONTREAL) ENGLISH ZINE DOMESTIC SUBLIME (knife | fork | book, 2023).

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Cheering

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Days like these

Fertil3 at The Printed Word Bookshop Dundas ON 25 August 2024

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Layout: Ralph Kolewe

Readable. Clean. Meticulous. Striking. Pretty.* I don’t know exactly just how I lucked into this. By this, I mean a very special kinship shared/shaped by the love of good work. And food, and drink and plenty of laughs between us. I knew from reading Ralph’s work, his meticulous eye, and ear, he knows what belongs […]

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“Wouldn’t that be great?”

To keep going, you need to feel you are making good work—or moving in the direction of making good work, or interesting work, or are interested in the work you are making—and see that as the thing you are aiming to do. Anything good that happens beyond is a bonus…” Cameron Anstee, Some Silences: Notes […]

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POETRY IS THE REASON

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“Actually, I love this poem.”

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“almost spring”

“There was a story.” There is a story. Norma, Dale & I. Norma hails from Toronto, an artist/poet living in San Francisco making her mark, raising the bar for some time now. She met Dale there (originally from Texas, where Skanky Possum & Slow Poetry in America blossomed) who took a teaching job in Toronto […]