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Hey you readers of FFIMS the blog formerly known as - as maybe you can tell
if you've visited here the past few days, I took my blog offline (not
wanting t...
The Deletionist Dances...
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I've been intrigued by the new erasure software/site The Deletionist which
enable you to go to any webpage and then create erasure texts out of it.
Wheth...
Trip & Return at Printer’s Ball 2013!
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We’re counting down the days (hours, minutes!) to July 27th at noon-sharp
when Printer’s Ball 2013 launches. This year the event will be an all-day
affair ...
four new poems at the avatar review
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I have four new poems--"Condition of the living room," "Liner notes: so
sharp, so pencil-thin," "Slow burn: serious," and "Statement"--now online
as part ...
Where Writers Write: Janice Deal
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Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write!
*Where Writers Write* is a weekly series that will feature a different
author every Wedne...
R. M. O'Brien
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FIRST DATE
The city is wartorn—
Birds cycle thro' their songs like car alarms.
We eat pollen w/ insectoid silverware
& vomit EASTERN EUROPE in botanic garde...
Get To Work
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*Sit in sun. Sun goes behind cloud. Look at watch. Notice that second-hand
does not always point directly at little marks on dial. Sometimes it does,
tho...
A Happy Anniversary
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We enjoyed a nice date over a delicious breakfast out this morning with
Iris asleep in the sling, and had a good time thinking of how far we’ve
come since ...
Poem from 1999 by Todd Swift
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*Sometimes I think that being a Protestant*
is very dull. Rather like working
as a librarian, at Hull. Or not at all
the same, instead something flat...
Life Stories #35: Andrew McCarthy
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Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Chris Sanders Photography In
this episode of Life Stories, the podcast series where I interview memoir
writers a...
Drive like a Bastard
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“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start
closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then
drive ...
Thanks, Joe Hill
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Joe Hill has written some incredible stuff (see my review of N0S4A2 here)
and now he’s written an answer to my question about how he stays focused: I
used ...
Tanis MacDonald on Kathryn Mockler’s Onion Man
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Onion Man, Kathryn Mockler. Tightrope Books, 2011. by Tanis MacDonald The
individual poems of Kathryn Mockler’s Onion Man, which hover between a
novel in v...
a review of “Please No More Poetry”
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“Please, No More Poetry is a crucial collection that not only looks back on
a brilliant career, but looks toward the future of the medium itself…”:
Eric Sc...
Dusk Til Dawn
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*Dusk Til Dawn*
You imagine the moon filling a bedroom window
as the towering screen of a drive-in movie theatre
high above a winter field strewn wi...
Book Review: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
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Jagannath
by Karin Tidbeck
Cheeky Frawg Books, 2012.
Fiction Collection.
Review by Alex McElroy.
It is tempting, but reductive, to label the stories in Kar...
Very short fiction summer
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Mother literature has four distinct children: the novel, stout, stable,
liable to bagginess; the novella, a trimmed bush filled with ...
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Aphoria
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I am no proselyte for poetry as a category of human effort. I would no more
advocate for poetry than I would love or dinner or shimmying. People will
pursu...
FORGET-ME-NOTS
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For you, I have
dug and tend
this
garden,
but I am
the sort of gardener
who looks with smug
accomplishment
upon the
heap
of weeds just pulled,
only to ...
Alex Dimitrov
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Alex Dimitrov is the author of* Begging for It*, published by Four Way Books.
He is also the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York
City....
Japan Itinerary
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Tomorrow I leave for Japan for five weeks. My bags are 90% packed and I am
dithering only about what my electronic connectivity options should be but
my ...
The Rotary Dial: The Indestructible Old Man
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The Rotary Dial is a downloadable journal edited by Alexandra Oliver, and
I’m glad to say the May issue has a poem of mine called The Indestructible
Old Ma...
Down in the depths
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A tweet from August C. Bourré (@FishSauce) earlier today sent me on a hunt
for the review I wrote of Warren Ellis’s debut novel, Crooked Little Vein,
which...
The Trillium Book Awards were handed out on Tuesday at a dinner in Toronto.
Michael Chan, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport presented the
awards ...
“I wish that my government had asked me to write poetry about immigration
policy, about Idle No More, about Canada’s complicity in the Middle East,
the Enb...
The new issue of Modern Haiku includes the favorites from the winter-spring 2013 issue:
Haiku
on the rim
of a soap bubble
all this
-Mark Brager
Senryu
math...
A journey through Egyptian fiction starts with the 1919 revolution against
the British and ends with the Arab spring
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace...
Watching movies is a sentimental education. They work through images and
change the way we feel, especially if they come at an impressionable
moment. Stran...
Descanters, readers, writers and the curious alike! Summer is approaching,
the barbeques are sizzling and it’s time for another launch! We are ready
to ste...
Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill presents poems from each of John F Deane’s
previous five Carcanet collections alongside the substantial new title
sequence. T...
The new issue of Verse (Vol 29 #s 2 & 3) is out, with portfolios of poetry
and fiction by
Joanna Howard
Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Sarah Goldstein
Shannon Tharp...