“I am a love poet, and dedicate all my verses to Love, that god among goddesses, goddess among gods, that…
Trapped in the Echo Chamber
With Prometheus, this summer’s companion piece to the science fiction classic Alien, Ridley Scott has made the exact sort of…
Barry Unsworth
Sometimes it is pure chance that makes you pick up a book. I have no idea, now, what made me…
Feature Friday: “The Devils” (1971)
I was looking for a copy of Lair of the White Worm (1988), my favorite Ken Russell film, but couldn’t…
A Review of The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin
The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin encouraged me to pick up E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, a book…
“Poetries of Resistance,” by Drew Krewer
I was recently asked to write a poetics statement for an anthology in which my work is being published. In…
Creative Engagement with Rodrigo Toscano’s Deck Of Deeds (Counterpath, 2012)
Whoa! Honestly, Rodrigo Toscano’s new book Deck Of Deeds feels to me like the “re-particulated image of his half-decapitated neck…
Creative Engagement with Arielle Guy’s Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire
Is the opening and closing of legs like “remembering the blink”? Arielle Guy’s recently released book Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s…
Feature Friday: “The Heartbreak Kid” (1972)
I know the world is getting better because I can now read X-Men comics on my computer (and touchpad!). But…