20221229

Train : a journal unlucky in love

Issue #13 : Shawn Adrian Charlotte Jung Adam Lawrence Meghan Kemp-Gee Jessica Lee McMillan Colin Morton Toast Wong

 

Train : a poetry journal #13

Shawn Adrian is a poet currently residing in Selkirk, Manitoba. His two poetry chapbooks are Metis head birth & one hundred heads hydra (ZED Press, 2021), and Metanoia’s Prairie (Anstruther Press, 2022).

Charlotte Jung is a concrete minimalist poet and abstract experimental playwright. She’s originally from Stockholm, Sweden and today she divides her time between the Stockholm countryside, and her adopted hometown Chicago. Chapbooks published; MBRYO (Puddles of Sky Press, 2019), (SEED) (Timglaset Editions, 2020), HOLE BEING (NoPress, 2021) and ABCDE (Trombone, 2021). Her poetry has also been seen in (among others); Molecule, Illiterature, ToCall, Pocket Lint and Ad Lucem. Please see www.charlottejungwriter.com for more information about Charlotte and her writing.

Meghan Kemp-Gee recently published a prose chapbook called What I Meant to Ask. Her debut full-length poetry collection, The Animal in the Room, is forthcoming from Coach House Books in Spring 2023.  She also co-created Contested Strip, the world’s best comic about ultimate frisbee. She currently lives somewhere between North Vancouver BC and Fredericton NB. You can find her on Twitter @MadMollGreen.

Adam Lawrence’s scholarly essays on folklore and science fiction have appeared in several journals, including two anthologies in the McFarland series “Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy” (2013, 2014). His poetry has appeared in Vallum: Contemporary PoetryThe Feathertale ReviewCypress Press, and long con magazine. He’s currently at work on several poetry chapbook projects. Adam holds an MA and PhD in English, and currently works as a freelance editor and writer in Florenceville-Bristol, the “French Fry Capital of the World.”

Most people in high school thought Jessica Lee McMillan used psychedelics, but really, she was learning to become a poet. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Blank Spaces, Pocket Lint (gnurr), The South Shore Review, Antilang, Tiny Spoon, Pinhole Poetry, Dream Pop Journal, Willows Wept Review, SORTES, Lover's Eye Press, Red Alder Review and others. She writes from New Westminster, British Columbia. www.jessicaleemcmillan.com
twitter.com/JessicaLeeMcM 

Ottawa poet Colin Morton has published many books and chapbooks of poetry including award winners The Merzbook: Kurt Scwitters Poems and Coastlines of the Archipelago, as well as stories and reviews, a novel, and an award-winning animated film. He has twice won the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. www.colinmorton.net

Toast Wong is an activist, engineer and butch idiot living in Toronto, Ontario. Growing up on the Credit River, she writes about diaspora and gender, divorce and science with a lack of regard for her physical integrity. Sometimes, late at night, you can see her drive like an asshole in the West End.

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