Issue #3
: Simon Brown Carlie Blume Conyer Clayton Ariel Dawn Kate Feld Mike Ferguson
M.W. Jaeggle Aaron Kreuter Amy LeBlanc John Luna Ian Martin rob mclennan Pearl
Pirie Adam Strauss Erin Emily Ann Vance
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available for free at the following locations:
Open Books: A Poem Emporium (Seattle WA), Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop (Brooklyn NY),
knife| fork | book (Toronto ON) and Passages Bookshop (Portland OR).
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Simon Brown (1979) is a self-taught poet and
interdisciplinary artist from the traditional territory of the Passamaquoddy
nation (southwestern New Brunswick) currently based in rural Québec. His French
and English texts have been presented in collaborative artworks, performances,
collections and artist books, and in magazines such as Lemon Hound, Estuaire, Vallum, Poetry Is Dead, Watts,
and The Blasted Tree. As a translator, he has adapted texts by Erin Robinsong,
Angela Carr, Danielle LaFrance and Jacob Wren, among others. Recent collections
include Grande poussière (with Maude Pilon, squint press,
Montréal, 2017) and Outre-flaques
(Vanloo, Marseille,
2018).
Carlie Blume is an emerging writer of fiction
and poetry. Her writing centres around
deconstructing myths about sexuality, motherhood, and mental health. Her work
has been featured in The Maynard, Loose Lips and Pulp Mag. She lives in Surrey and is currently working on her first
collection of poetry, as well as a novel.
Conyer Clayton is an Ottawa based artist who aims
to live with compassion, gratitude, and awe. Her most recent chapbooks are: Undergrowth (bird, buried press), Mitosis (In/Words Magazine and Press),
and For the Birds. For the Humans. (battleaxe
press). She released a collaborative album with Nathanael Larochette, If the river stood still, in August
2018. Her work appears in ARC, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, The Maynard,
Puddles of Sky Press, and others. She won Arc's 2017 Diana Brebner Prize, and
writes reviews for Canthius. Her
debut full length collection of poetry is forthcoming.
Ariel Dawn lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
She spends her time writing, reading, and studying Tarot. Recent work appears
in canthius, (parenthetical), Foxhole,
Room, and is forthcoming in A Furious Hope anthology.
Kate Feld writes essays, poetry, short
fiction and work that sits between forms. Her writing has appeared in journals
and anthologies including Hotel, The Stinging Fly and The Letters Page.
Mike Ferguson is an American permanently resident
in the UK and widely published in online magazines. His most recent print
collection is the sonnets chapbook Precarious
Real [Maquette Press, 2016] and he edited with Rupert Loydell the music
poems anthology Yesterday’s Music Today [Knives
Forks and Spoons Press, 2015]. A retired English teacher, he co-authored the
education text Writing Workshops
[Cambridge University Press, 2015].
M.W. Jaeggle is a poet from Vancouver, currently
living in Montreal. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dalhousie Review, CV2, Existere, in the anthology Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, and
elsewhere. He was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize.
Aaron Kreuter is the author of the poetry book Arguments for Lawn Chairs (Guernica
Editions, 2016), and the short story collection You and Me, Belonging (Tightrope Books, 2018). I have had my work
appear in journals and magazines such as The
Puritan, Grain, Arc, Poetry
is Dead, The Temz Review, and
other places.
Amy LeBlanc holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and creative writing from the
University of Calgary. She is currently non-fiction editor at filling Station magazine. Her work has
appeared, or is scheduled to appear in Room, Prairie Fire, Contemporary
Verse 2, and EVENT among others.
Amy won the 2018 BrainStorm Poetry Contest for her poem 'Swell'. She is the
author of two chapbooks, most recently Ladybird,
Ladybird published with Anstruther Press in August 2018.
John Luna: I am a dual Canadian-American citizen born of Mexican + American
expatriates. Besides writing, my practice is as a visual artist whose
background includes painting, sculpture and installation, and a teacher working
in the areas of art, design and art history. I currently reside on an island
off of the west coast of N. America. Previous publication of written work in
art criticism and poetry has appeared in Ditch,
Canadian Art, Border Crossings, Canyon,
Cordite, and Matrix, among others. A first collection of poems, Listing (Decoupage Publishing, 2015) was
released through a small independent press with the help of a crowdfunding
campaign. A second book-length manuscript was recently (2017) shortlisted for
the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.
Ian Martin is nobody's mom. Ian's work has
appeared recently in where is the river,
Bad Nudes, Plenitude Magazine, and Pretty
Owl Poetry. Ian has published 4 chapbooks, most recently PLACES TO HIDE (Coven Editions, 2018)
and YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP THIS UP
FOREVER (AngelHousePress, 2018). When he's not writing, Ian develops small
games and complains online. [http://ian-martin.net]
rob
mclennan currently
lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares
with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry,
fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles include the poetry collections How the alphabet was made (Spuyten
Duyvil, 2018) and the forthcoming Household
items (Salmon Poetry, 2019) and A
halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019). He spent the 2007-8 academic
year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and
regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
Pearl Pirie writes in Quebec's countryside. She
has 3 trade collections, most recently, the
pet radish, shrunken from Book*hug. http://www.pearlpirie.com
Adam Strauss lives in Louisville, KY. He is the author of one full-length
collection: For Days (BlazeVox). Most
recently, poems of his appear in Fence,
Interim, The Tiny, and the Brooklyn
Rail.
Erin Emily Ann Vance’s work is forthcoming in Coffin Bell Journal, Augur, Post Ghost Press, and Bad
Nudes. She is a contributing reader and writer for Awkward Mermaid Literary Magazine. A 2017 recipient of the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts Young Artist Prize and a 2018 Finalist for the Alberta
Magazine Awards in Fiction, she completed her MA in Creative Writing in August
2018, and will complete an MA in Folklore in 2020. Erin's debut novel, Advice for Amateur Beekeepers and
Taxidermists will be published by Stonehouse Publishing in 2019.
