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subTerrain #59: Vancouver 125 Special Poetry Issue. Cover & illustrations by Dave Barnes. subTerrain #35: On Prudery & Perversion. Cover photo by Vince Klassen. Winner, Best Magazine Cover 200...

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thecanadaproject interviews Shazia Hafiz Ramji : Renee Saklikar of thecanadaproject interviews Shazia Hafiz Ramji, curator of Line Break, the subTerrain blog of art and poetry. 

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When I invited Ray Hsu to respond to “i do not later 5″ by Clint Burnham , I knew Ray would come up with a creative and critical “reading” of Clint’s visual text / art / poem. Ray’s ...

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PART 2 Poets Among Artists: Ray Hsu on “i do not later 5″ by Clint Burnham

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POETS AMONG ARTISTS: “i do not later 5” by Clint Burnham

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Visual and concrete poetry emphasizes the power of the word and its placement on a page. Letters and words hold a limitless amount of power in a reader’s mind, but it is in the way they are wri...

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It’s difficult to write about a poem in isolation, especially one from a collection as terrific as Russell Thornton’s The Hundred Lives. I’m not the only one to think highly of this book; i...

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“WE ARE CONTINUALLY EXPOSED TO THE FLASHBULB OF DEATH”: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALLEN GINSBERG (1953-1996). Presentation House Gallery , North Vancouver. by Trevor Carolan In Chinese, there is...

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POETS AMONG ARTISTS: “imperium” from The Hatch by Colin Browne (Talonbooks, 2015).  Republished with permission.

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In twenty-seven lines, Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s poem “—and her redactions,” which is part of the award-winning collection Children of Air India: Un/authorized Exhibits and Interjection...

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I When they put tablets on each other’s tongues, knowing it was time, and the young woman gave a tablet to their child, saying to him over and over, stroking his hair, sleep, and they lay dow...

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Jon Paul Fiorentino on “Magnum Opus P.U. ” by Kevin Spenst Kevin Spenst’s poem “Magnum Opus P.U.” is in part a nod to the gleeful wordplay that is characteristic of MAD magazine’s ...

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New music: new listening. Not an attempt to understand something that is being said.                                                 –John Cage In the winter of 1957, ...

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HOW A POEM READS: “–and her redactions” from Children of Air India by Renée Saklikar (Nightwood, 2013). 

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On “The Young Hate Us” by Donato Mancini Ryan Fitzpatrick “The Young Hate Us” is the opening sequence of Donato Mancini’s Loitersack (2014), a book that presents itself as a commonpla...

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POETS AMONG ARTISTS: “Magnum Opus P.U.” from Happy Hollow & the Surrey Suite, a chapbook by Kevin Spenst.  Comic strip from MAD Magazine #227, December 1981, illustrated by Mort Drucker .�...

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Hi. My name is Daniel Zomparelli, and I want you to sell me this pen, jk, jk. I will start this off by saying, I am close friends with Dina Del Bucchia, in fact, I am her work husband. One time w...

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HOW A POEM READS: “Jesus is the Other Orpheus” from Normal Poems by Jeremy Stewart.

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Dina Del Bucchia responds to “Selfie ” by Daniel Zomparelli On each reading of Daniel Zomparelli’s “Selfie” I kept thinking about the way we approach photographs from our past, throug...

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HEIDI GRECO RESPONDS TO “NEWSPAPER” , WRITTEN BY MARGUERITE PIGEON & ILLUSTRATED BY DEREK VON ESSEN We know about ekphrastic poems – those that take their inspiration from works of art. ...

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