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Last Updated: May 12th, 2010 - 07:00:04 |
Interviews
Eleni Zisimatos Spotlighted
I used to have a ritual, where I would go in my quiet room, sit on the floor with pillows and use a typewriter to type. I especially liked doing this in the winter, when it was crisp outside.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Mary di Michele Spotlighted
Sometimes it feels as if it is an angel, terrible in its beauty and totally mysterious shaking me to my core. When I think about it rather than get visited by it I would say that the muse is like what Jung called the collective unconscious, it is the source of symbols, the deepest images, the dreams that we share; it is language itself, and it is in our DNA.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Susan Gillis Spotlighted
Now that flying has become so difficult, I’m reluctant to travel as much as I used to. But it has been very important, for its power to disrupt and disturb assumptions. I have two homes—the place I live during the school year and the place I live during the breaks, and having these two places means I’m never completely settled.
Apr 1, 2010, 00:01
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Robyn Sarah Spotlighted
For me, poems usually begin with a phrase I like the sound of. I call these “tinder words”. They come to me from nowhere—sometimes they occur as part of a letter I’m writing or a journal entry, or in conversation; sometimes they just come into my head and I jot them down.
Jan 27, 2010, 11:18
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Carolyn Zonailo Spotlighted
On the west coast, one measures human life against nature; here one measures the individual's life against history, time, ancestors, generations, and the decades of people who lived here before I ever came to Montreal. The stretch of historical time, those layers of human habitation in this particular locale, bring a different perspective.
Jan 11, 2010, 11:20
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Mark Abley Spotlighted
Nothing works for me without an initial inspiration, and inspiration can't be forced. After that shard or scrap of inspiration -- an image, a phrase, a memory, a place, whatever -- then the hard work begins. I tend to rewrite a lot. I wish I'd rewritten some of my early poems a lot more. (Mark Abley)
Jan 7, 2010, 12:17
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Stephen Morrissey Spotlighted
My ambition has always been to write a thematically cohesive book. I remember, in high school, running home at lunch time and listening to the Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” I believe this is one of the first concept or thematic albums. Then, there was also Frank Zappas’s parody of the Beatles’ album, and that was also fun. It was from the Beatles that I had the idea of a thematic book of poems, and I’ve followed this ever since. (Stephen Morrissey)
Jan 5, 2010, 10:07
Interviews
Kaie Kellough Spotlighted
in principle i love to travel, but in practice travel is a pain in the ass cuz it’s expensive & uncomfortable & complicated. in the case of travel i am careful to let the principle guide the practice. travel is important to my writing because it displaces & challenges identity. i have traveled alot within canada, and this makes it hard for me to identify provincially or regionally. i’m not a québecker or a westerner, an albertan or a prairie person. i try to let a broad appreciation of canada’s many solitudes inform my writing, and i can do this because i’ve been from c to c.
Jan 5, 2010, 10:05
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Brian Campbell Spotlighted
In my 20’s and 30’s I was very inspiration driven, which meant of course that, as I became more self-critical, my production became very sporadic, and eventually – shortly after I arrived here – shut down altogether. (Brian Campbell)
Jan 5, 2010, 10:04
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Anne Cimon Spotlighted
At the age of twenty-five or so, I enrolled in a women's poetry workshop and this changed my life and my writing as I studied Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Rich and Denise Levertov. This workshop led to joining a writers' group and writing poetry seriously from a woman's experience inspired by these other women writers who led the way to a new emotional openness and honest lyrics. (Anne Cimon)
Jan 5, 2010, 10:02
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