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In Conversation with Michael Crummey
Posted: 08/09/2012
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What a gift is the new quarterly, the opportunity it provides to “converse” over cyberspace with one or another of my favourite authors. I love the candour of Michael’s responses to my questions—especially to the effects of the dream recounted in “Offstage.” He takes a wee poke at the teacher in me, at my river of questions following “Viewfinder...
"Pie in the Small Hours" by Daniel Karasik
Posted: 10/15/2012
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New poetry by Daniel Karasik
The Girls by Julie Eliopoulos
Posted: 06/12/2012
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They hid heroin needles inside flimsy bras and tucked in black garter belts that left tar rings around their legs; their skirts as short as their lives, drew up in breezes.
October Night
Posted: 03/13/2012
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Isabel Huggan - October Night
A poem by Isabel Huggan, featured in Issue 121: Knock, Knock
Crow
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 02/27/2012
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Cornelia Hoogland (whose poetry we most recently published in TNQ #117) is celebrating the launch of her latest book of poetry, Crow.
An old soul: in conversation with Amanda Baker-Patterson
Posted: 02/09/2012
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The judges of our Occasional Verse Contest said of Amanda-Baker Patterson’s 3rd place winner, “Happy Heart Day,” that it was the entry “most in the spirit of our contest’s namesake: light verse well done was Nick’s trademark—and his poems, like this one, often had a teasing edge to them.” Kim sits down with Amanda for a long-distance conversation.
An old soul—Amanda Baker-Patterson
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 02/08/2012
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The judges of our Occasional Verse Contest said of Amanda-Baker Patterson’s 3rd place winner, “Happy Heart Day,” that it was the entry “most in the spirit of our contest’s namesake: light verse well done was Nick’s trademark—and his poems, like this one, often had a teasing edge to them.
Blessings: a conversation with Elizabeth Creith
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 01/30/2012
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Poet, artist, and bookmaker Elizabeth Creith was twice short-listed in 2011's Occasional Verse contest (we're currently accepting entries for this year's contest—the deadline is February 28). We wanted to know more about the sensibility that animated her poems—one a house blessing, the other a paean to her favorite bakery, both...
Mary Kim on How the Earth Moves Poetry
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 12/22/2011
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It was delight to read “Las Frutillas,” Mary Kim’s second place winner in the 2011 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. The poem is set in a marketplace in Chile, a day after the 2010 terremoto (earthquake) in Concepcion.
Scarlet Runner
Posted: 12/14/2011
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A poem by Jennifer Still, featured in Issue 120: Love is Abroad.
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