I met Alison Gadsby many moons ago at the Toronto Junction Reads Prose reading series she's been curating and hosting for nearly two decades now. Alison is a bright light in a big city, passionately shining her light on prose writers, offering them a friendly stage in which to read and share and sell their… Continue reading Interview with Alison Gadsby
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Interview with Jane Christmas about her new book ‘A Flight of Saints’!
*SOME SPOILERS!* *CONTENT WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE!* Friends, I'm super excited to share this just-under-an-hour zoom interview I had with the incomparable Jane Christmas! Her new book and first foray into fiction, A Flight of Saints, is out in the world and you must read it! Yes, there's a different name on the cover of this… Continue reading Interview with Jane Christmas about her new book ‘A Flight of Saints’!
Poem 157 – yesterday’s wrong & Part I of the Bruce Meyer Interview
Yesterday’s wrong the wind left in a hurrygot tangled in a field of sunflowerson the side of an Italian highwayinside a memory flickering in my mind yesterday’s cloak of Wrongis still clamped to my clavicleit’s too hot for this kind of holdingtoday will be the work of letting go if you see a shadow limpingit… Continue reading Poem 157 – yesterday’s wrong & Part I of the Bruce Meyer Interview
Poem 117 – Two Sleeps ’till Cheesecake
Two Sleeps ‘till Cheesecake the comfort foods brings is realfrom the moment you know it’s coming… warm sourdough bread soaking up warm buttergreen grapes so crunchy your teeth smilehot fudge - the spoonful at the bottom of the bowlmelted ice cream bubbly & thina salty french fry to wipe up the sidescheesecake thick cold so… Continue reading Poem 117 – Two Sleeps ’till Cheesecake
VANESSA SHIELDS 