Essays
Where to Begin (Part 1 of “Homestead: Venturing into the Poetics of Place”)
“I’m going home,” I tell the cab driver, as he loads my suitcases into the trunk. He smiles and says,...
Making Art in Winnipeg
To practice art in this particular town is risky. Like all particular towns, this one has its perils. Some say...
The Winnipeg Cold Storage Company
The title of “Winnipeg Cold Storage Company” poses the question of collective memory and what it means to say that...
Notes on Systems, with Winnipeg in Mind
In recent years Winnipeg has had its reputation, at least in the visual arts, blossom internationally. With high profile group...
found:
one city one poet one voice & one love letter It took me a long time to call myself...
Process and Parody, Reading and Writing
I read Linda Besner’s debut The Id Kid (Véhicule, 2011) because I can’t imagine writing like this, for the perfect...
Language that Burns: Remembering Adrienne Rich
There are poets, and then there are poets. The first category is large and consists of all those who write...
Poetry Makes Love: On the Occasion of the Infinite in Poetry
Mary Oliver is a poet who gives her attention to her natural surroundings and to a presence that she finds...
Formally Speaking: Screaming in Pentameter
In my first day in the Berryman archive, browsing through box 5, folder 6, I come upon the first draft...