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Day Jobs, Night Shifts

Fall 2004. Vol. 27 No.2

“Day Jobs Night Shifts: Surviving on Poetry.” Features interviews with John Barton, Joe Denham, and Ron Charach. This issue includes poetry by each of the interviewed authors as well as Michael Aird, Julia McCarthy, and more.

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  • playground

    by John Barton
                  Egg tempera on pressed wood panel, 1948   A compound flagged by concrete, cracks unadorned By blades of grass straggling...

  • book buff

    by John Barton
                 Egg tempera on gesso panel, 1994   Taut prose stripped bare   His skin stretched by time, the relaxed lines...

  • blue sperm whale

    by Ron Charach
    His patient brings in a dream, to infiltrate his own: I’m about five, I’m on a windy beach dragging at...

  • translating passion: after marking too many english 1000 papers

    by Katherine Cameron
    I. It has nothing to do with language—their papers fracture syntax, dangle over the railing of incomprehension. Their logic is...

  • palimpsest on a rainy evening

    by Julia McCarthy
    There’s a lamp in a window like a small moon framed and hung on a house there’s rain    the sound...

  • sans titre

    by Laurent Poliquin
    soulever doucement l’horizon comme un tapis s’y faufiler poussière attendre ne rien dire refuser de franchir le chemin du sol...

  • sans titre

    by Laurent Poliquin
    une fuite endimanchée coquine écartelée du convoi des habitudes dans l’allant cortège Winnipeg transit m’immiscer humide par le détour rond...