The Open Issue
Winter 2011. Vol. 33 No.3
Featuring new work by Montreal poets Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid, the winners of CV2’s “Show Me the Book” Contest and of course, fine new writing by some of Canada’s most talented new and familiar poets.
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… and Trembling
by Cassidy McFadzeanAfter Kierkegaard He draws the blood out of my limbs like handkerchiefs pulled from a sleeve. He presses the... -
Blood is Blood
by Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie SouaidJEW ARAB Bullets. Hail. This brutal rain, This brutal rain, a prologue. a prologue. ... -
Harvest
by Jenna Butlerwhat turns up is not always what we expect among the new potatoes cranberry glass sharded porcelain ... -
Alberta, 1983
by Jenna Butlershe is still young enough to remember the bougainvillea on the eaves old men shuffling in the breezeway... -
Bread
by Michelle ElrickI grind my grandmother’s bones to a powder add a little water from the blue glacier spit and stir, knead... -
Almost Blind
by Richard OslerOnce, in twilight woods, he bent to pass beneath a fallen tree, didn’t see the branch, pointed like a beak.... -
Blood is Blood: The Making of a Two-Voice Poem
Interviewed by Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie SouaidEndre Farkas: We both had a desire to create, contribute to and engage our community — the writing community not the familial/cultural/religious... -
An interview with Michelle Elrick
Interviewed by Clarise FosterIn 2009 CV2 collaborated with The Muses’ Company to hold a new contest called “Show Me the Book.” Michelle Elrick’s... -
An interview with Richard Osler
Interviewed by Clarise FosterIn 2009 CV2 collaborated with The Muses’ Company to hold a new contest called “Show Me the Book.” Richard Osler...