BOOK REVIEW by J.S. Porter FROM GLOBAL VILLAGE TO GLOBAL MEMBRANE: A REVIEW OF B.W. POWE’S THE CHARGE IN THE GLOBAL MEMBRANE, WITH STREET ART PHOTOS BY MARSHALL SOULES “The new electric environment is a collective poem.” – Marshall McLuhan Two implicit questions skulk around in B.W. Powe’s new book: Who are … Continue reading REVIEW: J.S. Porter / B.W. Powe
TWO POEMS by JENN CARSON Deep vein mnemonic My six year old unaware of his delicate beauty a transitory perfection I have to look away from to grow accustomed to the pain of its eventual absence My baby all smooth skin and elegant arms flexes his tiny bicep sees his inky vein popping says … Continue reading Poetry • Jenn Carson
TWO POEMS by JENN CARSON Deep vein mnemonic My six year old unaware of his delicate beauty a transitory perfection I have to look away from to grow accustomed to the pain of its eventual absence My baby all smooth skin and elegant arms flexes his tiny bicep sees his inky vein popping says … Continue reading Poetry • Jenn Carson
ORANGE by ANNE BOKMA I am an orange solid in your hands heavy as a heart you toss me from one palm to the other and back again then roll me across the kitchen table loosening the dimpled skin that protects the secret inside you push your thumb into the navel and feel the … Continue reading Poetry • Anne Bokma
LONG STANDING TOWER BY ROY J. ADAMS The Tower Poetry Society is, almost certainly, the most resilient local poetry group in Canada, having met continuously for nearly seven decades. On October 12th, the TPS archives, now safely under the management of the Hamilton Public Library, were opened to the public. As Tower Archivist, I was … Continue reading Tower Poetry Society / Roy J. Adams
DAVID by ANNE SAVAGE Memory and time embed in flesh, in dreaming and waking grow together, enfold so intimately, so direly patterned and darkly encrypted. Yet something has begun to make sense across the eons: like an old hand at observing tree rings or layers of fossils, I say yes, here are life and death … Continue reading Poetry • by Anne Savage
Practical Anatomy or What You Didn’t Know Your Body Possessed by Margaret Nowaczyk Cells, chambers, canals, crypts, a selection of cisterns of varying calibers, a pipe, a bridge, a set of nails, cement: a castle starter kit. For antiquity lovers: columns and pyramids. And domed temples. For your travelling needs: vessels, trunks, sacs, and pouches. … Continue reading Poetry • by Margaret Nowaczyk
