The Latest Issue

HA&L issue 15.2
PROCESS

GUEST EDITOR KARL JIRGENS
CLICK HERE to see HA&L issue 15.2 >>>

CONTRIBUTORS:
Karl Jirgens • Jerome Rothenberg • Javier Taboada • Gail Scott • Daphne Marlatt • George Bowering • Cecily Nicholson • Dani Spinosa • Amanda Earl • Aaron Tucker • Frank Davey • Robert Hogg • IAIN BAXTER& • Catherine Heard • George Elliott Clarke • Charles Bernstein • Norman Fischer • Beverley Daurio • Robert Dawson • andrew topel • Steve McCaffery • Karen Mac Cormack • Jaap Blonk • Daniel Lockhart • Vanessa Shields • Clemente Padin • Kent Johnson • André Narbonne • Gord Grisenthwaite • Gustave Morin • Carol Stetser • Karl Kempton • Bryan Sentes • Gregory Betts • Kevin Stebner • derek beaulieu • Ellie Csepregi • Laurie Smith • Peter Hrastovec • Beatriz Hausner • Fernando Aguiar • James Dunnigan • MA|DE • Giovanni Pecoraro • bill bissett • Brian Dedora • Chloe Burrows-Moore • Jacquie Jacobs • Stan Rogal • Phil Hall • Jeanette Lynes • Christopher Dewdney • Steven Ross Smith • Jason Camlot • Louis Cabri • Lillian Nećakov • rob mclennan • Richard Douglass-Chin • Rhea Tregebov • James Deahl • Jody Baltessen • Hart Broudy • Gary Barwin • Károly Bari • Endre Farkas • Daniel F. Bradley • Alan Lord • Marty Gervais • Lorenzo Buj • Rawand Mustafa • Hans Braumüller • Ruggero Maggi • Jim Andrews • Joanne Arnott • Kristina Tiessen • Laura Mulrooney • Lesley Belleau • Michael Dean • Michael Winkler • Márton Koppány • Nico Vassilakis • Niels Hav • Ost Petahtegoose • Paula Claire • Penn Kemp • Jürgen O. Olbrich • Ken Norris • Kim Fahner • Steve Venright • Stuart Ross • Susan Gold • Susan Holbrook • Willow Little • W. Mark Sutherland • Ziggy Fronckevics • Katherine McLeod • Roger Ferreira • Melissa Bennett •

JOIN US! December 8 for HA&L’s 14th Anniversary Launch Party!
R.S.V.P. In-Person and Zoom Event Details here. All are welcome! >>>

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SEE RECENT ISSUES BELOW:

HA&L issue 15.1
CANADIAN CHAPBOOK ISSUE

GUEST EDITORS JIM JOHNSTONE AND SHANE NEILSON

CLICK HERE to see HA&L issue 15.1 >>>

CONTRIBUTORS:
Jim Johnstone • Shane Neilson • Dani Spinosa • Adam Lawrence • David Zieroth • Cameron Anstee •  Ashley Obscura • Adèle Barclay • David Ly • Knife | Fork | Book • Kirby • Jason Dewinetz • Monica Plant • Gillian Dunks • Astra Papachristodoulou • sophie anne edwards • Robert Colman • Tanya Adèle Koehnke * Violet Arenburg •  Sarah Cavar • Diane Wiener • Sarah de Leeuw • George Elliott Clarke • Robert Boates • Tristanne Connolly • Carys Rouleau • Ontario D/deaf/HoH, Disabled, Mad and Neuroatypical Poetics Festival • AND MORE IN HA&L RAVE with Nevena Kovacevic, Renessa Visser, Michael McGuire, Ayaz Pirani, and Linzey Corridon!

HA&L issue 14.2
STEM: THE SCIENCE ISSUE

GUEST EDITOR SIMA RABINOWITZ
CLICK HERE to see HA&L issue 14.2 >>>

CONTRIBUTORS:
Sima Rabinowitz • Remi Recchia • Sneha Madhavan-Reese • Mark McKain • Anne Baldo • Grace Sanchez MacCall • Brittany Friesen • Mackenna Friesen • Paul Elia • Rachael Carnes • Jill K. Gregory • Mark Cembrowski • J.S. Porter • William F. Pinar • George Grant • Kim Morgan • Susan Gibson Garvey • Richard van Holst • Anna van Valkenburg • JB Stone • Charlie C. Petch • Jenn Carson • David Huebert • Gary Fordham • Alexis Moline • Brooke Pratt • Nicholas Bradley • Al Purdy • Bernadette Rule • Jeffery Donaldson • William A. Stephens • Leo Dragtoe • Michael Mitchell • Charles James • Camille Nivera • Tor Lukasik-Foss • Treasa Levasseur • Tuesday Choir •

HA&L issue 14.1 • THE HAMMER

CLICK HERE to see HA&L issue 14.1 >>>

CONTRIBUTORS:
Nicola Winstanley • Stephanie Lewis • Rae Bates • Rae Hendershot • Liz Tessier • C. P. Boyko • Gord Pullar • David Collier • Nichole Fanara • Jeffery Donaldson • William A. Stephens • Jeff Mahoney • Theresa Picone • Earl Miller • Michael Hansen • Mohammad Ferdosi • Wayne Lewchuk • Tom Mcdowell • Stephanie Ross • Cees and Annerie van Gemerden • Maxwell Kennel • Leo Dragtoe • Brian Palmu • Anna Veprinska • Ben Robinson • Danny Jacobs • Linzey Corridon • Carl Watts • Jeff Tessier • David Brace • Natalie Hunter • Bart Gazzola • J.S. Porter • Dennis Lee • Terence Kinsella • Camille Kinsella • Clarence Porter • Janice Kovar • Paul Enright • Keeping Six • Storm • Kelly Wolf • Martin Verrall • John Harvey • The Hated Uncles • Michelle Findlater • James McDonald • Bernadette Rule • Timothy Christian • Peggyanne Mansfield • Daniel Coleman • Camille Nivera • Margaret Watson • Angela Zheng • Mahnoor Memon • Sowmithree Ragothaman • Sahanah Thirukumar •

HA&L issue 13.2
No Longer Still in the Land:
Canadian Mennonites and Affiliate

GUEST EDITOR Grace Kehler
HA&L issue 13.2 >>>

Contributors
Grace Kehler • Christine Donkin • George Elliott Clarke • Lozan Yamolky • Leonard Enns • David Penner • Miriam Stewart-Kroeker • Connie Braun • Jan Guenther Braun • Maxwell Kennel • Di Brandt • Jonathan Dyck • Connie Braun • The DaCapo choir • Tanis MacDonald • Casey Plett • Karen Thiessen • Paul Tiessen • Shane Neilson • Joyce Kehler Hildebrand • Peter Johann • Hildi Froese Tiessen • Paulette Dubé • Daniel Coleman • Geoff Martin • Leo Dragtoe • Dusty Micale • Roxanna Bennett • Paul Lisson • Bart Gazzola • Danny Custodio • Willow Dawson • Kevin Heslop • Lorraine York • Josh Lambier • & MORE in HA&L RAVE with Bart Gazzola on Michael Snow at the Art Gallery of Hamilton • A Memoir from Vanessa Green • AND the latest in our Cross-Canada Book Review Project: Tamar Rubin reviews Matthew Walsh, Jim Nason, and George Elliott Clarke!

 

HA&L issue 13.1
CLIMATE ACTION
THE WORLD OUT THERE
FEATURED DURING HAMILTON ARTS WEEK June 2020!!

GUEST EDITORS Matthew Zantingh and Alec Follett
HA&L issue 13.1 >>>

Contributors:
Madhur Anand • Elise Arsenault • Lisa Szabo-Jones • Lyn Baldwin • Deborah Bowen • Daniel Coleman • John Farr • Alec Follett • Linda Frank • Catherine Gibbon • Geoff Martin • Sarah McGibbon • Emily McGiffin • Kevin Michael Murphy • Robert Pasquini • E. Robert Ross • Daniel Rotsztain • Geoffrey Skirrow • John Terpstra • Matthew Zantingh • Paul Lisson • Karl Jirgens • J.S. Porter • Marshall Soules • Beverly Campbell • Eben Muir Rice • AND MORE IN HA&L RAVE INCLUDING: Hamilton’s Leo Dragtoe • Elizabeth Tessier • and HA&L’s Cross-Canada Book Reviews Project continues!!!

HA&L issue 12.1
Re:Creation Stories

Guest Editor: Johannah Bird
HA&L issue 12.1 >>>

Contributors:
Johannah Bird • Kaitlin Debicki • Wenda Debicki • Sara General • Kent Monkman • Jenny Ferguson • Alyssa General • John Hill • Daniel David Moses • Daniel Lockhart • Jeff Thomas • Terri Monture • Janet Rogers • Philip Cote • Deyo Morrow • Taif Zuhair • AND FIND MORE in HA&L RAVE!

 
HA&L issue 12.2
IMAGINARY SAFE HOUSE
Canadian Dis/Ability Poetics issue

Guest Editors: Shane Neilson, Roxanna Bennett, & Ally Fleming
IMAGINARY SAFE HOUSE
HA&L issue 12.2 >>>

Contributors:
Shane Neilson • Roxanna Bennett • Ally Fleming • Sandra Alland • Sofia Ariza • bill bissett • Leo Dragtoe • Stephanie Yorke • Dorothy Bakker • Stephen Emslie • Anita Dolman • Pearl Pirie • Carla Harris • Stuart Ian McKay • Andrew McEwan • Concetta Principe • Leanne Toshiko Simpson • John Luna • Erin Soros • Bára Hladík • Dominik Parisien • S.K.Y.  Varnam • Clementine Morrigan • Annie Lepage • Aimee Louw • Sue Sinclair • Nancy Viva Davis Halifax • Terry Trowbridge • Sarah Burgess • Khashayar Mohammadi • Karuna Vellino • Jes Sachse • John Pritchard • AND FIND MORE in HA&L RAVE! 

HA&L 10th Anniversary issue
PARALLEL UNIVERSE

Guest Editors: Shane Neilson & Sue Sinclair
the poetries of New Brunswick
HA&L issue eleven.3 >>>

Contributors:
Shane Neilson • Sue Sinclair • Thomas Hodd • Lisa Banks • Kay Smith • Haydée Sainz Gimeno • Sophie M. Lavoie • Nancy Bauer • Jim Johnstone • Danny Jacobs • RM Vaughan • Jennifer Houle • Kayla Geitzler • Jason Avery • Mario Doucette • Matthew Gwathmey • Michael Pacey • Robert Gibbs • Robert Moore • Jenna Lyn Albert • Monica Bolduc • Jenn Carson • Gabriel Robichaud • Neyda Long • Carlos Morales • Juan Carlos Martínez • Angel Moulton • Adam Beardsworth • Emily Skov-Nielsen • Simon Brown • Elena Johnson • Brandon Arnold • Spencer Folkins • Ian LeTourneau • Stephanie Yorke • Daniel H. Dugas • Valerie LeBlanc • Jo-Anne Elder • Symon Jory Stevens-Guille • Brian Bartlett • Herménégilde Chiasson • Tony Tremblay • Matthew Cormier • Barbara Sibbald • Jamie Tennant • M. Travis Lane • Robert Colman • A. F. Moritz • Jeffery Donaldson • James Pollock • James Wilson •

HA&L 10th Anniversary
EXTRA!

HA&L issue eleven.2 >>>

Contributors:
Jeffery Donaldson • Bruce Elder • Kenneth Rexroth • J.S. Porter • John Robert Colombo • B.W. Powe • Joseph Amar • Earl Miller • Hortense Gordon • Susan McCaslin • Leonard Cohen • Gord Pullar • Alfred Joyce • Annerie van Gemerden • Jim Chambers • Roy J. Adams • Jesse Eckerlin • Cory Lavender • Simon Orpana • Rob Kristofferson • Karl Jirgens • Jo-Anne Elder • Stan Rogal • David Lee • Anita Lahey • Karen Barr • Tragically Hip Ballet • Massimo • Anne Bokma • Shane Neilson • Cameron Kroetsch • Richard MacKinnon • James Olwell • Mary Dean Lee • Robert Krantz • Erin Emily Ann Vance • Yuan Hongri • Manu Mangattu • A. F. Moritz • Patrick O’Reilly • Robert Colman • Aaron Schneider • Jenn Carson • M. Teresa Santalucia • Laura Ferri • Artists For Climate Action Collective • Neil & Yvonne Woodley • Tim Inkster • Christine Cowley • Trevor Cole • Alise de Bie • ALSO SEE HA&L RAVE with  Miriam Clavir • Anne Bokma • Jenn Carson • J.S. Porter • B.W. Powe •  Jaclyn Desforges • Emma Mckenna • Lise Beaudry • Shannon Anderson • Rachel More • Margaret Lindsay Holton • Lorraine York • and Megan Mueller •

 

HA&L 10th Anniversary issue
THREE PASSIONS

Guest Editor Rick Stapleton
Guest Poetry Editor Chris Pannell
Featured Artist: Russell collages by Amanda Etches

Celebrating Bertrand Russell
and the 50th Anniversary of the Russell Archives
See HA&L issue eleven.1 here >>>

Contributors:
Rick Stapleton • Bertrand Russell • Kenneth Blackwell • Wade Hemsworth • Andrew Bone • Nicholas Griffin • Sheila Turcon • James G. Greenlee • Terry Fallis • Henry A. Giroux • Tony Simpson • Carl Spadoni • Bernadette Rule • T.S. Eliot [1888- 1965] • Percy Bysshe Shelley [1792- 1822] • Vanessa Bell • Roger Fry • Augustus John • Amanda Etches • Gary Geddes • Jim Slominski • Linda Frank • Katherine Lawrence • Ray Cunnington • Nancy Doubleday • Roger Hyman • Charles Yale Harrison • Robert Nielsen • Karen Barr • Marc Chagall • Tibor Nyilasi [1936-2015] • Donna Nyilasi •

 

HA&L issue ten.2
STORIED LIVES

Guest Editor, Melissa Tanti
Guest Poetry Editor, Canisia Lubrin
See HA&L issue ten.2 here >>>

Contributors:
Melissa Tanti • John Terpstra • Klyde Broox • Kim Echlin • Kaitlin Debicki • Elizabeth Jackson • Nathaniel Laywine • Laura Bridgeman • Ashli Akins • Gary Barwin • Philip Kanwischer • Sarah Kabamba • Shazia Hafiz Ramji • Cara-Lyn Morgan • Patrick de Belen • Matt Snell • Rebecca Morris • Aaron Schneider • Tibor Nyilasi • Donna Nyilasi • Lydia Nyilasi West • P. Mansaram • Stephen Broomer • Bryce Kanbara • Jim Chambers • Shane Neilson • Jamie Tennant • Mark Sampson • Kevin Shaw • Ben Ladouceur • John Barton • J.S. Porter • Dennis Lee • Anita Dolman • Ben Robinson • Darren C. Demaree • Kelly Whiddon • Bernadette Rule • Jeffery Donaldson • Including artwork from Bethany Kenyon • Chloe Kinsella and Richelle Forsey • AND HA&L RAVE with Jeremy Luke Hill and Anne Savage.

HA&L issue ten.1
ASYLUM

Guest Editors, Shane Neilson & Monica Kidd
Guest Poetry Editor, Klara du Plessis
See HA&L issue ten.1 here >>>

Contributors:
John Barton • Derek Beaulieu • Katie L. Price • J.T.H. Connor • Marc di Saverio • James Puntillo • Shane Neilson • Monica Kidd • Jeff Ewing • Cornelia Hoogland • Jenny Montgomery • Tamar Rubin • Phillip Crymble •  Jennifer Zilm • Rachel Jansen • Bradley Necyk • Elaine Whittaker • Catherine Heard • Clarence Porter • Blair Trewartha • Danny Jacobs • David Forsee • Joe Ollmann • Janis Crowe • Yusuf Saadi • Claire Caldwell • Evelyn Lau • Tim Lilburn • Jeff Tessier • Cem Zafir • Including artwork by Andrew McPhail • Richard Hovey • Paul Cvetich and Denise Lisson • Tara Joy Knibbe • AND SEE HA&L RAVE with Archie Zhang • Roy Adams • and Margaret Nowaczyk!

HA&L issue nine.2
PLAY

Guest Editor, David Forsee (1944-2017)
Guest Poetry Editor, Annick MacAskill
See HA&L issue nine.2 here >>>

Contributors:
Cees & Annerie van Gemerden • David Forsee • Shelley Niro • Rick Hill • Mary O’Connor • Nancy Bouchier & Ken Cruikshank • Anne Milne • Robert Clark Yates • Jane Mulkewich • Don McLean • Shane Neilson • Bart Gazzola • Francesca Valente • Nathan Heuer • Bill Viola • Bryce Kanbara • Mina Ao • Rachel Black • David Alexander • Madhur Anand • Sean Gadoury • David Trautrimas • Grace Evans • Jeff Tessier • Avery Tanner • Phoebe Wang • Madeline Bassnett • Josh Smith • Derek Webster • Matthew James Babcock • Salvatore Difalco • Jen Currin • Brenna Clarke Gray • Samita Nandy • Jeanette Lynes • Katja Lee • Lorraine York • Phillip Crymble • Darrell Epp • John Nyman • Danny Jacobs. AND HA&L RAVE with FJ Doucet • James Puntillo • Bernadette Rule • Jeffery Donaldson • Ray Cunnington • Nancy C. Doubleday!

ALSO SEE
HA&L issue nine.1
PLANET EARTH

Guest Poetry Editor, Shane Neilson
Associate Editor, John Nyman
See HA&L issue nine.1 here >>>

Contributors:
Judith Fitzgerald • R. Bruce Elder • Ann-Marie Metten • Thomas Dilworth • Karl Jirgens • M. Travis Lane • Lenore Langs • Stan Rogal • John Hofsess • Stephen Broomer • Shane Neilson • Earle Birney • Al Purdy • Laura Ferri • Chris Pannell • Carole Condé • Karl Beveridge • Earl Miller • Jeff Tessier • V. Jane Gordon • Stephanie Vegh • Sima Rabinowitz • Nancy Holmes • Aganetha Dyck • Kelly Zantingh • Janusz Wrobel • Nicola Winstanley • Annick MacAskill • Kenneth McRobbie • Miklos Legrady • J.S. Porter • Wayne Allan • Jeremy Griffin • Sean Johnston • Bahar Orang • F. A. Meier • Nathaniel G. Moore • Sonya de Laat • Amanda Dudnik • Danny Jacobs • Kim Echlin • AND HA&L RAVE with: Elisha Stam • Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko • Lucia Lippi • Judy Pollard Smith • Shane Neilson • Julia Empey • Jesse Dorey • Rachel Harvey • Elizabeth DiEmanuele • Daniel Coleman •

HA&L magazine
Paul Lisson: Editor
Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer
Associate Editor: Shane Neilson
Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017)
Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015)