Issue
# 141
Contributors
To This Issue
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Cover Photograph: "Party Hats"
by
Glenn Priestley
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Kathleen Batstone spends most of
her time teaching English literature at Brock University in St.
Catherines, Ontario, and in the summer is involved with Toronto's
Anarchist Free University. Her other pursuits include writing
about food and fiction, and cuisine-inspired travel.
Yvonne Blomer's poetry has won
awards, has been published in Canadian literary journals such
as The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and CV2, and
is included in the upcoming anthology In Fine Form: An Anthology
of Canadian Form Poetry. She is living in the UK where she
is doing her MA in Creative Writing at the University of East
Anglia.
Adrian Bond's stories and poems
have appeared in a variety of journals including Blood & Aphorisms,
The Boston Review, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and The
Malahat Review (forthcoming). He has also published critical
articles on English literature. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario
with his family.
Vaughan Chapman is currently working
on a collection of related stories. Nonetheless, she continues
to write poetry, and the poem published here was catalyzed by
a photograph of the November 4, 1910 Brandon Mental Asylum fire.
She thanks Jane Hirschfield for her poetry.
Ian Colford's stories, reviews,
and commentary have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary
journals since 1992. His story "The reason for the Dream"
was published in the 1998 Journey Prize Anthology. "Pirgi"
is from a manuscript of linked stories entitled Evidence.
He lives in Halifax, N.S.
Jan Conn is a research biologist
working on mosquito genetics, and a poet. Her most recent volume
of poetry is Beauties on Mad River. A new volume Jaguar
Rain: The Margaret Mee Poems is forthcoming in 2006. Most
recently her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Poetry
Ireland Review, Event, Descant and The Antigonish Review.
Mike Corbett has lived most of
his life in Nova Scotia. He grew up in Amherst around the railyard
where his father worked as a station agent through the declining
years of the gold age of rail. He loves mournful country music,
Bach and free jazz. In his music and writing he tries to come
to terms with identity, place and loss. Mike now lives with his
family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. John Corker lives and
writes in Montreal.
Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published
poet. His work appears in publications such as White Wall Review,
Revelation, Event, Canadian Literature, Descant and many others.
It is forthcoming in Queen's Quarterly, and Vallum.
"Yonge Line, Southbound" was commissioned by the CBC
for Poetry Plus in 2004
Shawna Delgaty recently completed
her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia.
In September she will begin her MA in English at York University
Sadiqa de Meijer was a winner in
This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt (2004), in the Other
Voices Fiction Contest (2003) and in CBC's Ontario Today Playwriting
Competition (2000).
Anita Dolman is an Ottawa-based
freelance writer and editor, and managing editor of Poetics.ca.
Her work has recently appeared in Grain, Geist, Utne, The Fiddlehead
and Prism International. Her first chapbook, Scalpel,
tea and shot glass, was published by above/ground press in
fall 2004.
Marjorie Doyle is a writer in St.
John's, Newfoundland. Her work has appeared in Queen's Quarterly,
This Magazine, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Globe
and Mail. She's working on her third book, a collection of
personal essays.
Sheree Fitch has been a published
poet since 1987. She agrees with her friend the late Fred Cogswell
that it is "a long apprenticeship." This year Fitch
will publish three new books. The novel The Gravesavers
(Doubleday Random House), the picture book Peek-A-Little-Boo,
(Orca, illus. by Laura Watson), and a collection of "nonsense
and utter stuff" - If I Had A Million Onions (Tradewind,
illus. by Yayo).
Rhonda Graham is a third year creative
writing student at the University of Victoria.
Jason Guriel lives in Toronto.
His poetry has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Exile
and Taddle Creek. More poems are forthcoming in Arc,
Descant and The Fiddlehead.
Jennifer Harrington won the Hennessey
Literary Award for poetry in 2004. She has been published in literary
journals and magazines in England and Ireland such as Agenda,
Carrillon, Sunday Tribute, Coffee House Poetry and many more.
Her work has been broadcast on RTE radio and a selection has been
included in a book of Haiku, Mermaids Purse.
Robert Hawkes is a Professor emeritus
(UNB: Education). He has had several collections of poetry - the
latest, Poems for the Christmas Season (Broken Jaw).
Ronald Huebert teaches English
at Dalhousie University and Early Modern Studies at the University
of King's College. He is a former editor of The Dalhousie Review;
his most recent book is titled The Performance of Pleasure
in English Renaissance Drama (2003); and poems of his are
appearing in current issues of the Australian Journal LiNQ.
Rhoda Janzen teaches creative writing
and English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She has contributed
poems to many literary journals, including The Yale Review,
The Gettysburg Review, and The American Literary Review.
Gwendolyn Jensen began writing
poems four years ago when she retired from the presidency of Wilson
College (Chambersburg, PA). Her work has appeared in Comstock
Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association,
Mid-America Poetry Review, and passenger. She lives
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dawn Marie Kresan has her Master's
Degree from the University of Windsor, studied creative writing
at Humber College and is the publisher of Palimpsest Press. Her
poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, including
The Dalhousie Review, Vallum, Lichen, The Windsor Review,
and the anthology Body Talk. Work is forthcoming in CV2
and the Anthology Leaving Footsteps.
Steven Lautermilch is a photographer
and poet. Solo exhibits of his photographs from the far west have
been held in galleries from the southwest to the south east. He
has published an artist's book of poems and photographs, Spirit
Writers, two chapbooks, The Small Craft, and What
Falls Away; a new chapbook, Mirror Light is forthcoming;
a new artist's book, Nocturne, will be available shortly.
Ian LeTourneau's poetry has previously
appeared in Arc, The Fiddlehead, and The Antigonish
Review. His book reviews have appeared in The Fiddlehead
and Books in Canada. He now lives in Athabasca, Alberta,
where he is completing his first poetry manuscript.
Mustapha Marrouchi, who lives,
writes and teaches in Toronto, is the author of Signifying
with a Vengeance (SUNY 2002) and Edward Said at the Limits
(SUNY 2004). Islam at Cross-purposes with the West is in
the making.
rob mclennan lives in Ottawa. His
10th collection is stone, book one (Palimpsest Press).
The editor/publisher of above/ground press & STANZAS
magazine, he edits www.poetics.ca with Stephen Brockwell. Every
so often, he says clever things on his blog, www.robmclennan.blogspot.ca.
Anne Merritt is a recent graduate
of Queen's University who lives and writes across the map.
James Moran is an Ottawa journalist.
His poetry has appeared in dig and Bywords Quarterly
Journal, and his fiction in Algonquin Roundtable Review.
He also directs Ottawa's Tree Reading Series, one of Canada's
longest-running literary series.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn's first collection
of poetry, All the Perfect Disguises, was published in
2003. She is currently working on a second collection and a book
of creative nonfiction. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As well, she has just been appointed
Poet Laureate of Halifax for a four-year term.
Diane Penwill lives and works in
Toronto. She has published several travel articles, and other
non-fiction for The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.
"Lush Lives" is her first published short story.
Aaron Pope lives in on Vancouver
Island, B.C. His work can be found in Portal Magazine, When
the Fish Come in Dancing - Stories from the West-Coast Fishery
(Strawberry Hill, 2002), and Polestar's upcoming anthology of
Canadian form-poetry, In Fine Form (2005).
Glenn Priestley graduated from
the Ontario College of Art in 1976 with an Honours diploma and
spent the last year of study in off campus studies in Florence
Italy. He has had numerous solo and group shows throughout Canada
and the United States. In 2004 The Beaverbrook Art Gallery in
Fredericton held a 25 year survey of his work, Glenn Priestley/Variations,
curated by Tom Smart. Since 1996 he has lived in Fredericton N.B.
with his wife and daughter.
Christopher Reibling is a writer,
a musician and visual artist. He has taught creative writing at
York University and Canadian Studies at Johannes Gutenburg University
in Germany. A violinist, he founded the Aradia Baroque Ensemble
in 1993, a 30-member period instrument orchestra which has produced
recordings for Naxos Records and two music videos for the BRAVO
network. He is a music critic for The Toronto Star and
The Globe and Mail.
David Adams Richards was born in
1950 in Newcastle, NB. He graduated from high school and attended
St. Thomas University. David published his first book, The
Coming of Winter, in 1974. He has written 17 books and 13
novels. He lives in Toronto with his wife Peggy, sons John and
Anton.
Christian Riegel lives in Regina
where he teaches Canadian Literature and contemporary poetry at
Campion College, University of Regina. Recent poetry of his has
appeared in Gaspereau Review, Grain, Flood Quarterly, and
New Delta Review.
Mark Rogers lives in Toronto with
his wife, new son, and two cats.
Rosamond Rosenmeier is a professor
emerita at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Her
poetry has appeared in various journals. Her first volume of poetry
was published in 1989 by Alice James Books. She has just collaborated
with the Cuban-born literary critic Flora Gonzales Mandri on a
translation of In the Vortex of the Cyclone by the Afro-Cuban
poet Excilia Saldana, published by the University of Florida Press
in 2002.
Sara Salih is from London, England.
She now lives in Toronto.
Kenneth Sherman's most recent books
are The Well: New and Selected Poems, and Void and Voice:
Essays on Literary and Historical Currents.
Madeline Sonik lives in Victoria,
BC. Her book-length works include the children's novel Belinda
and the Dustbunnys (Hodgepog Press), the novel Arms
(Nightwood Editions), and the short story collection Drying
the Bones (Nightwood Editions).
Valerie Stetson's poetry and fiction
have appeared in literary journals including Event, Prairie
Fire, The New Quarterly, and The Dalhousie Review,
and in several anthologies including Gifts: Poems for Parents
(Sumach Press). In 2001, she received the Bronwen Wallace Award
for short fiction. She lives in Kelowna, B.C.
Christine Stewart-Nuņez is a graduate
student in the creative writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
where in 2003 she was awarded the Academy of America Poets Award.
Her poetry and reviews of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming
in Calyx, The Texas Review, Passages North and Arts
and Letters and others.
Tony Tremblay is one of the Essays/Articles
Editors for The Antigonish Review.
Daniel Scott Tysdal lives on a
farm south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His first collection of
poetry, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using
a Potentially Dangerous Method, is forthcoming from Coteau
Books.
John Vigna is a former professional
basketball player obsessed with hoopshype.com and single malt.
He lives in Vancouver where his dog, Jaine, holds him hostage.
"Two" is his first published work of fiction.
Laura Wang Arseneau was born in
the Philippines and now lives in Grimsby, Ontario. A graduate
of the Ontario College of Art, she has written essays on visual
art as well as non-fiction for Canadian Living and The
Globe and Mail. She studied at the Humber School for Writers
and is at work on a first novel, set in the orchards of Niagara.
"Last Dance" is her first publication in a literary
magazine.
Herb Wyile is an associate professor
of English at Acadia University and has published widely in contemporary
Canadian literature. He is the author of Speculative Fictions:
Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History
(2002) and is one of the editors of two journal special issues,
Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction (2002) and A
Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American
Writing (1998).
Lawrence g. Yates' work has appeared
in The Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly, Descant and
most recently in The Blue Moon Review (U.S.A.). He is presently
seeking a publisher for his first collection of short stories,
Liquid Geography, and has begun work on his second collection
Where Bones River Bones.
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