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new work out in Grain 52.3
it’s been a bit of a dry spell, and i’m glad it’s broken. my poem, “the tower” has been published in the current issue of Grain (in the same issue as a poem by Evelyn Lau — probably the first contemporary young-woman writer i read way back in 1995): https://grainmagazine.ca/shop-and-support/current-issue.
into the weeds/ on reading and the structure of the novel
[edited on December 18th because i screwed up the title of Matrix.] i have an unusually high number of half-finished books for me (for reference: i’m usually reading 4-5 books at a time, but i do tend to finish most of them in a timely way) — some that have been unfinished untouched for most…
brief and incomplete: thoughts on Nan Goldin, Josiah Neufeld, money and complicity in the arts
Yesterday, i watched All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the documentary about photographer Nan Goldin, twice in one day. (It was really good. And it’s currently streaming on Crave in Canada and whatever HBO streams on elsewhere.) The searing way Goldin speaks about her sister — her suicide and the way she was institutionalized as…
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