Category Archives: Poetry

The Reach … The Remembered

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

I am reminded of the title The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition by Judy Grahn by a fragment from Sarah Dowling “This Word: I Want” Entering Sappho apple-pickers forgot, you missed it — the pluckers and not … Continue reading →

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transfigurations and translations

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Francois Lachance

fragments from the frag pool: haiku after bashō gary barwin & derek beaulieu the double spread on pages 38 & 39 transcribed (sans the white space between sections) old pond draws the line frog crosses it fragment of bashogination pondiment … Continue reading →

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Sabot

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Always an auspicious beginning to toss in a shoe… if you threw your shoe into the machine of the worldif you have a shoeif we all threw all the shoes at once,jammed its great cogs and pistons,if it groaned and … Continue reading →

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Turn, turn, turn

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A most magnificent coda: The earth spins and we, utterly, are spun. “Of Contour, of Cadence”Thief in the InteriorPhillip B. Williams And so for day 304008.04.2015

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What Not

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Francois Lachance

derek beaulieu “That’s not writing” The Unbearable Contact with Poets That’s not writing, that’s just playing around. That’s not writing, that’s daydreaming. That’s not writing, that’s showing off. That’s not writing, that’s keyboarding. That’s not writing, that’s calligraphy. There’s more … Continue reading →

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Concrete Leavings

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Susan Holbrookink earl p. 50 (in the Food section) easy uverora e c b ld m r s p. 62 (in the Art section) Erasean eraser a  dandsign i  t p. 80 (in the Music section) artandwritingstanda s    ide p. 109 (in the … Continue reading →

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Transmutations

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Francois Lachance

bpNicol Preservation of 1984 First Screening: Computer Poems THIS POEM SAT DOWN TO WRITE YOU http://www.vispo.com/bp/index.htm And so for day 303604.04.2015

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Listing Two Ways of Listening

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Phil HallGuthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage To listen    they lean forward    kids dowhen you read to them    they listthey know how to listen but adults think of things they have to dothey lean back    tick off items on a … Continue reading →

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E V A P O R A T I O N

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Francois Lachance

VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland Tristan Malavoy on the poetry of Nancy Hünger at 46:26 … there is this idea that language is never fully acquired; it can … Continue reading →

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On the Scent

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Sylvia LegrisGarden Physic My Dear Love, How to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? No quaint, no dainty, no winsome. This smells good, that smells bad, my hands rank with manure. This at least is pure. –V. From … Continue reading →

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