12/10/2020 POETRY: ARCHANA SRIDHARFOXES IN MICHIGAN hundreds of pelts drip off a flatbed truck spilling faces and paws velvety tongues within our reach flap in the backdraft to the mouth of the mighty Route 66 their innards still pastel pink like Johnson’s baby oil bottles sticky from slaughter dried musk-laden riverbeds lead us to distant edges splendid piles of matted fur splayed voyageurs just foraged in the woods below hawks’ nests not knowing their future hides tanned, skins cured suspended in a forever-sleep of glass-bead eyes dashed hopes and highway lines Archana Sridhar is a poet and university administrator living in Toronto. Archana focuses on themes of meditation, race, motherhood, and diaspora in her poetry and flash writing. Her work has been featured in The Puritan, Barren Magazine, The /tƐmz/ Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook "Renderings" is available through 845 Press, and her writing can be found at www.archanasridhar.com.
12/1/2020 PROSE: GARY BARWINGary Barwin is a writer, composer, musician, and multidisciplinary artist and has published 25 books of fiction, poetry and work for children. His latest books include For It is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems, ed. Alessandro Porco, and Ampers&thropocene (visuals) and A Cemetery for Holes (with Tom Prime). A new novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy will appear from Random House in 2021. He currently WiR at Sheridan College. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario and at garybarwin.com 11/21/2020 POETRY: JESSIE TAYLORMANY NIGHTS AGO The flowers outside my window do not cry anymore. When the war first began, and the weeds took over, they danced about; stretching their roots—perhaps to see how long they could endure it. That and the shrieking kept me up at night, but that was many nights ago. Now they fall in line—silently, with heads hung—single file. The only sound I hear, is the “tap, tap, tap” on my windowpane. "Many Nights Ago" first appeared in Kelvin High School’s literary anthology, Stream (2018). Jessie Taylor is an avid over-thinker. She loves red lipstick, latkes and fresh cherries in July. She is studying at the University of Manitoba.
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