Robert Earl Stewart’s poems have appeared in various Canadian and international journals, including Monday Night, nthposition, Iota, Magma, Rampike, and This Magazine. His first book of poems, Something Burned Along the Southern Border, was published in 2009 by Mansfield Press and has recently been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry. Stewart lives [...]
Sparks
stupefied ex-beauty queens
facebooking old flames.
husbands, freshly neutered,
mowing america’s lawns.
the unspeakable realization
of futility, the superstitious
rabble with their pitchforks.
have a beer, read the paper.
circular logic, like after a
layoff. sweaty comedians
dying for a laugh. photons
like a shower of sparks,
jolting the extras back into
wakefulness. it [...]
Encore Literary Magazine is extremely proud to have permission from the executors of the estate of the late Richard Outram to present work by one of Canada’s great poets. In the months to come, poems by Outram will be periodically featured here, thus helping to keep alive the singular voice of, in the words of Alberto Manguel, “one of [...]
Our friend and aspiring poet Kasper Hartman gave a reading recently at a Montreal pub. Kasper’s readings are always interesting. He insists on reciting his poems from memory while fixing the audience with an intense and unnerving glare. We asked how the reading went.
I popped my P’s, but other than that I think it went well. My new [...]
Encore Literary Magazine is extremely proud to have permission from the executors of the estate of the late Richard Outram to present work by one of Canada’s great poets. In the months to come, poems by Outram will be periodically featured here, thus helping to keep alive the singular voice of, in the words of Alberto Manguel, “one of [...]
P. K. Page … is, in brief, a phenomenon; a force majeur in Canadian literary and artistic life; a National Treasure. Her work, sprung from the praiseworthy ambition of the lavishly gifted, bestows upon us rich decades of protean accomplishment, of widespread honour and renown. – Richard Outram
P.K. Page is a visionary, a descendant of Blake [...]
I
Such a slim barrow into which to stuff
a life; such a narrow beam to cross
and brace the walls. Pollarded and shallow-
rooted, it resists the winds, persists
despite its pruning. Stiff and stolid
in its ramrod stance, it stands, but shifts
and strays when no one’s watching. It sees
the road ahead, [...]
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“Language poetry, as I understand it, is based on mistrust of such concepts as author, text, and intention; if so, it’s an exaggeration of complexities of which poets have always been aware, and doesn’t justify giving up on the ancient functions of the art and simply diddling. I don’t [...]
Traveller
We lived in a house near a hostel – sometimes when it was full,
travellers camped on our lawn. One night it was raining,
and the tent of a girl (going to Winnipeg)
was ripped
and leaking. My parents invited her in; they drank borscht,
and talked about the sun. Finally
she [...]
Asa Boxer’s poems and articles have appeared in Poetry London , Arc, Books in Canada, Maisonneuve, and Canadian Notes & Queries (CNQ). He is a past winner of the CBC/enRoute poetry competition and his 2007 collection The Mechanical Bird, published by Véhicule Press, won the Canadian Authors Association Prize. Boxer is the son of poet [...]
