Poetry – Phoebe Ka-Ir Wang

This was my view

January 4, 2015

This was the view during two weeks in December I spent on holiday in Dipper Harbour, a small fishing community on the Bay of Fundy east of Saint John, New Brunswick. I’d watch the lobster boats come in on early afternoons while editing, and a few hours later darkness would catch the sky in its big, embracing net. More…

Writing

Dipper Harbour, Endings, Lobster, New Brunswick, Poetry, Publishing, Revising

#mywritingprocess

April 14, 2014

I got this hashtag stuck on my back by Ryan Pratt of deadletterbirds, whom I met after several months of online back-and-forth for Puritan Magazine and after a very short GO bus ride to Hamilton. What am I working on? Revisions to my first manuscript of poems, in part submitted as my MA in Creative Writing…

Poetry, Writing

On the making of chapbooks and other spare change

November 22, 2013

Last night, I put on my oxford heels to read with four poets at the Odourless Press fall launch. With nearly every fiction writer in town at the Writers’ Trust gala, the evening felt like a tiny cushioned drawer, intimate as a library of rare tobaccos. Occasional Emergencies is a 12 poem series of mostly-ekphrastic poems, published in…

Writing

Bardia Sinaee, Chapbooks, Ferno House, Jeramy Dodds, Mat Laporte, Micropresses, Odourless Press, Poetry, Poetry and Business, Small Presses, Spencer Gordon, Stevie Howell