some videos online of rob mclennan reading

For some reason, there is an awful lot of footage of readings I've done (etcetera) floating around the internet. It just made sense, I suppose, to start compiling some of them.

; reading from Glengarry as part of the 2012 Archibald Lampman Award Shortlist reading (with Michael Blouin & Sandra Ridley) at Collected Works, Ottawa ON: October 14, 2012 ; feature (reading "Texture: Louisiana") at 17 Poets, New Orleans LA: May 10, 2012 ; open set at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: June 14, 2011 ; feature at VERSeFEST, Ottawa ON: March 2011 ; open set at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: September 28, 2010 ; feature at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: June 8, 2010 ; feature (reading from Missing Persons) at The Dusty Owl Reading Series, Ottawa ON: March 3, 2010 ; reading from Missing Persons outside for Peter Simpson/The Big Beat, The Ottawa Citizen: December 22, 2009 ; open set at The TREE Reading Series, Ottawa ON: September 8, 2009 ; interviewed on Ottawa's A-Channel's Breakfast Television on Ottawa: The Unknown City, March 14, 2008 ;

The Last Good Year

My post-mother creative non-fiction work-in-progress:

Crossouts sustain me now. I search out and cherish them like old photographs of my mother in happier times. It may be a stage of grieving that will pass. It may be I’ll never again think of sentences unshadowed in this way. It has changed me. Now I too am someone who knows marks.

Here is an epitaph for my mother I found on p. 19 of the Fitzwilliam Manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Women and Fiction:

such
abandon Obviously it is impossible, I thought, looking into these
ment foaming waters, to
such compare the living with the dead make any comparison
rapture compare them.

Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

First section: The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year;

Second section: house: a (tiny) memoir;

Third section: The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year; The Last Good Year;

12 or 20 (small press) questions (third series):

Conducted by rob mclennan and Lisa Pasold, this new series of “12 or 20 questions” (originally based on mclennan’s own first and second series of interviews with writers) is a response to a conversation between mclennan (founder/coordinator of the ottawa small press book fair) and Pasold (current co-coordinator of the Toronto Small Press Fair) after the fall 2009 edition of the Toronto fair, held at the Gladstone Hotel. Over drinks, the two colluded to work a series of interviews with purveyors of small and micro-press, whether chapbook or book publishers, or editors/publishers of magazines, journals or zines. Much thanks to the Gladstone Hotel, who originally provided drinks and the opportunity, and Open Book Toronto, where a number of these pieces have been featured.   
 

; Jess Mynes on Fewer & Further Press: Western MA: May 19, 2013 ; Carleton Wilson on Junction Books: Toronto ON: April 30, 2013 ; Kristy Bowen on dancing girl press: Chicago Il: June 29, 2012 ; Simone Fattal on The Post-Apollo Press: Sausalito CA: June 11, 2012 ; Aaron Cohick on The NewLights Press: Colorado Springs CO: February 13, 2012 ; Andrew Steeves on Gaspereau Press, Kentville NS: January 29, 2012 ; Dawn Marie Kresan on Palimpsest Press, Kingville ON: November 15, 2011 ; Scott Sweeney on Grey Book Press, Tallahassee FL: October 14, 2011 ; Spencer Gordon on Ferno House, Toronto ON: October 4, 2011 ; Jaime Robles on Woodland Editions, San Francisco CA/Exeter UK: September 22, 2011 ; Rena Rosenwasser and Patricia Dienstfrey on Kelsey Street Press: Berkeley CA: August 31, 2011 ; Rachel Moritz, WinteRed: Minneapolis MN: August 11, 2011 ; Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover, New American Writing: Mill Valley, CA: August 5, 2011 ;  Rupert Loydell, Smallminded Books: Cornwall UK: July 31, 2011 ; Brian Teare, Albion Books: Philadelphia, PA: July 22, 2011 ; Amanda Ackerman + Harold Abamowitz, eohippus labs: Los Angeles, CA: July 5, 2011 ; Vincent Ponka, Emmerson Street Press, Northwestern ON: July 4, 2011 ; Karen Randall, Propolis Press, Northampton MA: April 19, 2011 ; Eric Elshtain, Beard of Bees Press, Chicago Il: April 4, 2011 ; Jen Tynes, Horse Less Press, Denver CO: March 14, 2011 ; John Calabro, Quattro Books, Toronto ON: February 27, 2011 ; Ken Edwards, Reality Street Editions, England: February 12, 2011 ; Jason Dewinetz, Greenboathouse Press, Vernon BC: February 3, 2011 ; kemeny babineau, Laurel Reed Books, Mt. Pleasant ON: January 11, 2011 ; derek beaulieu, NO Press, Calgary AB: January, 3, 2011 ; Kyle Schlesinger, Cuneiform Press, Buffalo NY: December 29, 2010 ; Lary Bremner (Timewell), Obvious Epiphanies Press, Japan: December 14, 2010 ; Rolf Maurer, New Star Books, Vancouver BC: November 30, 2010 ; J.A. Tyler, Mud Luscious Press: September 10, 2010 ; Meredith Quartermain, Nomados, Vancouver BC: August 3, 2010 ; Brian Clements, Firewheel Editions/sentence magazine, Danbury CT: July 26, 2010 ; Edward Smallfield, Apogee Press, Barcelona Spain/Berkeley CA: June 16, 2010 ; Dave Proctor, Wooden Rockets Press, Toronto ON: June 11, 2010 ; Antonio D'Alfonso, Guernica Editions, Montreal QC: June 5, 2010 ; Caleigh (intern), The Porcupine's Quill, Inc., Erin ON: May 25, 2010 ; Christophe Casamassima, Furniture Press, Baltimore MD: May 22, 2010 ; Ralph Alfonso, Bonzo Beat Books, Montreal QC: May 18, 2010 ; Jenny Penberthy, The Capilano Review, Vancouver BC: May 6, 2010 ; William Allegrezza, Moira, Chicago Il: April 29, 2010 ; Anita Lahey, Arc magazine, Montreal QC: April 24, 2010 ; Kitty McKay Lewis, Brick Books, London ON: April 18, 2010 ; Mark McCawley, Greensleeve Editions, Edmonton AB: April 15, 2010 ; The Workhorsery, Toronto ON: April 13, 2010 ; Cameron Anstee, Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa ON: April 6, 2010 ; Angela Carr, Tente, Montreal QC: April 4, 2010 ; Jenna Butler, Rubicon Press, Edmonton AB: March 30, 2010 ; Janet Vickers, Lipstick Press, Gabriola Island BC: March 26, 2010 ; Amanda Earl, AngelHousePress, Ottawa ON: March 22, 2010 ;

12 or 20 questions, second series

From September 2007 to June 2008, to correspond with my time in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, I asked some two hundred writers from North America and beyond a series of similar questions, to see what their answers might be. The result was one hundred and seventy-five responses by one hundred and seventy-five poets, fiction and non-fiction authors from Canada, The United States and England, stretched out over a period of nine or ten months, ending with my own answers to same. Being that I an engaged with a number of writers in Ottawa, I tried to interview as many of them as possible, and as many in Alberta as well, working to learn the community around me in Edmonton, during my tenure west. Much to my surprise, some of the first series of interviews have been taught in University courses, and a couple were even reprinted in a recent issue of Montreal’s Matrix magazine, thanks to editors Andy Brown and Jon Paul Fiorentino. Some have suggested there should be a book version of the series, but why, I wonder, when they’re all already online? And who would want to publish a collection of literary interviews that could run into the hundreds of pages?

This second series, created to correspond with an upcoming period of Toronto activity, is an altered version of those same questions. The goal is the same, to see the range of answers from poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, aiming for a completely different set of authors from the original series, as well as a variety of new questions to replace the original “non-sequitor” question thirteen, provided by Lainna Lane El Jabi. The original question thirteen was lifted from Ellen Degeneres, speaking to David Letterman on his Late Show in late August 2007 about being a talk-show host, and not necessarily caring about their new movie, new television program, new project; sometimes you just want to ask them, she told him, when’s the last time you ate a pear? To replace this question, Lainna has provided a series of about a dozen new questions, which will change randomly from author to author.

Thanks to Lainna for providing new questions, and to Clelia Scala and Amy Logan Holmes at Open Book Toronto and Brian Fawcett at Dooney's Cafe, for publishing some of these interviews on-line as well.

; Sarah Gridley, Cleveland OH: May 24, 2013 ; Steven Artelle, Ottawa ON: May 17, 2013 ; Nigel Wood, London UK: May 14, 2013 ; Paula Eisenstein, Toronto ON: May 6, 2013 ; Dan Thomas-Glass, CA: May 3, 2013 ; Sara Peters, Stanford US/Toronto ON: April 26, 2013 ; Richard Van Camp, Edmonton AB: April 24, 2013 ; Elisabeth de Mariaffi, St. John's NFLD: April 18, 2013 ; Paul Wm. Zits, Calgary AB: April 13, 2013 ; kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Armstrong BC: April 9, 2013 ; Howard Chaykin, United States: April 5, 2013 ; Tamas Dobozy, Waterloo ON: April 3, 2013 ; Gillian Savigny, Toronto ON: March 30, 2013 ; Melanie Hubbard, Tampa FL: March 26, 2013 ; kathryn l. pringle, Oakland CA: March 23, 2013 ; Jessica Hiemstra, Toronto ON: March 20, 2013 ; Erik Lindner, Amsterdam Netherlands: March 13, 2013 ; Christine McNair, Ottawa ON: March 11, 2013 ; Rachel Lebowitz, Halifax NS: March 8, 2013 ; Ashok Mathur, Kamloops BC: March 3, 2013 ; Andrew Szymanski, Montreal QC: February 27, 2013 ; Seth Landman, MA: February 23, 2013 ; Anne Fleming, Vancouver/Kelowna BC: February 20, 2013 ; Heather Birrell, Toronto ON: February 17, 2013 ; Andrea Rexilius, Boulder CO: February 13, 2013 ; Missy Marston, Ottawa ON: February 7, 2013 ; Jason Dickson, London ON: February 2, 2013 ; Kevin Varrone, Philadelphia PA: January 29, 2013 ; Beatriz Hausner, Toronto ON: January 24, 2013 : Mary Austin Speaker, Iowa City IA: January 22, 2013 ; David Peter Clark, Toronto ON: January 15, 2013 ; Laura Walker, Berkeley CA: January 13, 2013 ; Alice Petersen, Shawinigan QC: January 9, 2013 ; Jamie Sharpe, Whitehorse YT: January 7, 2013 ; Don Share, Chicago Il: December 30, 2012 ; Karen Garthe, New York NY: December 20, 2012 ; Yasuko Thanh, Victoria BC: December 14, 2012 ; Karen Mac Cormack, Buffalo NY: December 12, 2012 ; Andrew Grace, Cincinnati OH: December 9, 2012 ; Basma Kavanagh, NS: December 5, 2012 ; Sandy Pool, Calgary AB: December 3, 2012 ; Christine Pountney, Toronto ON: November 27, 2012 ; Kate Schapira, Providence RI: November 22, 2012 ; Julia Bloch, Los Angeles CA: November 19, 2012 ; Spencer Gordon, Toronto ON: November 13, 2012 ; Dale Smith, Toronto ON: November 10, 2012 ; Nyla Matuk, Montreal QC: November 3, 2012 ; Michael Boughn, Toronto ON: November 1, 2012 ; Marci Nelligan, Lancaster PA: October 29, 2012 ; Chris D'Iorio, Toronto ON: October 23, 2012 ; Peter Sanger, South Maitland NS: October 20 ; Marie-Helene Bertino, Brooklyn NY: October 17, 2012 ; Glen Downie, Toronto ON: October 12, 2012 ; Sonia Saikaley, Ottawa ON: October 8, 2012 ; Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Belfast Ireland: October 4, 2012 ; Billie Livingston, Vancouver BC: September 26, 2012 ; Vincent Lam, Toronto ON: September 21, 2012 ; Michael Farrrell, Melbourne AUS: September 16, 2012 ; Michael Lithgow, Chelsea QC: September 10, 2012 ; Bin Ramke, Denver CO: September 6, 2012 ; Laura Broadbent, Montreal QC: September 3, 2012 ; Laura Mullen, Baton Rouge LA: August 31, 2012 ; J.L. Jacobs, Norman, OK: August 26, 2012 ; Aaron Shurin, San Francisco CA: August 21, 2012 ; Sean Howard, Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, NS: August 17, 2012 ; Claire Tacon, Guelph, ON: August 12, 2012 ; Andrew McEwan, Toronto ON: August 6, 2012 ; Michelle Smith, Canada/Scotland: July 26, 2012 ; Heather Jessup, Halifax NS: July 22, 2012 ; Susana Gardner, Zurich, Switzerland: July 16, 2012 ; Megan Kaminski, Lawrence KS: July 10, 2012 ; Susan Steudel, Vancouver BC: July 8, 2012 ; Lise Downe, Toronto ON: July 5, 2012 ; Maria Damon, Minneapolis MN: May 30, 2012 ; Julie Carr, Boulder CO: May 26, 2012 ; Daniel Zomparelli, Vancouver BC: May 22, 2012 ; Peter Hobbs, UK: May 19, 2012 ; Nicole Markotic, Windsor ON: May 16, 2012 ; Marianne Apostolides, Toronto ON: May 12, 2012 ; Lisa Samuels, Auckland NZ: May 1, 2012 ; Chris Jennings, Ottawa ON: April 28, 2012 ; Tamara Faith Berger, Toronto ON: April 20, 2012 ; Matthew Cooperman, Fort Collins CO: April 12, 2012 ; Andrew Burke, Perth AUS: April 5, 2012 ; Megan Burns, New Orleans LA: April 2, 2012 ; D.A. Powell, San Francisco CA: March 25, 2012 ; Alex Leslie, Vancouver BC: March 21, 2012 ; Emily Pettit, Hadley MA: March 17, 2012 ; Deanna Young, Ottawa ON: March 10, 2012 ; Barbara Langhorst, Humboldt SK: March 2, 2012 ; Julie Bruck, San Francisco CA: February 25, 2012 ; Leah Mol, Vancouver BC: February 20, 2012 ; Debora Kuan: February 18, 2012 ; Sarah Mangold, Edmonds WA: February 10, 2012 ; Roo Borson, Toronto ON: February 6, 2012 ; Nicole Lungrigan, ON: February 1, 2012 ; Tim Lilburn, Victoria BC: January 25, 2012 ; Sommer Browning, Denver CO: January 23, 2012 ; Emily Carr, San Palo CA: January 5, 2012 ; Liz Worth, Toronto ON: December 29, 2011 ; Robin Richardson, Toronto ON/New York NY: December 14, 2011 ; Valerie Coulton, Barcelona Spain: December 11, 2011 ; Craig Francis Power, St. John's NFLD: December 3, 2011 ; Paul Hoover, San Francisco CA: November 29, 2011 ; Nico Rogers, Toronto ON: November 24, 2011 ; Laura Lush, Guelph ON: November 18, 2011 ; Leigh Kotsidilis, Montreal QC: November 8, 2011 ; Rachel Moritz, Minneapolis MN: November 1, 2011 ; George Stanley, North Vancouver BC: October 25, 2011 ; Richard Krech, Albany CA: October 25, 2011 ; Rob Benvie, Montreal QC/Toronto ON: October 22, 2011 ; Ian Rankin, Edinburgh Scotland: October 18, 2011 ; Leo Brent Robillard, on Lake Eloida ON: October 16, 2011 ; Laura Boudreau, London, England: October 6, 2011 ; Cathy Stonehouse, East Vancouver, BC: October 2, 2011 ; Ana Božičević, New York NY: September 28, 2011 ; Rusty Priske, Ottawa ON: September 24, 2011 ; Esi Edugyan, Victoria BC: September 17, 2011 ; Dennis E. Bolen, Vancouver BC: September 10, 2011 ; jesslyn delia smith, Ottawa ON: September 3, 2011 ; Kaie Kellough, Montreal QC: August 24, 2011 ; Elisabeth Workman, Minneapolis MN: August 20, 2011 ; Eileen R. Tabios, San Francisco CA: August 14, 2011 ; Adam Sol, Toronto ON: August 9, 2011 ; Gail Scott, Montreal QC: August 3, 2011 ; Matthew Remski, Toronto ON: August 2, 2011 ; Angie Abdou, Fernie BC: July 26, 2011 ; Deborah Poe, New York NY: July 18, 2011 ; Sandra Nicholls, Ottawa ON: July 12, 2011 ; Hailey Hidgon, somewhere between Nashville + Philly: July 12, 2011 ; Miriam Toews, Toronto ON: July 9, 2011 ; Marthe Reed, Lafayette LA: June 28, 2011 ; Danila Botha, Toronto ON: June 20, 2011 ; j/j hastain, Colorado: June 13, 2011 ; Eleni Zisimatos, Montreal QC: June 8, 2011 ; Peter Midgley, Edmonton AB: May 29, 2011 ; Leon Rooke, Toronto ON/Mexico: May 25, 2011 ; Beverly Dahlen, San Francisco CA: May 23, 2011 ; Dawn Promislow, Toronto ON: May 15, 2011 ; Jeremy Hanson-Finger, Toronto ON: May 6, 2011 ; Brenda Hillman, San Francisco CA: April 29, 2011 ; Claudia Coutu Radmore, Ottawa ON: April 27 2011 ; Joel Yanofsky, Montreal QC: April 27, 2011 ; Madeleine Thien, Montreal QC: April 22, 2011 ; Richard Greene, Cobourg ON: April 12, 2011 ; Robert Pinsky, Newton Corner Mass: April 9, 2011 ; J.M. DeMatteis, Upstate NY: April 7, 2011 ; Mike Carey, London UK: April 2, 2011 ; Etgar Keret, Tel Aviv, Israel: March 29, 2011 ; Laurie Fuhr, Calgary AB: March 19, 2011 ; Richard Froude, Denver CO: March 8, 2011 ; Peter Darbyshire, Vancouver BC: March 5, 2011 ; Pam Brown, Blackheath Australia: February 21, 2011 ;  Jesse Glass, Tokyo Japan: February 16, 2011 ; Deb Olin Unferth, Middletown CT: February 8, 2011 ; Greg Santos, New Haven, Conn./Paris, France: January 28, 2011 ; Sarah Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA: January 18, 2011 ; Yasmin Ladha, Muscat, Oman: December 20, 2010 ; Derek Winkler, Toronto ON: November 23, 2010 ; David Dowker, Toronto ON: November 1, 2010 ; Marilyn Irwin, Ottawa ON: October 15, 2010 ; Steven Heighton, Kingston ON: October 12, 2010 ; Rhonda Douglas, Ottawa ON: October 5, 2010 ; Sarah Leavitt, Vancouver BC: September 26, 2010 ; Alissa York, Toronto ON: September 13, 2010 ; Christophe Casamassima, Baltimore MD: August 28, 2010 ; Susan Telfer, Gibsons BC: August 27, 2010 ; Elizabeth Robinson, Boulder CO: August 22, 2010 ; Alisha Piercy, Montreal QC: August 15, 2010 ; Hank Lazer Tuscaloosa AL: August 6, 2010 ; Gabriella Goliger, Ottawa ON: July 29, 2010 ; Nikki Reimer, Vancouver BC: July 23, 2010 ; Robert Earl Stewart, Windsor ON: July 14, 2010 ; Jessica Smith: July 13, 2010 ; Sasha Fletcher, New York NY: July 11, 2010 ; Dorothea Lasky, Philadelphia PA: July 7, 2010 ; Sarah Selecky, Toronto ON: July 5, 2010 ; Mark Goldstein, Toronto ON: June 25, 2010 ; Julie McArthur, Toronto ON: June 13, 2010 ; Susan Tichy, CO: June 10, 2010 ; Billie Livingston, Vancouver BC: June 6, 2010 ; Suzanne Bowness, Ottawa ON: June 3, 2010 ; Andrea Brady, London UK: June 1, 2010 ; Aaron Tucker, Toronto ON: May 31, 2010 ; Andrew Kaufman, Toronto ON: May 26, 2010 ; Susan Briscoe, Sutton QC: May 25, 2010 ; Keith Kumasen Abbott, Boulder CO: May 21, 2010 ; Katherine Govier, Toronto ON: May 17, 2010 ; Timothy Quinn, Toronto ON: May 16, 2010 ; Renee Rodin, Vancouver BC: May 15, 2010 ;  Ann Shin, Toronto ON: May 14, 2010 ; Lily Brown, Athens GA: May 10, 2010 ; Sarah Dowling, Philadelphia PA: May 8, 2010 ; Ryan Knighton, Vancouver BC: May 3, 2010 ; Jeremy Stewart, Prince George BC: May 1, 2010 ; Brian Joseph Davis, Toronto ON: April 27, 2010 ; Ryan Murphy, Brooklyn NY: April 26, 2010 ; Faizal Deen, Ottawa ON: April 22, 2010 ; Travis Nichols, Chicago Il: April 17, 2010 ; Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Toronto ON: April 14, 2010 ; Margaret Sweatman, Winnipeg MB: March 28, 2010 ; Michael Eden Reynolds, Whitehorse YT: March 20, 2010 ; Nino Ricci, Toronto ON: March 11, 2010 ; Sandra Doller, San Diego CA: March 9, 2010 ; Dave Margoshes, Regina SK: March 7, 2010 ;

-->Eleonore Schönmaier, Nova Scotia: February 28, 2010 ; Sonnet L'Abbe, Vancouver BC: February 6, 2010 ; C.D. Wright, Providence RI: January 13, 2010 ; Sarah Pinder, Toronto ON: January 12, 2010 ; Natalee Caple, Calgary AB: December 30, 2009 ; Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Chicago Il: December 18, 2009 ; Alex Boyd, Toronto ON: December 14, 2009 ; Frank Davey, Strathroy ON: December 12, 2009 ; Moez Surani, Kingston ON: December 7, 2009 ; David Helwig, Eldon PEI: December 5, 2009 ; Maleea Acker, Victoria BC: December 2, 2009 ; Peter Jaeger, London England: November 30, 2009 ; Mark Sinnett, Kingston ON: November 27, 2009 ; Lisa Pasold, Toronto ON: November 26, 2009 ; Shannon Bramer, Toronto ON: November 12, 2009 ; Rhonda Waterfall, Vancouver BC: November 8, 2009 ; Jacob Scheier, New York NY: November 7, 2009 ; Barry Dempster, Toronto (York Region) ON: November 6, 2009 ; Lesley Yalen, Northampton MA: November 5, 2009 ; Tony Burgess, Stayner ON: November 4, 2009 ; Rosie Chard, Winnipeg MB: November 1, 2009 ; Joe Rosenblatt, Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island BC: October 31, 2009 ; Chris Hutchinson, Kelowna BC: October 30, 2009 ; Theanna Bischoff, Toronto ON: October 28, 2009 ; Graeme Gibson, Toronto ON: October 27, 2009 ; Angela Hibbiss, Toronto ON: October 23, 2009 ; Richard Truhlar, Toronto ON: October 21, 2009 ; Natalie Zina Walschots, Toronto ON: October 20, 2009 ; Karen Connelly, Greece/Toronto ON: October 18, 2009 ; Sarah de Leeuw, Prince George BC: October 17, 2009 ; Norma Cole, San Francisco CA: October 16, 2009 ; Brian Fawcett, Toronto ON: October 14, 2009 ; Emily Schultz, Toronto ON: October 13, 2009 ; Amy Jones, Toronto ON: October 11, 2009 ; Damian Rogers, Toronto ON: October 10, 2009; Cara Benson, NY: October 9, 2009 ; Joshua Trotter, Montreal QC: October 7, 2009 ; Michael Crummey, St. John's NF: October 6, 2009 ; Stephen Rowe, St. John's NF: October 4, 2009 ; Sean Dixon, Toronto ON: October 2, 2009 ; Michael Turner, Vancouver BC: October 2, 2009 ; Andrew Faulkner, Toronto ON: October 1, 2009 ; Chris Ewart, Vancouver BC: September 28, 2009 ; Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Halifax NS: September 27, 2009 ; Alexandra Leggat, Toronto ON: September 26, 2009 ; Joyelle McSweeney, Notre Dame IN: September 24, 2009 ; Andrew Steinmetz, Ottawa ON: September 23, 2009 ; Anik See, Canada/Holland: September 22, 2009 ; Betsy Struthers, Peterborough ON: September 21, 2009 ; Pearl Pirie, Ottawa ON: September 20, 2009 ; DM Bryan, Calgary AB: September 19, 2009 ; Lea Graham, Poughkeepsie NY: September 18, 2009 ; Kemeny Babineau, Mount Pleasant ON: September 17, 2009 ; Troy Jollimore, CA: September 16, 2009 ; Arjun Basu, Montreal QC: September 15, 2009 ; Angela Szczepaniak, Toronto ON: September 14, 2009 ; Shaindel Beers, Pendleton, Oregon: September 8, 2009 ; Peter Richardson, Gatineau QC: September 7, 2009 ; Sawako Nakayasu, San Diego CA: September 6, 2009 ; Camille Martin, Toronto ON: September 5, 2009 ; Bill Brown, Ottawa ON: September 4, 2009 ; Brenda Niskala, Regina SK: September 3, 2009 ; Gillian Wigmore, Prince George BC: September 2, 2009 ; Ariel Gordon, Winnipeg MB: August 31, 2009 ; Saleema Nawaz, Montreal QC: August 30, 2009 ; Nichole McGill, Ottawa ON: August 29, 2009 ; Mike Spry, Montreal QC: August 28, 2009 ; Anselm Berrigan, New York NY: August 26, 2009 ; Jacqueline Larson, Toronto ON: August 23, 2009 ; John Kinsella, Jam Tree Gully AUS: August 21, 2009 ; Alice Zorn, Montreal QC: August 16, 2009 ; Eva Moran, Toronto ON: August 15, 2009 ; Rae Armantrout, San Diego CA: August 14, 2009 ; Michelle Berry, Toronto ON: August 12, 2009 ; Ken Sparling, Toronto ON: August 12, 2009 ; Charles Bernstein, New York NY: August 10, 2009 ; Jonathan Ball, Calgary AB: August 9, 2009 ; Christine Leclerc, Vancouver BC: August 8, 2009 ; Roland Prevost, Ottawa ON: August 7, 2009 ; Gillian Sze, Toronto ON: August 6, 2009 ; Stephen Henighan, Guelph ON: August 3, 2009 ; Marina Endicott, Edmonton AB: August 2, 2009 ; Ronna Bloom, Toronto ON: July 30, 2009 ; Annabel Lyon, New Westminster BC: July 29, 2009 ; Tess Fragoulis, Montreal QC: July 28, 2009 ; G.C. Waldrep, Louisburg PA: July 26, 2009 ; Cameron Anstee, Ottawa ON: July 24, 2009 ; Arielle Greenberg, Chicago Il: July 23, 2009 ; Craig Poile, Ottawa ON: July 20, 2009 ; Johanna Skibsrud, Montreal QC: July 19, 2009 ; Kevin Killian, San Francisco CA: July 18, 2009 ; Jake Kennedy, Kelowna BC: July 16, 2009 ; Derek McCormack, Toronto ON: July 15, 2009 ; Lisa Robertson, CA: July 13, 2009 ; Beth Bachmann, Nashville TN: July 12, 2009 ; Rebecca Rosenblum, Toronto ON: July 11, 2009 ; Louis Cabri, Windsor ON: July 10, 2009 ; Eric Baus, Denver CO: July 8, 2009 ; Jonathan Bennett, Peterborough ON: July 7, 2009 ; Mary Pinkoski, Edmonton AB: July 6, 2009 ; Marcus McCann, Ottawa ON: July 3, 2009 ; Forrest Gander, Providence RI: July 2, 2009 ; Tim Conley, St. Catharine's ON: June 30, 2009 ; Oana Avasilichioaei, Montreal QC: June 28, 2009 ; Peter Norman, Halifax NS: June 26, 2009 ; Kate Eichhorn, Brooklyn NY: June 25, 2009 ; Zachariah Wells, Vancouver BC: June 24, 2009 ; Asher Ghaffar, Toronto ON: June 22, 2009 ; Jeanette Lynes, Antigonish NS: June 20, 2009 ; Anita Dolman, Ottawa ON: June 19, 2009 ; J.R. Carpenter, Montreal QC: June 18, 2009 ; Daniel Allen Cox, Montreal QC: June 17, 2009 ; Susan Olding, Kingston ON: June 16, 2009 ; Ray Hsu, Vancouver BC: June 14, 2009 ; Karen Houle, Guelph ON: June 13, 2009 ; Matthew Tierney, Toronto ON: June 12, 2009 ; Ken McGoogan, Calgary AB: June 11, 2009 ; Sandra Ridley, Ottawa ON: June 10, 2009 ; Sharon Harris, Toronto ON: June 9, 2009; Jacob McArthur Mooney, Toronto ON: June 8, 2009 ; Antanas Sileika, Toronto ON: June 7, 2009 ; Dayle Furlong, Toronto ON: June 5, 2009 ; Carrie Olivia Adams, Chicago Il: June 4, 2009 ; Jason Dewinetz, Victoria BC: June 1, 2009;

house: a (tiny) memoir

a work-in-progress of memoir pieces about Glengarry County.

We are all governed by what we were as children. Therefore, we tend to refocus again and again on familiar things.
— Michael Ondaatje, Brick #79

THE LOCAL IS NOT a place but a place in a given man — what part of it he has been compelled or else brought by love to give witness to his own mind. And that is THE form, that is, the whole thing, as whole as it can get.
— Robert Creeley, “A Note on the Local,” A Quick Graph

introduction to the project ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; house: a (tiny) memoir ; a note referencing the project, by someone else ; house: a (tiny) memoir ;

12 or 20 questions: archive

"12 or 20 questions" is a series of interviews with Canadian and American (etcetera) poets and fiction writers through a series of core questions (with slight variation between authors) conducted by rob mclennan, and started to coincide with his tenure as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from the beginning of September, 2007 to the end of May, 2008.

David McGimpsey, Montreal QC: August 15, 2008 ; Joan MacLeod, Victoria BC: July 11, 2008 ; rob mclennan, Ottawa ON: June 21, 2008 ; Susan Holbrook, Windsor ON: June 16, 2008 ; Pete Smith, Kamloops BC: June 5, 2008 ; Jen Currin, Vancouver BC: May 30, 2008 ; Diane Schoemperlen, Kingston ON: May 29, 2008 ; Stephanie Bolster, Montreal QC: May 27, 2008 ; Joe Blades, Fredericton NB: May 24, 2008 ; Ted Bishop, Edmonton AB: May 22, 2008 ; Meira Cook, Winnipeg MB: May 20, 2008 ; Jan Conn, Great Barrington ME: May 12, 2008 ; Barbara Nickel, Yarrow BC: May 5, 2008 ; Ron Silliman, Chester County PA: May 2, 2008 ; Carolyn Marie Souaid, Montreal QC: May 1, 2008 ; Shane Rhodes, Ottawa ON: April 17, 2008 ; Alison Pick, Toronto ON: April 14, 2008 ; Dara Wier, Amherst, Massachusetts: April 11, 2008 ; Rachel Zolf, Toronto ON: April 6, 2008 ; Myrna Kostash, Edmonton AB: April 5, 2008 ; Suzanne Buffam, Chicago Il/Oaxaca Mexico: March 27, 2008 ; Jaspreet Singh, Calgary AB: March 26, 2008 ; Stacey May Fowles, Toronto ON: March 26, 2008 ; Beth Follett, Toronto ON/St. John's NFLD: March 25, 2008 ; Eric Folsom, Kingston ON: March 24, 2008 ; Michael Bryson, Toronto ON: March 24, 2008 ; Heather Simeney MacLeod, Edmonton AB: March 20, 2008 ; Naomi Guttman, Clinton NY: March 20, 2008 ; Catherine Bush, Toronto ON: March 14, 2008 ; Harold Rhenisch, Campbell River BC: March 10, 2008 ; Elisabeth Harvor, Ottawa ON: March 9, 2008 ; Aaron McCollough, Ann Arbor MI: March 6, 2008 ; Endre Farkas, Montreal QC: March 1, 2008 ; Ray Robertson, Toronto ON: February 27, 2008 ; Monty Reid, Ottawa ON: February 26, 2008 ; Glen Sorestad, Saskatoon SK: February 25, 2008 ; Peter Culley, Nanaimo BC: February 23, 2008 ; Elise Levine, Baltimore MD: February 22, 2008 ; Jennifer Bartlett, Brooklyn NY: February 21, 2008 ; Lisa Jarnot, New York NY: February 20, 2008 ; Michael Blouin, Oxford Mills ON: February 18, 2008 ; Mary Borsky, Ottawa ON: February 15, 2008 ; Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver BC: February 15, 2008 ; Zoe Whittall, Toronto ON: February 14, 2008 ; Jenna Butler, Edmonton AB: February 14, 2008 ; Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Vancouver BC: February 13, 2008 ; Amy King, New York NY: February 11, 2008 ; Gregory Betts, St. Catharines ON: February 10, 2008 ; Rita Donovan, Ottawa ON: February 9, 2008 ; Katherine Govier, Canmore AB: February 8, 2008 ; John Barton, Victoria BC: February 7, 2008 ; Juliana Spahr, Berkeley CA: February 6, 2008 ; Daniel Scott Tysdal, Toronto ON: February 5, 2008 ; Betsy Warland, Vancouver BC: February 4, 2008 ; Andrew Pyper, Toronto ON: January 29, 2008 ; Lynn Coady, Toronto ON: January 28, 2008 ; Karl Jirgens, Windsor ON: January 26, 2008 ; Laisha Rosnau, Prince George BC: January 23, 2008 ; Adeena Karasick, New York NY: January 20, 2008 ; RM Vaughan, Toronto ON: January 19, 2008 ; Susan M. Schultz, Kane'ohe, Hawai'i: January 18, 2008 ; Natalie Simpson, Calgary AB: January 17, 2008 ; Catherine Hunter, Winnipeg MB: January 17, 2008 ; Mari-Lou Rowley, Saskatoon SK: January 16, 2008 ; Steve McOrmond, Toronto ON: January 15, 2008 ; William Allegrezza, Chicago Il: January 14, 2008 ; Garry Thomas Morse, Vancouver BC: January 13, 2008 ; Gary Barwin, Hamilton ON: January 12, 2008 ; Matthew Zapruder, New York NY: January 12, 2008 ; Maxine Gadd, Vancouver BC: January 11, 2008 ; Christine Wiesenthal, Edmonton AB: January 11, 2008 ; Rosmarie Waldrop, Providence RI: January 11, 2008 ; Kathryn MacLeod, Ladysmith BC: January 10, 2008 ; Maxine Chernoff, San Francisco CA: January 9, 2008 ; Sharon Thesen, Lake Country BC: January 9, 2008 ; Logan Ryan Smith, San Francisco CA: January 8, 2008 ; Margaret Christakos, January 7, 2008 ; Rachel Zucker, New York NY: January 6, 2008 ; Stephen Morrissey, Montreal QC: January 6, 2008 ; Rita Wong, Vancouver BC: January 5, 2008 ; Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver BC: January 4, 2008 ; Greg Hollingshead, Edmonton AB: January 3, 2008

Jon Paul Fiorentino, Montreal QC: December 9, 2007 ; Robert Majzels, Calgary AB: December 8, 2007 ; Mark McCawley, Edmonton AB: December 3, 2007 ; Sheri Benning, Saskatoon SK: December 3, 2007 ; Dennis Cooley, Winnipeg MB: December 2, 2007 ; Lillian Necakov, Toronto ON: November 30, 2007 ; Wayde Compton, Vancouver BC: November 26, 2007 ; Shawna Lemay, Edmonton AB: November 25, 2007 ; Cole Swensen, Iowa City IA: November 25, 2007 ; Jay MillAr, Toronto ON: November 20, 2007 ; Christopher Doda, Toronto ON: November 19, 2007 ; Mairéad Byrne, Providence RI: November 18, 2007 ; Stephen Cain, Toronto ON: November 18, 2007 ; Victor Coleman, Toronto ON: November 17, 2007 ; Sean Johnston, Kelowna BC: November 16, 2007 ; Tom Konyves, Vancouver BC: November 15, 2007 ; Alice Major, Edmonton AB: November 15, 2007 ; Amanda Earl, Ottawa ON: November 15, 2007 ; Lawrence Upton, London/Cornwall UK: November 7, 2007 ; Anne Stone, Vancouver BC: November 6, 2007 ; Janet Holmes, Boise ID: November 5, 2007 ; Mark Frutkin, Ottawa ON: November 5, 2007 ; Rupert Loydell, Cornwall UK: November 3, 2007 ; Kim Goldberg, Nanaimo BC: November 2, 2007 ; Steve Venright, Toronto ON: November 1, 2007 ; Matthew Firth, Ottawa ON: October 31, 2007 ; Donato Mancini, Vancouver BC: October 16, 2007 ; John Lavery, Gatineau QC: October 15, 2007 ; Tony Tost, Durham NC: October 14, 2007 ; Rob Budde, Prince George BC: October 12, 2007 ; derek beaulieu, Calgary AB: October 12, 2007 ; Jill Hartman, Calgary AB: October 11, 2007 ; Heather Haley, Bowen Island BC: October 10, 2007 ; Jason Christie, Vancouver BC: October 10, 2007 ; Anne Simpson, Antigonish NS: October 8, 2007 ; Priscila Uppal, Toronto ON: October 8, 2007 ; Nathalie Stephens, Chicago Il: October 5, 2007 ; Sarah Lang, Canada/US: October 4, 2007 ; Stan Dragland, St. John's NFLD: October 4, 2007 ; Steven Ross Smith, Saskatoon SK: October 4, 2007 ; Todd Babiak, Edmonton AB: October 2, 2007 ; Clare Latremouille, Ottawa ON: October 2, 2007 ; Marilyn Dumont, Edmonton AB: October 1, 2007 ; Adam Dickinson, St. Catharines ON: October 1, 2007 ; Chris Robinson, Ottawa ON: September 30, 2007 ; KI Press, Winnipeg MB: September 29, 2007 ; Michael Dennis, Ottawa ON: September 27, 2007 ; Nadine McInnis, Ottawa ON: September 27, 2007 ; Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, San Francisco CA: September 26, 2007 ; Colin Morton, Ottawa ON: September 25, 2007 ; Christine Stewart, Vancouver BC/Edmonton AB: September 24, 2007 ; Pattie McCarthy, Philadelphia PA: September 24, 2007 ; Marita Dachsel, Edmonton AB: September 24, 2007 ; Monica Kidd, St. John's NFLD: September 24, 2007 ; Andy Weaver, Toronto ON: September 22, 2007 ; Jacob Wren, Montreal QC/Toronto ON: September 19, 2007 ; Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Vermont: September 19, 2007 ; Diane Tucker, Burnaby BC: September 18, 2007 ; Gil McElroy, Colborne ON: September 17, 2007 ; Sheri-D Wilson, Calgary AB: September 17, 2007 ; Kristjana Gunnars, Sechelt BC: September 16, 2007 ; Stan Rogal, Toronto ON: September 14, 2007 ; Stephen Collis, Vancouver BC: September 14, 2007 ; Erin Moure, Montreal QC: September 14, 2007 ; Catherine Kidd, Montreal QC: September 14, 2007 ; Souvankham Thammavongsa, Toronto ON: September 13, 2007 ; Phil Hall, Toronto ON: September 13, 2007 ; Elizabeth Hay, Ottawa ON: September 12, 2007 ; Sheila E. Murphy, Phoenix AZ: September 12, 2007 ; Andy Brown, Montreal QC: September 12, 2007 ; Jessica Westhead, Toronto ON: September 11, 2007 ; Ken Norris, Orono ME: September 11, 2007 ; Douglas Barbour, Edmonton AB: September 11, 2007 ; Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Chicago Il: September 11, 2007 ; Ian Roy, Ottawa ON: September 11, 2007 ; Rob Winger, Ottawa ON: September 10, 2007 ; Lance Blomgren, Vancouver BC: September 10, 2007 ; Kimmy Beach, Red Deer AB: September 9, 2007 ; John-James Ford, Ottawa ON/Colombo Sri Lanka: September 8, 2007 ; George Bowering, Vanouver BC: September 8, 2007 ; Nathaniel G. Moore, Toronto ON: September 7, 2007 ; Stephen Brockwell, Ottawa ON: September 6, 2007 ; Noah Eli Gordon, Denver CO: September 6, 2007 ; Thomas Wharton, Edmonton AB; September 5, 2007 ; Catherine Owen, Edmonton AB; September 4, 2007