Today, we invite Shannon Webb-Campbell to the blog to share the story behind the writing of “Her Eros Restored”, one of the poems in her latest collection Re: Wild Her. Read on for stories and insights form an artist residency in France where Shannon conceived of and wrote the poem! Take it away Shannon! (Shannon […]
Continue reading
Today, Beatriz Hausner is taking us behind “Everyday Goddesses,” a poem from She Who Lies Above! “Everyday Goddesses” is a distilling of a longer poem inspired by the work of surrealist artist Virginia Tentindo. I initially conceived of it as a kind of incantation in the manner of the ancient elegiac texts. It incorporates elements […]
Continue reading
Today, Sandra Ridley is taking us behind “Torchlight,” a poem from Vixen! Torchlight, as in an illumination in the dark. As experienced by the one who holds the torch? Or as experienced by the one caught in its light? The centered visual element of each page of this sequence in Vixen is the beam of […]
Continue reading
Today, we’ve invited Kate Cayley to the blog to share thoughts on a poem from Lent. The poem, entitled “Of Rats and Floods,” is aptly inspired by an actual rat infestation and flood in her home. But Cayley explains how the initial distress around the infestation changed into empathy for the creatures who have been […]
Continue reading
Today, Daniel Sarah Karasik takes us behind their poem “trans-socialist.” They highlight some of the ideas and politics at play, conceptualizing the poem as method rather than a booksellers’ category and revelling in binding ambiguities. Now handing it off to Karasik: “The implicit understanding is that if you’re committed, if you’re too overtly political, then […]
Continue reading
Book*hug Press acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We recognize the enduring presence of many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and are grateful for the opportunity to meet and work on this territory.
