By Queen Mob

Vlad Interviews: Thomas Walton

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
My bodily ancestors are mostly farmers and laborers. My mother spent her first years in a pig barn in southern Indiana.

Poems for Philosophers

/ Justin E. H. Smith / Misc
I’d rather end up at the morgue / Than in kingdom come with Swedenborg

Interview: Karen Houle

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
I made up that term, folk ecology, riffing on folk psychology which is often denigrated in contemporary evidence-based consciousness studies and brain medicine

Crying into My Scrambled Eggs

/ Denise K. James / Misc
I never learned to buy groceries or to cook, maybe because my mom didn’t really get into those tasks.

Let Me Clarify #8: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Accompanied by my son, I was back at Lucerne’s Museum of Art a few weeks later, channeling my father’s vocal volume at the ticket counter.

Queen Mob Presents: Christopher Woodall

/ Christoper Woodall / Poetry
Half a brain, half a brain, / Half a brain onward / All in the valley of Death

Interview: Arun Sagar

/ Medha Singh / Misc
Anamnesia refers to a little-known disorder characterised by an excess of memory. A disease of not forgetting.

Let Me Clarify #7: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Preserving ethnic heritage was more important to my parents than adapting to a country that had offered them asylum and citizenship.

C.S. Lewis & the Spiritual Tipping Point

/ Yahia Lababidi / Misc
How does a diehard atheist become, in effect, one of the most successful evangelists of the twentieth century?

Slow Stepper

/ I.S. Rowley / Music
May I see you smile, if only from afar? / What's burnt away / can sometimes be restored.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Teresa K. Miller / Misc
The desk belonged to my grandfather. When I was a child, the large pane of glass protecting its fake leather top impressed me.

Let Me Clarify #6: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
My acquaintance is overly concerned with age and appearance—especially mine.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Judson Hamilton / Misc
After the accident he couldn't remember anything. His wife, as luck would have it, was a top-flight neurologist.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ rob mclennan / Misc
This is not my writing desk, but it is where I am every second or third weekend...

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Paula Harris / Misc
Backstage at The Fringe is where some of the other poets in the club hug me.

Interview: Nikki Reimer

/ Jeremy Stewart / Interviews
My work is always too stuffy for Instagram but too stupid for the academy. It fits nowhere. It’s an aging Young-Girl, it’s a bitch.

Let Me Clarify #5: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
My second escape bid from Winnipeg was more successful: I got hitched to a Dutch ballet dancer.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
If I am not physically writing, I am still writing because I’m doing it in my head.

Interview: Sivakami Velliangiri

/ Michelle D'costa / Interviews
One cannot write poetry just sitting in an AC room. You have got to live your life.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Medha Singh / Misc
This is the same place, dead winter Delhi. It was two degrees.

Vlad Interviews: Russell Jaffe

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
One of the best and worst things about people is that we're sense-makers. It's both really cool and tragically perilous.

In defense of stupidity — on love & marriage

/ Jeremy Fernando / Misc
To wed is not only to pledge oneself, to make a vow but to also make a wager, to place a bet on a future.

Review: On Endings

/ Eliza Brilliant / Reviews
Words will always move, always affect. For the ritual of language is not necessitated on understanding, but the desire to understand.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ JA Pak / Misc
Lately, I've been feeling that the wave of writing is over. But it's me that's over,

Interview: Raghav Meattle

/ Queen Mob / Music
I learnt to play the guitar to set a lot of my poems to music. It’s all about what I’m saying through words and melodies. For now, I’m doing it with a guitar.

Interview: Mehdi M. Kashani

/ Michelle D'costa / Interviews
I’ve seen many people who go through tough separations. I find it interesting how they continue to be hung up on their past relationships.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Melissa L. Amstutz / Misc
I’ve put on Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne.” Were you familiar with Leonard Cohen? I regret to inform you that he has passed on, like you.