Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant-we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one' Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from its prefix, allowing new...

As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. Over the past fifteen years, by harboring and...

What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application' What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife' What happens if a girl...

From the monk who sets himself on fire in a crowded intersection of Saigon ("the familiar corded tendons of his hands, become / a bracken of ashes, a carbon twine of burnt"), to the salmon run in British Columbia ("The salmon word / for...

Digsite draws on Nicholson's experience working in the Alberta oil sands and arboreal forest, taking an archaeological lens to its subject, and in this way, reimagines tens of thousands of years of human existence. These poems grow...

Poems that challenge the depths of perception Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide' Ships, often containing thousands...