How writer, editor, instructor, and Lowertown resident Chris Johnson forms poems: “one drip at a time”
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How writer, editor, instructor, and Lowertown resident Chris Johnson forms poems: “one drip at a time”

ByJennifer Campbell

By Ben Ladouceur A fact about poets: if you give fifty of them the same topic, they’ll write you fifty very different poems. “Everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!” Elizabeth Bishop famously cried about a trout. Confronted with the same genus, Anne Carson once noted, “You can write on a wall with its heart. It’s because…

How one Lowertown poet and uOttawa professor approaches “the weird genre”
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How one Lowertown poet and uOttawa professor approaches “the weird genre”

ByJennifer Campbell

By Ben Ladouceur At the start of an academic year, one of the first things Professor Kimberly Quiogue Andrews might ask her classroom full of creative writing students is: “What can you tell me about your weird uncle?” Almost everybody has at least one weird uncle. “In a class of fifty,” says Andrews, “it is…