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Issue 3.18

Fall 2012

what are / the forms / we’d like /
to live in
— David Buuck

Editor: Brook Houglum

Features art by Marian Penner Bancroft and Fran Herndon; poems by George Stanley, Jeff Derksen, Jane Sprague, David Buuck, and others; librettos featured the Opera Project; Sean Howard’s winning entry to the Robin Blaser Poetry contest, and more.

Contributors

Jeff Derksen

from The Vestiges

Jeff Carpenter

Two Poems

Marian Penner Bancroft Hugh Brody

"within that trace": A Conversation

Marian Penner Bancroft

from Human Nature and CHORUS

Roger Farr

Six Bay Area Poets

Brian Ang

from Totality Canto 23

Jasper Bernes

from We Are Nothing and So Can You

David Buuck

from We Do the Polis in Different Voices

Melissa Mack

Of : Formation or Of, Anonymity : Of Black Bloc Fashion

Wendy Trevino

Division of Research

Jeanine Webb

Higgs Boson Fever Fills Cern . . .

Colin Browne

Tom Cone and The Opera Project

Jenny Penberthy

La crise: un drame d'Ubu Moi et Toi

Dave Deveau

Unnatural

Colin Browne

The Oval

Keith Wallace

Fran Herndon and Her Circle

Fran Herndon

Selected Works

Kevin Killian

Fran Herndon

David Farwell

Strand Palace

Jane Sprague

Two Poems

Sean Howard

Disjunctures (possible poems, for richard outram)

George Stanley

Two Poems

Fran Herndon

COVER: Catch Me If You Can, 1962, collage on masonite, 39.37 x 60.33 cm. Courtesy the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco

Events

Upcoming performance of LA CRISE: un drame d’Ubu Moi et Toi

The Editors

Thursday August 22, 2013 8pm at The Apartment 119B E Pender St Vancouver BC V6A 1T6 La Crise: un drame d’Ubu Moi et Toi was written by Jacqueline Leggatt and … Continued

Poetry

from Head Out: (A letter, essay, poem – for C.S. Giscombe

Barry McKinnon

Barry McKinnon Twenty-one years ago: you in Normal Illinois and me in Prince George, B.C. – an unlikely geographical connection, your voice on the phone – smooth, subdued, quiet, … Continued

Long-Form

The Big Bad World of Public Readings

Pierre Coupey

Pierre Coupey Most people think poetry readings are sedate tea-sipping affairs, nowhere near as much fun as a good NHL brawl, and mostly they’re right. Sometimes they degenerate from the … Continued

See to see—

On That was Now, This is Then: 2012/2013 Pre-and-Review

Stephen Collis

This article was originally published in issue 3.18 (Fall 2012) Now that the world didn’t end on December 21, I’m sort of looking forward to 2013. It will be a … Continued

Announcements

Congratulations

The Editors

TCR congratulates Sean Howard, winner of the 2nd Annual Blaser Poetry Award for his poem “disjunctures (possible poems, for Richard Outram),” which appears in TCR 3.18 (Fall 2012). TCR thanks … Continued

A/V

AUDIO / The Oval

The Editors

An archival recording from the second season of The Opera Project, September 22, 2012. The Opera Project was conceived by Tom Cone and Karen Matthews in Fall 2010. The first … Continued

A/V

AUDIO / Unnatural

The Editors

An archival recording from the second season of The Opera Project, September 22, 2012. The Opera Project was conceived by Tom Cone and Karen Matthews in Fall 2010. The first … Continued

A/V

AUDIO / La Crise: un drame d’Ubu Moi et Toi

The Editors

An archival recording from the second season of The Opera Project, September 22, 2012. The Opera Project was conceived by Tom Cone and Karen Matthews in Fall 2010. The first … Continued

In Conversation

Print Interview with Barry McKinnon

Barry McKinnon

reprinted from TCR 1.32 (1984) INTERVIEW / BARRY MCKINNON Sharon Thesen interviewed Barry McKinnon in Prince George in October, 1983. The following transcription was prepared by McKinnon as a condensation … Continued

Long-Form

The Night We Hijacked Leonard Cohen, with digressions

Pierre Coupey

Pierre Coupey Inspired by McKinnon’s “Chairs in the Time Machine,” I thought my virgin blog post should tell the story of the night we hijacked Leonard Cohen –– yes, the … Continued

Long-Form

Chairs in the Time Machine / An Excerpt

Barry McKinnon

Barry McKinnon The following selections are from an unpublished manuscript of prose assemblages, Chairs in the Time Machine. McKinnon, what’s the answer? Professor Layton is standing at the front desk … Continued

Art

Marian Penner Bancroft: Photography

Marian Penner Bancroft

This piece originally appeared in Issue 3.18 (Fall 2012). from Human Nature (2008) Original c-prints 30″ x 30″. Captions below in order of appearance. Alberta View of Abraham Lake and … Continued

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