James Dewar is a fine poet, teacher, publisher and friend. This is a great interview about all things poetic. Share...

Musings on story and death

At Sanctuary on Saturday, we began, as usual, with proprioceptive writing… a free flow of thoughts, ideas and images, with the anchor of asking, when a word shimmers with energy, “what do I mean by — ?” and then answering that question. I have...

What Men Do and Don’t Do

In my novel, The Cost of Weather, there is a scene where the protagonist and his closest friend are having coffee in a cafe. Simon, the protagonist, has asked his friend to meet him, having reached a crisis point and in need of advice.   When this scene was read at...