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Nix from Lord of Illusions #bmhart #watercolor #cover #thepuritan #lordofillusions #clivebarker

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Three Poems - THE PURITAN

Conceptual Poetry That’s when you pulled out the Sapphic quartet— reminisced bitterly on the subject of women who reverse their direction seasonally in response to root systems. ‘It’s fine’ is what you said, finally taking up the harp of your father ‘I can harvest emoticons for their personal value.’ Yet the whales drone on and pleasure amends history. You’ll learn—functioning badly in a large dream is an even larger version of time travel, a marvelous application. Slower than oceans, less firm than nouns, deep in whose depths great mammals display the sonorous we-shall-inherit-the- earth melodies that deny you wait. One day you’ll feel the holes. Tropes Left By Forebearers No one snuffs the world out but your eyes Or calls the objects they see slight— Somewhere under a sky that has been broken By knowledge and understanding There is a pattern brewing in the …

It’s a wet, cold Saturday in Toronto, but we’re curling up with these three poems from Jay MillAr to keep us warm. 

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(via All Vacations)

Today’s throwback is “All Vacations” by Pasha Malla, from Issue 24: Winter 2014 of The Puritan.

A collection of flash fiction pieces that are compelling, hilarious, absurd, heartfelt, and above all, beautifully written.

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What Makes You Think You’re the One? - THE PURITAN

Later, when I lay in bed with my eyes wide open, I imagined I felt it happen—felt the small bones crunching under the car tire. But fresh snow crunches too and it also makes a faint squeaking sound when you’re going slowly and listening very carefully. My grandmother’s ’76 Valiant just wanted to float. I wasn’t that drunk, but I had been drinking and there was compacted snow all over the road. The cassette machine was flipping the Tusk tape over and over, never getting through its one good song. Alex had been drinking as much as me. But why always think about cause and effect? Do things have to turn out one way because of something that happened before? For the last month it had been all wine and whiskey and a pile of photographs of Alex’s beautiful life. The old kind of photos …

Throwback to Molly Lynch’s wonderful story What Makes You Think You’re the One? in ISSUE 17—SPRING 2012 of The Puritan.

A dark, atmospheric tale with a vivid color palette and a watcher’s eye for detail, Molly Lynch skillfully establishes a throbbing sense of unease that pushes towards a heartfelt climax.

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I have a new piece of fiction out on The Puritan. “Rosario’s Jewel Box” is a modern day queering of LA Virgin/Madonna. Ups to guest editor Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer!  http://puritan-magazine.com/rosarios-jewel-box-sarah-maria-medina/ 

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This entire interview between TC Guest Editor KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR and poet ROXANNA BENNETT (THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE) is so fucking brilliant. Congrats to you both. 

READ IT IN IT’S ENTIRETY HERE

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#ThrowbackThursday: “Parallel” by Sharon Erby

Today’s #throwbackThursday is Sharon Erby’s poem, “Parallel” from Issue 12 of The Puritan. 

http://puritan-magazine.com/parallel/

An excerpt: 

“Brenda’s cousin Silvie visited her thoughts while Brenda was in the shower. Was it seven years ago already since it had happened? Brenda had rushed in wet from rain and no umbrella to get the phone, to hear the news: The firemen and EMTs took Silvie and the girls out of the old Honda. They were already dead. The coal truck had hit the driver’s side. Brenda had slid her soggy back further down the wall in the kitchen with each word Mama said. But now she could see it. Now she knew. They’d always gone everywhere together, Silvie and Rachel and Tory. They always would.”

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Today's #shelfie is Dionne Brand's Inventory - a book that takes stock of the heartsick rolling-news-driven Bush years with a lyric voice that is effortlessly expansive, meticulously controlled, and endlessly original. To this Instagrammer's mind, it's the kind of poetry that makes you want to sit down immediately and write more poetry. #poetry #canlit #inventory #literature #dionnebrand #bookstagram #canadianpoetry #books #thepuritan