Day

May 29, 2020

The Goose 18.2 Call for Submissions: Miscellany (An Extra-Open Issue)

La version française suit.

Call for Submissions: Miscellany (An Extra-Open Issue)

The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada seeks submissions for issue 18.2, for publication in November 2020. We want your intellectual sidecar projects, your desktop clutter, your knick-knacks, your trifles, your mixtapes, your long-abandoned projects, your slow thinking and half-baked masterpieces about the kinds of spaces we are inhabiting right now—environmental and/or more. In an effort to bend our minds away from the COVID-19 tractor beam and to skirt the ...

Derek Sheffield Wins Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize

McIntyre Amy

Congratulations to ASLE member Derek Sheffield, winner of the 2019 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize (Established) for his collection Not for Luck. Selected by judge Mark Doty, Not for Luck will be published in 2021 by the MSU Press.

“In Not for Luck, Derek Sheffield achieves something of inestimable value: a trustworthy, convincing voice,” writes judge Mark Doty. “A voice, of course, is something we have, but getting it onto the page is another matter entirely. We don’t speak in the compressed mode of lyric poetry, even of a colloquial kind, ...