HA&L magazine issue 17.1 & 17.2 • part two • cover

HA&L 17 YEARS of PUBLISHING!!! Hello we must be going...   Portfolio • by Shelley Niro • Image detail: Indian Brains When the World Was Green • by Robert Clark Yates Portfolio: Visual Art 1968 – 2023 • by Robert Clark Yates • Detail: Macassa Interview with Catherine Frazee • Accidental Advocacy • by Hannah Prins Home is Land • by Patricia Kozowyk • Detail: Spider in the Garden Portfolio: Baba Link Farm • by Patricia Kozowyk • Detail: Black Walnut in Winter   Portfolio • by Hammered Out Editor Frances Ward REBELLION • by Richard Douglass-Chin HOODED CROW • by Richard Hell A Song: PLASTIMET • original music & concept by Terry Kinsella (1960-2023), words & music by Jim Irvine • recorded by evelyn lunchbox The Watershed Issue • by Daniel Coleman • Hammered Out poetry journal Portfolio • by Terence Kinsella (1960-2023) • Detail: Waterton   Memories of Terry Kinsella • by Tom Baxter • Photo: Tom and Terry, early 80's Portfolio: Landscape • by Denise Lilliman • Detail: Summer Heat Portfolio • by Melanie Cheung • Detail: Wandering Through The Unknown Where do we go from here? • by Alex Sandvoss • Detail: The Delivery Driver OPEN LETTER: Dear HAL Community • by Fareh Malik Armillary Sphere • by Paul Lisson & Fiona Kinsella Literary Waltz • by Shane Neilson • Photo by Guy Jones: Paul & Fiona HA&L magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.   Editorial Introduction: THE FINAL ISSUE OF HAL by Paul Lisson & Fiona Kinsella Literary Waltz by Shane Neilson OPEN LETTER: Dear HAL Community by Fareh Malik REBELLION by Richard Douglass-Chin Poetry: I AM THE PROBLEM by Clarence Porter Interview: Accidental Advocacy – Exploring Perspectives with Catherine Frazee by Hannah Prins Portfolio by Shelley Niro When the World Was Green by Robert Clark Yates Portfolio: Visual Art 1968 – 2023 by Robert Clark Yates SCARS an introduction to 10 poems by Robert Clark Yates 10 selected poems by Robert Clark Yates And a Few Subsequent Salutations by Robert Clark Yates Poetry: J28 by Rita Wong HOODED CROW by Richard Hell Memories of Terry Kinsella (1960-2023) by Tom Baxter Portfolio by Terence Kinsella (1960-2023) Poetry: Driveway, Hamilton by Terry Kinsella (1960-2023) A Song: PLASTIMET original music and concept by Terence Kinsella (1960-2023), words and music by Jim Irvine by evelyn lunchbox Poetry: AN ENVIRONMENTAL LULLABYE & FOR PAUL LISSON by Jeff Mahoney Home is Land by Patricia Kozowyk Portfolio: Baba Link Farm by Patricia Kozowyk Note Poem 1 – SAUDADE: NOTES TOWARDS A POETIC UNDERSTANDING OF A PORTUGUESE WORD by J.S. Porter Note Poem 2 – HOW TO READ HARPER’S MAGAZINE MAY 2018 WITH THE RETRACTABLE TONGUE OF A SNAKE by J.S. Porter Note Poem 3 – ON ANNE CARSON’S “MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HEGEL” by J.S. Porter Note Poem 4 – MASKS (On Marshall Soules’ Photographs of Wall Masks in Havana) by J.S. Porter Portfolio by Hammered Out Editor Frances Ward The Watershed Issue: Reflecting on Hammered Out poetry magazine and destruction of the Red Hill Valley by Daniel Coleman Poetry: environmental survey of the red hill valley by Evelyna Ekoko-Kay Poetry: this escarpment by Lisa Borkovich Poetry: An Atonement to Mother Nature by Lara Gibson Portfolio: Landscape by Denise Lilliman Poetry: Clear Cutting by Ed Woods Portfolio: With Heavy Hearts by Melanie Cheung Portfolio: Where do we go from here? by Alex Sandvoss The Faces We Pass By Every Day by Alex Sandvoss The Influencer by Alex Sandvoss Short Story At The Re-Invention Of Becker: Part Two by Michael Mirolla A New Year’s Haunting by Sandra Campbell Memoir: FREEDOM’S JUST ANOTHER WORD by Jennette Lukasik (1940-2023) Poetry: Starting West by Ben Hemsworth Poetry: I was Born into a Minefield OR Explosive Histories by Violet Arenburg THE FIELD: Dionne, Doomscrolling and Aaron Boothby’s Retroprogressive Blast From The Past by Shane Neilson Not A Bird Course: Review of Drew Pisarra’s book Fassbinder – His Movies, My Poems by Vikram Bondai Short Film: based on a poem by Endre Szkárosi (1952-2022) KASSAK Directed by Peter Stevens (1963-2015) HA&L Biographical Sketch for Peter Stevens from the first issue of Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine by Vikram Bondai David Hutchison Forsee [1944-2017] by Vikram Bondai Found Music: Fischer's Hotel, Hamilton, ON, 1950 curated by Lee Rosevere Video: VOKS Collective Performance Is The Artist Present? by Paul Lisson Cartoon by Terry Kinsella & Fiona Kinsella Armillary Sphere by Paul Lisson & Fiona Kinsella JOIN US for HAL's FINAL Anniversary Event at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, October 10, 2024 CALL to Hamilton Area Writers – SUBMIT! Enter the Short Works Prize for Writing! ALL NEW GUIDELINES for 2024! Submit a piece of writing that has NEVER been published before. This is the FINAL year we'll organize SWP! This is the LAST issue of HA&L magazine & WE ARE FUNDRAISING! Renew YOUR Membership! Help Paul and Fiona through this transition: SAY FAREWELL TO HAL by becoming a Member >>> “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.” ― Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers, 1930 “Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...” ―  Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi, 1970 Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor Associate Editor: Shane Neilson Associate Editor: Kathryn Waring Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Hamilton Arts & Letters 17 YEARS of PUBLISHING! issue 17.1 & 17.2 (part two) ISSN 1916-8454 THE END, XO!     HAL on Twitter                                              HA&L magazine acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council an Ontario Government Agency, the City of Hamilton, and the Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members and sponsors – we wouldn't be here without you!