HA&L magazine issue 17.1 & 17.2 • Part One • cover

HA&L 16th Anniversary HOME & PLACE   Portfolio: Vehicle • by Maureen Paxton • Detail: Walk Home A Carpentry of Wood and Words • by John Terpstra AS GOOD AS THE TRUTH: Hamilton’s Ray Gamble, and ‘the Way Around Wawa’... by Guy Jones Portfolio: Entanglement • by Nora Kelly • Detail: Vice Grip Story • There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say To You • by Danila Botha Balancing Act • by Miel Sahgal Poetry: ECLIPSE • by Catherine Carmichael Remembering Michael Dmitrius Smykaluk (1930-2022) • by Sara Jensen Short film: based on a poem by Elizabeth Tessier • The Foundry • directed by Sedona Micale • Artwork detail: Clarence Porter   “A LAUGH/CRY SUBJECT”: Online Humour and the Political • by Lorraine York   Taking the Stage, Again • for Ron Hynes, (1950-2015) by David Haskins (1944-2022) Is it just me or? • by Stan Rogal • Image: Babel T. Fishing by Maureen Paxton VISPO: City on the Other Side of Time • by Jim Andrews Postcards From Banff • by Alan Lord HA&L magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.   A Carpentry of Wood and Words by John Terpstra Collage: Home is (more than) a place by Stephanie Sushko Poetry: LEECHES (Or, Landlord Don't Shoot Me) by Vincent Alastair Cartoon: LeechesLeechesLeeches by Gord Pullar Poetry: A Fistful of Dynamite by Darrell Epp Portfolio: Vehicle by Maureen Paxton AS GOOD AS THE TRUTH; Hamilton’s Ray Gamble, and ‘the Way Around Wawa’... by Guy Jones Short Story: There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say To You by Danila Botha Portfolio: Entanglement by Nora Kelly Balancing Act by Miel Sahgal Poetry: sleek by Evelyna Ekoko-Kay Short film: based on a poem by Elizabeth Tessier The Foundry directed by Sedona Micale Taking the Stage, Again for Ron Hynes, (1950 - 2015) by David Haskins (1944-2022) Remembering Michael Dmitrius Smykaluk (1930-2022) by Sara Jensen Four poems from the Chapbook The Weeping Degree: How Astrology Saved Me from Suicide by Kelly Watt Poetry: ILLUMINATION by Halyna Koba Poetry: ECLIPSE by Catherine Carmichael Poetry: The Belvedere by Kushal Poddar Poetry: a backyard elegy by Sedona Micale “A LAUGH/CRY SUBJECT”: Online Humour and the Political by Lorraine York Poetry: Mr. Tan Machine Man and Mar a Lago by B.P. McGee Postcards From Banff by Alan Lord VISPO: City on the Other Side of Time by Jim Andrews Is it just me or? by Stan Rogal Review: Ben Robinson's The Book of Benjamin by Lisa Borkovich Review: Michael Mirolla's The Collection Agency Files “The devil’s nobody’s pal” by Karl Jirgens Don’t Touch the Shoes: Four Post-COVID Poetry Reviews [Sonja Ruth Greckol / John Nyman / Michael Flatt / Sasenarine Persaud] by Carl Watts Reviews: The Poem at Play – Gary Barwin, alone and in collaboration [Gregory Betts / Lillian Nećakov / Tom Prime] by Robert Colman BECOME A MEMBER OF HA&L!  RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Help HA&L to continue publishing! Remembering: Michael Dmitrius Smykaluk (1930-2022) Ron Hynes (1950-2015) David Haskins (1944-2022) HA&L issue 17.2.1 is dedicated to celebrated poet Klyde Broox (1957-2024). Klyde was going to be HAL's Guest Poetry Editor for this issue. “This issue explores how concepts of home as a 'universal' experience are nuanced and problematized and how new understandings of home are discovered, expressed, and embraced. The issue also explores how HAL itself is a home for these kinds of complex understandings.” ― Stephanie Sushko “There are also different clarities. Some things are not meant to be clear; obscurity is their clarity. We should not underestimate obscurity. Obscurity is as rich as luminosity.” ― Etel Adnan Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Associate Editor: Shane Neilson Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Hamilton Arts & Letters 16TH ANNIVERSARY issue 17.1 & 17.2 (part one)   ISSN 1916-8454     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!