At the time of writing, the following projects have been tentatively agreed to:
(1) a piece about racialized poets in New Brunswick,
(2) a scholarly piece about Kay Smith,
(3) a review of NB-born Brian Bartlett’s All Manner of Tackle,
(4) a general scholarly article on the poetry of New Brunswick,
(5) a creative nonfiction piece about Poetry Weekend (the once-yearly poetry conference/festival held at UNB),
(6) an essay on Frog Hollow Press’s rebooted New Brunswick Chapbook Series, and
(7) my introduction to a forthcoming anthology of New Brunswick poets.
Who knows what else will get shoehorned in? If you’ve ideas, then do send pitches to halassoced@gmail.com.
Central Canada might be thinking: why focus on New Brunswick, though? To answer, I feel I must start by launching my list-after-a-list explanation with “underneath history,” a list-authenticating poem by Saint Johner R.M. Vaughan:
Lies contempt
You should know that –
you’re in my memoirs, a foot soldier
in my roman à clef
a footnote, numbering
in the thousands . . .
(a selection of dazzling scarves, ECW 1996 p.9)