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Below are links to my essays and reviews under six headings:

Poetics / Culture of Poetry
Reviews, Close Readings, Interviews
Visual Arts
Cognitive Science
Culture (New Orleans, Cajun, etc.)
Personal Essays

1) Poetics / Culture of Poetry
• Musicality in Poetry
• We are all Walloon poets
• Poetry’s 49th Parallel: Canadian/American Shibboleths
• The Majlis Collaborative Experience
• On Homunculi, Steam Locomotives, and Hans Clodhopper (interview)
• The Fledgling Book Flies the Nest
• The Monostich, True and Found
• On Cross-Pollination: An interview with Camille Martin by James Pickersgill
• Poetry, Art, Music—and the Gift of Synesthesia (an image essay in Talking Writing)
• My Vancouver: Book Heaven
• Traveling with Pessoa: “The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

2) Reviews, Close Readings, Interviews
• 13 Poetry Books on Neptune
• Thumbs-up to 11 poetry books (and so many more)
• Ken Belford’s Decompositions: Intelligent Nature
• Charles Borkhuis: “Write What I Say” (poem)
• Charles Borkhuis: “Write What I Say” (essay)
• Besmilr Brigham: Run Through Rock (poem)
• Besmilr Brigham: The Place of Place (essay)
• Joel Chace: Cleaning the Mirror
• “G” is for Genre: Maxine Chernoff’s Todorov
• Robert Creeley and Francesco Clemente’s Anamorphosis: Death and the Stuff of Dreams
• “Chafing at the Margins: An Interview with Joel Dailey
• Connie Deanovich’s Essence of Saint
• Pixel-Gene Hybridity: David Dowker’s Machine Language
• “how many years without death”: Larry Eigner’s memento mori
• Samuel Greenberg: The Lowly Eye
• Samuel Greenberg’s Braided Secrets
• Barbara Guest’s Musicalities
• Phil Hall: A Widened Field of Signification
• Anselm Hollo: “Hard to say whether the jars’ve gotten any lighter.”
• Anselm Hollo: Motes and Pellets: A Brief Tribute.”
• Trevor Joyce: Let them eat fire
• Lionel Kearns:Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Signifying the Tradition: Kaie Kellough’s Maple Leaf Rag
• The Self vs. Apollo the Dork: Ish Klein’s “WE WILL FREE EACH OTHER”
• Bill Knott’s Strong-Lined Sonnets
• Sonnet L’Abbé: Entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Ann Lauterbach’s Pilgrim of Desire
• Rupert Loydell: Empty Lawns and Battered Days
• “I know I am traveling all the time”: The Twilight Dreams of Artur Lundquist
• Kimberly Lyons’ Fleeting Continuum
• Camille Martin: The Next Big Thing: R Is the Artichoke of Rose
• Camille Martin: Katie Rosenthal interviews Camille Martin on Looms
• Joseph Massey: The Language of Desire to Speak
• Sampling Jay Millar’s Other Poems
• Sheila E. Murphy and Lewis LaCook: Beyond the Bother of Sunlight
• Meredith Quartermain’s Martian Feast
• Miklos Radnoti (1909 – 1944)
• Monty Reid’s The Luskville Reductions: Poems from a Phantom Settlement
• Reading the Minds of Events: Leslie Scalapino’s Plural Time
• Remembering remembering Leslie Scalapino
• Adam Seelig’s Every Day in the Morning (Slow)
• Poetic Polyphony in Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme
• Alberta Turner: What do you mean, mean?
• Mark Weiss (editor and translator): Review of The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
• Robert Zend’s Daymares: Dreams Report the Bankruptcy of Words
• Robert Zend’s Typescapes: Poetry from a Renaissance Man of Letters
• Robert Zend: Poet of Exile, Citizen of the Cosmos
• Robert Zend: Poet without Borders – Preface with Portraits
• Robert Zend: Part 1. Linelife: Premiere of a Rediscovered Treasure
• Robert Zend: Part 2. Dissolving Labels and Boundaries
• Robert Zend: Part 3. Hungary: Childhood and Early Adulthood
• Robert Zend: Part 4. Canada: “Freedom, Everybody’s Homeland”
• Robert Zend: Part 5. Hungarian Literary Roots: The Budapest Joke and Other Influences
• Robert Zend: Part 6. Canadian Literary Cross-Pollination: Marshall McLuhan
• Robert Zend: Part 7. Canadian Literary Cross-Pollination: bpNichol
• Robert Zend: Part 8. Canadian Literary Cross-Pollination: The Three Roberts, Norman McLaren, Glenn Gould
• Robert Zend: Part 9. International Affinities: Argentina (Borges)
• Robert Zend: Part 10. International Affinities: France (Marcel Marceau)
• Robert Zend: Part 11. International Affinities: Italy (Leopardi and Pirandello)
• Robert Zend: Part 12. International Affinities: Belgium (Magritte) and Japan
• Robert Zend: Part 13. Gaskets, Thumbtacks, Toilet Paper Rolls . . . and Doodles
• Robert Zend: Afterword: Citizen of the Macrocosm
• Robert Zend: Announcing The Robert Zend Website

3) Visual Arts
• Decasia: The Seeds of Destruction
• Extreme Inefficiency of the Rube Goldberg Machine: Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go
• Learning to Use a Spoon by Reading Braille: Gail Tarantino
• Slow Remains (a short film)
• Ward Island Ferry (or, underwater life jackets): a short film
• Collage: An Interview with Camille Martin by Amanda Earl
• Photos: The Bus Driver’s Hands, by Camille Martin
• Aerial Photos: Louisiana Waterworld, by Camille Martin
• Photos from Vancouver Writers Fest: Nicole Brossard, John Barton, Catherine Owen (& special guest Fred Wah), by Camille Martin
• Photos: Reflections on a Bus, by Camille Martin

4) Cognitive Science
• I. From Motorcycle to Biopsy: The Messy Desk of the Mind
• II. “I hate my birthday!”—Or, what do elegies by New York school poets have in common with the story of an Italian anarchist?
• Hypnagogic Dreams: John Franklin’s Fig Newton on a Piano Stool

5) Culture (New Orleans, Cajun, etc.)
• Passion Flowers, Gulf Fritillary Butterflies, and Cultural Exoticism
• Fat Tuesday, Krewe of St. Anne: A Photo Essay
• One Stop Shopping: Tuxedos and Po-Boys
• All That Glitters on the Spiderweb: Myth, Race, and Denial
• St. Roch Chapel in New Orleans, a Parallel Universe
• Parallel Universes Redux – St. Joseph’s Altar in New Orleans, a Hybrid Feast
• The Taco Trucks of Columbus, Ohio

6) Personal Essays
• Mamma and The Messiah: An Alzheimer’s Tale of Music Weaving the World Back Together

• My Evangeline: White Bread and Mardi Grad Queens in the Deep South