May 2013
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: First...
It helps that she’s pretty. but it helps more if you aren’t And really, who has seen the wind except under a microscope of black storm? Who is exposed, loneliest and pale for the explaining Who is opposed, homeliest and frail for the restraining. We get what we deserve who decides What lay ahead whose commentary’s accepted swallow the stones, by the spoon, by the fist
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April 2013
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The Rusty Toque Collabortive Poem: Day 29, 2013
Join in on our collaborative poem: April 29, 2013 Line: “dans toutes les langues” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. Post your line...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
Join in on our collaborative poem: April 27, 2013 Line: “Everybody wins” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. Post your line in the...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
Join in on our collaborative poem: April 22, 2013 Line: “Don’t lose out, just lose it” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. Post your...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
Join in on our collaborative poem: April 20, 2013 Line: “and habits are those for which we are made” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
Join in on our collaborative poem: April 19, 2013 Line: “and I’d have a no need for directions. Getting lost would be bad habit” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
The Rusty Toque Collabortive Poem Project: April 17, 2013
April 17, 2013 Line: “I’m not drunk, I’m just disoriented” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. Post...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
April 13, 2013 Line: “concerned but not panicked” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. Post your line in the comment section on our...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
April 12, 2013 Line: “Replace your snivel with the snail of your gentleman’s Katmandu indefensibility” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
April 10, 2013 Line “swallow the stones, by the spoon, by the fist” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. Post your line in the comment...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
Join our collaborative poem project. Add as often as you like too! April 8, 2013 Line “What lay ahead” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty...
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The Rusty Toque Collaborative Poem Project: April...
April 7, 2013 Line “who decides” Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the whole thing at the end of the month on Rusty Blog. http://www.therustytoque.com/collaborative-poem.html
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Collaborative Poem: The Rusty Toque - Add Your...
Here’s the April 3, 2013 line for The Rusty Toque’s collaborative poem: “And really, who has seen the wind except under a microscope of black storm?” Respond to this line with your own in the comments section here: http://www.therustytoque.com/collaborative-poem.html
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The Rusty Toque's Collaborative Poem Project
Hey we’re writing a collaborative poem exquisite corpse-style. Add a line to the comments section here: http://www.therustytoque.com/collaborative-poem.html
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Note that your line won’t appear on the site. Each day for the month of April, we’ll put up a new line for you to respond to (which will be the last line we received the day before). We’ll publish the...
March 2013
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Poems by Camille Martin
GREYISH ELEGY At their wake, shadows mingle. The source of light they cannot see cuts across the bias of mourners’ grief, unfocussed if targeted. Snow blanking out mountain peaks. Words repeated senseless.
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Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Same Numbers,... →
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Another year, another VIDA count. When you look at the raw numbers, it is disheartening, particularly given that this is the third year the count has been done. Three years is enough time to create change, even if it’s a little change. I’m tired of conversations. What else is there to say?…
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No part of this abcentobook by Kevin Spenst
Sources: Line 1 - Blert Jordan Scott Line 2 - Sad Phoenician Robert Kroetsch Line 3 - zygal bpNichol Line 4 - Finnegans Wake James Joyce Line 5 - Canada Post Jason Christie Line 7 - Ligatures Donato Mancinni Line8 Blert Jordan Scott Line 9 - 49th Psalm wayde compton Line 10 - online ad Line 12 - The Apothecary Lisa Robertson Line 13 -...
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TWO BEWILDERED ELEPHANTS COLLIDING by J.J....
TWO BEWILDERED ELEPHANTS COLLIDING The photographer collapsed as his camera from another age floated upward slowly like a bird that has not yet learned fear or evasive movements. No one standing in the vicinity (and there were hundreds even though I stopped counting at seventy-five) knew what the photographer had photographed or why he was now on the sidewalk testimony to abstraction and defeat or...
February 2013
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THE DISINTEGRATION, AS CHILDREN by Adrienne...
From Issue 4 - Poetry by Adrienne Barrett
THE DISINTEGRATION, AS CHILDREN You would have thought, what a gorgeous kid. You’d have thought, what a sweetheart. Gifted, gifted, they all said it. I had an eye for colour, though now I don’t care. I let things be what they are. What the hell are we talking about? Oh, my tragedies. Well, the big drama was the children’s train but I was only...
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A MAN & A WOMAN by Kelly Mark →
A MAN & A WOMAN, 2007 by Kelly Mark DVD video: 8 minutes, 10 seconds, black & white with sound. Edition of 5 & 1 AP SYNOPSIS While working on my 2 hour mash-up movie REM I kept a log book of every movie I watched during this time. The text for “A Man & A Woman” comes from the movie synopsis listed on the cable tv menu. The piece starts off with one word descriptions and...
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The Rusty Toque: Harriet the Blog: The Poetry... →
The Rusty Toque gets a nod from The Poetry Foundation!
“We’ve only recently discovered The Rusty Toque, but so far we’re enjoying what we see. Based in Canada, The Rusty Toque is an online magazine featuring interviews, visual art, fiction and–yes–poetry. Issue 3 features work by some of our favorite writers, like Jacob Wren and bill bissett, Robyn Read, and Ashley-Elizabeth Best.”
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ISSUE 4 of THE RUSTY TOQUE
Wind Almanac (For...
two poems by Mira Gonzalez →
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RUSTY TALK WITH SHEILA HETI
Kathryn Mockler: What is your first memory of writing creatively? Sheila Heti: I don’t have a first memory of writing. Or reading. Or speaking! Or hearing words. KM: What keeps your going as a writer or why do you write? SH: Because not much else makes time feel so bottomless. Read more:
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Thursday Night by Bonnie Bowman
From Issue 2, Spring 2012
Thursday night. I’m at Rude’s house, watching her struggle to open a bottle of wine. Her birth name is Gertrude, which quickly got shortened to Trudy, over the years further shrinking to Trude, and finally, Rude. If she were young enough to be a hip hop DJ, she might be T-Rude or something like that. Neither one of us is young anymore. Continue reading:...
January 2013
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The Swan as Metaphor for Love →
Amelia Gray’s short story The Swan as Metaphor for Love in Joyland
Read our interview with Amelia Gray here: http://www.therustytoque.com/3/post/2012/06/amelia-gray-fiction-writer.html
December 2012
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SOWING BY GILLIAN SZE
Bougainvilleas are crying the morning of departure. Last night’s rain trembles from the petals. The streets already smell of roasted chestnuts.
My goodbye is perfectly round like a candlenut, sour like calamansi. I set it on a shard of coconut outside the house and like a fallen leaf, it roots itself in the fibres, grows and grows and grows.
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November 2012
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