Wednesday 28 February 2018

Emily Izsak : part one


Emily Izsak is the author of Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem (Signature Editions, 2017) and Stickup (shuffaloff/Eternal Network, 2015). Her work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Puritan, House Organ, Cough, CV2, The Doris, and The Hart House Review. In 2014 she was selected as PEN Canada’s New Voices Award nominee.

What are you working on?

I am currently working on a chapbook for above/ground press tentatively titled “25.” The press is turning 25 this year and I turned 25 in January, so I’m writing 25 poems on being 25. I am also working on a full-length collection about avian mating dances.