Written by filling Station | 01 July 2009

Issue #45 now on bookshelves all over! 

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Table of Contents:

Editorial by Laurie Fuhr ................................................3
Poetry..........................................................................5
Kevin Kaiser ................................................................. 6
Jordan Grant .............................................................. 7
Sean Howard ............................................................8
Brian Price ................................................................. 10
Paul William Zits ......................................................... 13
Jake Kennedy & kevin mcpherson-eckhoff ................... 14
ryan fitzpatrick .......................................................... 16
Lesley Battler ............................................................. 18
Simon Trafford ........................................................... 24
fiction....................................................................... 27
G. David Schwartz ................................................... 28
Joe Sacksteder ......................................................... 30
Heather Fowler .........................................................34
fine arts ....................................................................37
Koren Scott ............................................................... 38
June Hills .................................................................... 42
non-fiction ..................................................................47
rob mclennan - an old poem
embedded in thoughts on marilyn monroe................ 48
derek beaulieu - review of
Rob the Plagiarist by Robert Fitterman ................... 49
Brent Schaus
review of Scalawags by Jim Christy ...................... 50
Colin Martin - Jack be Nimble Jack be Spry
by Mike Spry ......................................................... 52
Paul Margach - cover review
of Chet: Gentile Moods ...................................... 54
James Dangerous - review of Sloth
by Gilbert Hernandez ......................................... 55
A is for Al Purdy: Saving Al’s A-Frame
by Jean Baird ......................................................... 56
Contributor Bios.......................62

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Contributor Bios:

Lesley Battler lives in Calgary and works in the petrochemical industry.

derek beaulieu is a squid of many inks. He has made up people’s bios in the past, so this comeuppance
has been due.

James Dangerous cooks with hand grenades. Jocelyn Grosse finds it delicious but explosive.

ryan fitzpatrick lives and writes in Calgary where he is co-editor of STEPHEN HARPER: a journal of the
literary arts. His first book, FAKE MATH, was published by Snare Books in the fall of 2007.

Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of
1997. She has taught composition, literature, and writing-related courses at UCSD, California State
University at Stanislaus, and Modesto Junior College.

Born of good middle-class Canadian stock, Jordan Grant got the nausea a few years ago and it has since
consumed him. Now he exists everywhere; you’ve probably met him in several incarnations already

June Hills was raised in the rust belt of the US, and has been engaged in an exploration of her
relationship with the wilderness she has come to love since moving to Alberta. After a career in
communications, June graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
with Distinction. June has set up her studio practice at the Burns Visual Arts Society. When not working in
the studio she coordinates How to Draw a Tree, an ongoing international correspondence mail art project.
www.junehills.com

Sean Howard’s poetry has been featured in magazines including Geist, Other Voices, The Antigonish
Review, Prairie Fire, QWERTY and Contemporary Verse 2. Sean lives in Main-a-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is
adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.

Kevin Kaiser was born and raised in Orange County, California and is currently working towards an MFA
in Creative Writing at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also editing his first novel,
Miel pura de abeja (Pure Honey of the Bee), and continues to write short stories, poems, and other forms
concerning love, death, birth, the environment, apolitical politics, and oneness.

INgjerd jentoft KArlsen is a native Norwegian who spent the past decade living, loving and playing in
the Canadian Rockies. She left her previous career in physiotherapy and brought with her a keen interest
in the body to her art studies at the Alberta College of Art + Design. With an intention to create work
that evokes questions and creates an uplifting experience, INgjerd’s work springs out of observations,
personal memory, lived experience and mythology.

Jake Kennedy’s poems, visuals, and prose pieces have appeared in a number of literary journals.
He teaches at Okanagan College and lives in Kelowna. Currently he is collaborating with his best
friend on a collaborative community novel entitled Death Valley. Please email him curses and wtf’s at
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Paul Margach writes a jazz blog, A Wells or a Gibbon?, at www.wellsorgibbon.blogspot.com

Colin Martin is Colin Martin. He is Filling Station President and currently lives in Montreal.

Debbie.lee Miszaniec is a visual artist working in Calgary. Told as a child that she is a relative of the seventeenth
century master Rembrandt, she cultivated an interest in painting and art history that has carried over to her work. In
2008 Debbie.lee Miszaniec completed her BFA in painting with distinction at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
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rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of over a dozen trade books of poetry, fiction and
non-fiction, his most recent titles include the novella white (2007), the travel book Ottawa: The Unknown
City (2008), the non-fiction titles subverting the lyric: essays (2008) and Alberta dispatch: interviews
& writing from Edmonton (2008) and the poetry collection a compact of words (2008). An editor and
publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), Poetics.ca (with Stephen
Brockwell, poetics.ca) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He recently spent the
2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts
reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

kevin mcpherson eckhoff has bills, bills for stamps, stamps for sending work to places. Some places
reject his work, some don’t. See BookThug. See Coach House circa 2010. Currently he is collaborating
with his best friend on a book of collaborative poetry tentatively titled Glossophobia. Please email him
love songs and lol’s at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Born and raised in Norhern Ireland, Brian Price has been a teacher and academic administrator in the
United States for more than twenty years. Long interested in the craft of observation, of trying to see
what’s there with one’s own eyes, he began making digital photographs in 2003 as a means of exploring
relations between observation and representation.

Joe Sacksteder: Twenty-five years old, I live in a barn in southeast Michigan and work at the Great
Lakes Rabbit Sanctuary. I have a hockey story forthcoming in the sports journal Aethlon. I just finished
directing my first film, and I can be seen in ABC’s The Prince of Motor City, TNT’s Gifted Hands, and Drew
Barrymore’s Whip It!

Brent Schaus piped his way to Calgary from Montréal and Matrix.

G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the
author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz
continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be
ordered.

Koren Scott is an emerging print and installation artist with a BFA in Fine Arts from the Alberta College
of Art + Design. Her current work explores the integrity of memory: ‘what is constructed post-event is
quickly remediated and deteriorates into fallacy or nostalgia, leaving shadowy fragments of truth to fade
or worse to be held in an endless loop disrupting perceptions.’

Simon Trafford is a musician, director, visual artist, and a poet. On the front line of the Canadian hip
hop scene, Simon heads the controversial rap duo, Lexington + Whatevski. And with notches on his belt
in every aspect of music production, including video and promotional art, he has collaborated with many
of North America’s finest avant-garde hip hop artists and has performed in 22 Canadian cities. As well as
dabbling in slam style poetry, Simon is a main contender in King of the Dot, Canada’s national battle rap
league. http://www.myspace.com/olivehour

Paul William Zits is a graduate student at The University of Calgary in the English program and is
currently completing a manuscript under the supervision of Tom Wayman that dramatizes the Consumer
Revolution and London’s commodity culture in the mid-nineteenth century. He has published previously
out of Edmonton, with Spire, the basement and Confluence (Editor’s Choice Award for Poetry), and twice
out of Calgary with nõd.

 

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