MA|DE collaboration with Christopher Bissonnette (12K/Kranky/Dronarivm recording artist) debuting at THE EX-PURITAN Issue 60 Launch (in Toronto & via Facebook Live) — Feb 24, 6pm!

? Save the date! This coming Friday February 24th from 6-8pm THE EX-PURITAN is launching their hybrid/experimental section (which appear in Issue 60: Winter 2023) and we are thrilled to be a part of both the inaugural iteration of this section and its launch!

We’re happy to be debuting a video/sound/text collaboration with 12K / Kranky / Dronarivm recording artist, Christopher Bissonnette!

Featured multimedia performers include:
MA|DE (in collaboration with Christopher Bissonnette)
Gary Barwin
Khashayar Mohammadi
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

Hosted by the hybrid section’s talented editors:
Rasiqra Revulva & William Dao

You can attend either in person (masked at The Cat’s Eye at 150 Charles St W, Toronto) or virtually via Facebook Live (livestreamed).

Visit the event page for full details

3 New Poems in HOAX

Capital block letter A in black and white with comics speech bubble across the centre with "A A [triangle] A" inside it.

Agonizing dread erupts,
futile. Miscreants press
preview, review, spectate
the twisted wreckage.

We are so excited to have 5 excerpts from our manuscript-in-progress, ALPHABETICALS, published on HOAX. This series reflects a new poetic form we are developing called an ‘alphabetical.’ More constrained than the abecedarian form, the alphabetical requires that each word in the poem be in alphabetical order.

Read & see all 5 poems with accompanying images on HOAX.


This is the first time work from this project has appeared online. Previously, these poems had only appeared in our chapbook A BARELY CONCEALED DESIGN (Puddles of Sky Press, 2020).