Issue 45: Spring 2019 is here!

Dear Readers, Issue 45: Spring 2019 has finally arrived, and it brings with it an exciting array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for your enjoyment. This issue’s fiction features “Madame Flora’s” by Camilla Grudova and “I WILL NEVER TELL YOU THIS” by Shaelin Bishop, as well as the final short story from the 2018 Thomas Morton Memorial Prize Shortlist: “SIGNPOST” by Zak Jones. In poetry, check out “The In-Between Water” by Adrian De Leon and Oubah Osman, “Ghazal for the New Year” by Isabella Wang, “Stage Directions for the Opening Scene of The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry” by Adam Meisner, “Mount Pleasant” and “Tirage au sort” by Annick MacAskill, “What Are the Architects Doing?” by Nancy Lee, “PULSE” by K.B. Thors, “Plenitude” by Daniel Karasik, “Young cuckoo seeks nest, bring own feathers” and “You forget it in people” by John Emil Vincent, “THE STATUE OF ANNA AKHMATOVA” by Barry Dempster, “Things I’m made of” by Ugonna-Ora Owoh, “Truth” by Gail Jones, and “JODIE FOSTER” by Kit McKeown. In this season’s essay section, Jeremiah Bartram discusses why he’s sick of reading Austen in “OF VICES AND REARS Or Why I’ve Stopped Reading Jane Austen.” In the first interview of this issue, Jennavieve McClelland interviews Paul Herron to discuss Anaïs Nin in “‘Horizontally Piled Clouds’: An Interview with Paul Herron of Sky Blue Press.” Next, read Ben Ladouceur and Onjana Yawnghwe’s postcard exchange in “‘Solution to Forgetting:’ Postcards on Narrative and Poetry.” Finally, Brecken Hancock and Sarah Neville discuss Refuse: CanLit in Ruins in “Staying with the Trouble.” Finally, this issue’s reviews section features Julie McIsaac’s review of I Become a Delight to My Enemies by Sara Peters. And so, The Puritan is happy to bring you its latest. We hope you enjoy this issue. All the best, The Editors