James Pollock is the author of Sailing to Babylon, which was a finalist in Canada for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, and, in the United States, runner-up for the Posner Poetry Book Award and winner of an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association; and […]
James Pollock
James Pollock: Spectacles
Arms folded on the desk. They’re skeptical, aloof. They have their own way of seeing things that is slightly off, not magical exactly, but somehow fascinating in the way they bend the world, if not to their will, at least away from the world’s will, if the world may be said to have one: true […]
James Pollock: Ceiling Fan
Seen from below, a white five-petal flower; in fact, an artist whose medium is air, who combs it with these pale palette knives hour on hour, stirring the room, and taking care to keep this slow whirlpool in circulation. It gives you the chills, like an erotic spouse. If you increase the speed of its […]
Episode 82: “1-4-3”
Be warned. We love the writers who submit to PBQ, slushies. We love doing this podcast. And we love you; we love that you listen to us discuss and deliberate. In short, slushies, as Mister Rogers would say: “1-4-3.” One. Four. Three. (I. L-o-v-e. Y-o-u). (Get it?!). We do. It’s hopeless. We’re hooked. We discuss […]