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Essays & Reviews by J. S. Porter, Hamilton, Ontario
featured in issues of Dialogue Magazine
How to Build a Book (for Kaizen)
Notes toward Building, and never Finishing, a Little Book on Intimacy, p. 42 in the Summer 2017 Edition, Vol. 30, No. 4
Book Review: of Dennis Lee's Heart Residence: Collected Poems 1967-2017 (Toronto: Anansi, 2017), p. 43 in the Summer 2017 Edition, Vol. 30, No. 4
Animals (for Marshall)
p. 43 in the Spring 2017 Edition, Vol. 30, No. 3
Falling in Love with Paul Cézanne
Book Review of Susan McCaslin's Painter, Poet, Mountain: After
Cézanne, p.18, in Vol. 30, No.2, Winter 2016-17
A Book Review : B.W. Powe’s
“Decoding Dust”
[Seattle, WA: NeoPoiesis Press, June 14, 2016],
p.19 in Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2016-17
Introducing Thomas Merton (1915-68)
p.73 in Vol. 30, No. 1, Autumn 2016
Mottoes
p.29 in Vol. 29, No. 4, Summer 2016
Identity
p.11 in Vol. 29, No. 3, Spring 2016
Book Review: Thoughts
on In the Beginning Was Love:
Contemplative Words of Robert Lax, (Edited with an Introduction by S.T. Georgiou, Springfield,
Illinois: Templegate Publishers, 2015).
p.12 in Vol. 29, No. 3, Spring 2016
Voice - as a pathway to intimacy
p. 42 in Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 2015-16
Joy - a poem
p.43 in Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 2015-16
An Open Letter to the Prime
Minister
p.8 in Vol. 29, No. 1, Autumn 2015
a chapbook, a
micro press, a poem
p.41 in Vol. 29, No. 1, Autumn 2015
p. 31, in the Summer 2015 Edition, Vol. 28, No. 4
A performance artist,
drawing, wood, stone & music
- an exploration of degrees of intimacy,
p. 30, in the Summer 2015 Edition, Vol. 28, No. 4
A lake, a movie, a mountain, a poem
p. 18, in the Spring 2015 Edition, Vol. 28, No. 3
Making Lists: Arnold Lobel, Susan
Sontag, my wife and me
p. 34, in the Winter 2014-15 Edition, Vol. 28, No. 2
Two Playful Performers on the Page:
- John Robert Colombo and Northrop Frye in
The Northrop Frye Quote Book, reviewed by J. S. Porter
p. 33, in the Winter 2014-15 Edition, Vol. 28, No. 2
Apocalypse and Alchemy
- On B.W. Powe’s Marshall
McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2014),
p. 30, in the Autumn 2014 Edition, Vol. 28, No. 1
The Poet & the Philosopher: Dennis Lee & George
Grant,
p. 38, in the Summer 2014 Edition, Vol. 27, No. 4
Why Grant matters
- George Grant and a few haunting sentences,
p. 15, in the Spring 2014 Edition, Vol. 27, No.3
Sarah Hall's Stained Glass
- An Aesthetic and Ecological Marvel
p. 10, in the Winter Edition (2013-14), Vol. 27, No. 2
My friend Susan McCaslin, poet and activist
- Susan's Han Shan Poetry Project
p. 9, in the Autumn 2013 Edition, Vol. 27, No. 1
Shakespeare
"When you meet a great poet, rush out to the garden and drive a stake into the ground..."
p. 35, in Vol. 26, No. 6, May-June 2013
"My Dylan" - about my black, flat-coated retriever...
p.59, in Dialogue, Vol. 28, No. 5, March-April 2013
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