Sina Queyras • a bibliography Eli Cherney
Sina Queyras: A Bibliography By Eli Cherney Biography Sina Queyras (b. 1963) is a Canadian poet, editor, teacher, and blogger. She was raised in British Columbia and has lived in many cities across Canada and the United States, including Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, and Calgary. She currently resides in Montreal with her partner and their two children. She attended Malaspina College, the University of Victoria, and the University of British Columbia, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991. She also received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Concordia University in 1995. Queyras currently teaches creative writing at Concordia University, and has also taught at Rutgers University and Haverford College. From 2007–2008, she was the Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, and she has held artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center in 2003 and Banff Centre for the Arts in 2006. She was co-curator of Belladonna*, a women’s reading series in New York, from 2005–2007. In 2005, she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, the first anthology of Canadian poetry published by an American press. She has published several books, including poetry collections Lemon Hound (2006), Expressway (2009), and MxT (2014), and Autobiography of Childhood (2011), a novel. Her most recent book of poetry, My Ariel, engages with Sylvia Plath’s well-known work Ariel. It was published by Coach House Books in September 2017. Many of her works have been nominated for or received various awards: Lemon Hound won a Lambda Literary Award (2007) and the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry (2008); Expressway was shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2009); Autobiography of Childhood was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award (2011); MxT was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award (2014) and won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (2014), the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry (2015), and the ReLit Award for Poetry (2016). Her poem “Like a Jet” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014.
Queyras is perhaps most well-known for her online presence, especially on her blog, Lemon Hound, which began in 2005. In 2009, BookThug published a selection of posts from the first four years of the blog in a book titled Unleashed. On the back of the book, Queyras states that Lemon Hound began as an experiment in blogging. An experiment begun for many reasons—a way for an expat to keep in touch with fellow Canadian writers and artists, a way to come to terms with the increasing relevance of the Internet in literary lives, and a way to figure out why, after decades of gains, women writers are still grossly under-represented in critical dialogues.1 In 2012, Queyras ended the original, single-author blog at lemonhound.blogspot.ca, and replaced it with the new, multi-author site lemonhound.com. She also runs a personal website, sinaqueyras.com. She has written for the Poetry Foundation blog Harriet, and has been published in many journals and across the Internet.
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Sina Queyras, Unleashed, (Toronto: BookThug, 2009).
Statement of Aesthetics Sina Queyras is a poet, first and foremost, although she has written prose as well. Her poetry and her prose appear to be quite similar, however. Much of her work is composed of short, gasping sentences, combined with long, rhythmic ones, creating a sense of motion throughout her writing. Her poems often look like prose but read like poetry—while some follow more conventional forms, many of them are single paragraphs with no line breaks, consisting of sentences that are “full of rhythm and motion and life.”2 In a blog post from July 16, 2005, Queyras discusses the difference between poetry and prose, and her resistance of the constant need to find it. She says, “I’m always interested in finding the edge of whatever genre I’m engaged in at the moment, whether it’s a script or a poem. To my mind there is a wide range of writing within each genre, and then a range in between those ranges...”3 Her work certainly demonstrates this search for the in between. Many of her pieces have been considered feminist, political, and provocative, although she also writes of loss, grief, and memory in heartwrenching detail. She often uses concrete images that can be seen in the mind but also felt. She is greatly inspired by women such as Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein.
2 Patty Osborne, “Random Acts of Poetry 5: ‘Tummy-flat’ by Sina Queyras,” Geist, http://www.geist.com/blogs/pattyo/random-acts-poetry-5-sina-queyras/. 3 Sina Queyras, “Difference between Poetry and Prose,” Lemon Hound, https:// lemonhound.com/2005/07/16/difference-between-poetry-and-prose/.
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Books by Sina Queyras Chapbooks by Sina Queyras Poetry published in anthologies and collections Poetry and prose published in periodicals Poetry and prose published online Essays by Sina Queyras Editing by Sina Queyras Reviews by Sina Queyras Readings by Sina Queyras Interviews with Sina Queyras Reviews of Sina Queyras’ work Miscellaneous
Bibliography A. Books by Sina Queyras My Ariel. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2017. MxT. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2014. Autobiography of Childhood. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2011. Expressway. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009. Unleashed. Toronto: BookThug, 2009. Lemon Hound. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006. Teethmarks. Gibsons, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2004. Slip. Toronto: ECW Press, 2001. B. Chapbooks by Sina Queyras Nineteen Short Stories by Samuel Beckett. Calgary: No press, 2008. Life, Still and Otherwise. Victoria: Greenboathouse Books, 2005. C. Poetry published in anthologies and collections “Like a Jet.” In The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014, edited by Sonnet L’Abbé, Molly Peacock, and Anita Lahey, 78–82. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2014. “Like a Jet.” In The Pushcart Prize XXXIX: The Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson and Pushcart Prize Editors. New York: Pushcart Press, 2014. Thirteen poems. In Prismatic Poetics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics, edited by Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, 329–342. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009.
D. Poetry and prose published in periodicals “The Applicant.” “Stings.” The Malahat Review 198 (Spring 2017). “The Couriers.” “Cut.” Poetry, November 2015. “Dear Ferron.” Literary Review of Canada, April 2005. “Elegy for My Father’s Labour.” CV2 37, no. 3 (Winter 2015). “Elegy for Photographs Not Taken.” Geist 92 (Spring 2014). Excerpt from draft of Autobiography of Childhood. Translated by Florence Trocmé. Siecle 21, no. 9 (Fall/Winter 2006). “Five Stories, Nine Selves.” Geist 72 (Spring 2009). “from Euphoria.” Poetry, December 2010. “Her Dreams of the Expressway.” The Malahat Review 165 (Winter 2008). “‘In the night, suddenly’—a sensual five poem sequence.” The Malahat Review 131 (Summer 2000). “The Jailor.” The Walrus, January/February 2016. “Like a Jet.” The Malahat Review 184 (Fall 2013). “Sylvia Plath’s Elegy for Sylvia Plath.” “The Unique Thoughts of Otherhood.” Poetry, January 2014. “Thalidomide.” “The Rabbit Catcher.” The Malahat Review 192 (Fall 2015). “Tightrope.” Poetry, Spring 2013. Two poems. The Malahat Review 145 (Winter 2003). E. Poetry and prose published online “Death & Co.” The Awl, March 3, 2016. https://www.theawl.com/2016/03/a-poem-by-sina-queyras-2/.
“Descendent of Sappho, a Story with a Modicum of Truth.” Joyland Magazine, July 7, 2011. http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/montreal/descendent -sappho-story-modicum-truth. “Edge Effect.” The Goose 7 (Spring 2010). http://www.alecc.ca/uploads/goose/THE__GOOSE_7 _Spring_2010.pdf. “A Lilac Begins to Leaf.” The Walrus, December 12, 2004. https://thewalrus.ca/2005-01-poetry-2/. “Little Fugue.” The Awl, October 1, 2015. https://www.theawl.com/2015/10/a-poem-by-sina-queyras/. “National Poetry Month Day 19: ‘The Sturdiness’ by Sina Queyras.” The Rumpus, April 19, 2013. http://therumpus.net/2013/04/national-poetry-month-day-18 -the-sturdiness-by-sina-queyras/. “Put Down That TV Tray.” Poets.org, 2014. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/put-down-tv-tray. “A Secret.” Berfrois, December 6, 2016. http://www.berfrois.com/2016/12/secret-sina-queyras/. “With Or Without Rivets.” “Moments Ripe As Cherries.” how2 journal 2, no. 2 (Spring 2004). https://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive /online_archive/v2_2_2004/current/new_writing/queyras.htm. F. Essays by Sina Queyras “About Surface: Lisa Robertson’s Poetics of Elegance.” In Eleven More Contemporary Women Writers in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America, edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012. “Lyric Conceptualism: A Manifesto.” In Toward. Some. Air: Remarks on Poetics of Mad Affect, Militancy, Feminism, Demotic Rhythms, Emptying, Intervention, Reluctance, Indigeneity, Immediacy, Lyric Conceptualism, Commons, Pastoral Margins, Desire, Ambivalence, Disability, The Digital, and Other Practices, edited by Amy De’Ath and Fred Wah. Banff Centre Press, 2015.
“Public Poet, Private Life: 20 Riffs on the Dream of a Communal Self.” In Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, edited by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn, 27–42. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. “Sina Queyras: How Sylvia Plath offers a way to see beauty in tragic circumstances.” Quill and Quire, October 10, 2017. https://quillandquire.com/omni/sina-queyras-how-sylvia-plath -offers-a-way-to-see-beauty-in-tragic-circumstances/. G. Editing by Sina Queyras Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets. New York: Persea Books, 2005. “Feature: Canadian Strange.” Drunken Boat 8, Spring 2006. http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/canadianstrange.html. H. Reviews by Sina Queyras “If it walks like apocalypse: Dennis Lee’s testament.” Harriet (blog), Poetry Foundation, April 19, 2012. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/if-it-walks -like-apocalypse-dennis-lees-testament. “Lines Composed Indoors While Contemplating the Weather.” how2 journal 2, no. 3 (Spring 2005). https://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive /online_archive/v2_3_2005/current/alerts/queyras.htm. “On Lisa Robertson’s Nilling.” Harriet (blog), Poetry Foundation, April 26, 2012. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/on-lisa -robertsons-nilling. “Sapere Aude: On ‘3 Summers’ and the Poetry of Lisa Robertson.” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2, 2017. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sapere-aude-on-3-summers -and-the-poetry-of-lisa-robertson/.
I. Readings by Sina Queyras “A River of Poetry.” YouTube video, 1:08:42. Posted by “Concordia University,” December 8, 2010. https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=so4i7ny0uXM. “Sina Queyras at Scream.” YouTube video, 1:31. Posted by “Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl,” August 16, 2008. https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=lBqs7QIMLSY. “Sina Queyras at the Scream.” YouTube video, 3:01. Posted by “Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl,” August 16, 2008. https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=_cinnfT6rwo. “Sina Queyras reading from MxT – April 26th 2014.” Vimeo video, 15:44. Posted by “Ottawa Intl Writers Festival,” October 9, 2014. https://vimeo.com/108516988. “Sina Queyras reads an excerpt from Expressway at the 49th Parallel reading.” YouTube video, 2:26. Posted by “Tim Kahl,” February 28, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exB4dfIkjXk. “Sina Queyras.” YouTube video, 3:09. Posted by “PARLplpo,” June 5, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDyNnixcU0. “Tree Reading Series Featured Reader 23 Mar 10 – Sina Queyras.” YouTube video, 41:57. Posted by “Tree Reading Series,” July 10, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbaYRQyqM0. J. Interviews with Sina Queyras “Bookends: Episode 10 – Childhood Grief Fiction.” YouTube video, 13:44. Posted by “Bookends TV,” November 11, 2011. https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxjMHPMCFOA. Eso, David. “A Reason to Disturb the Gods: David Eso in Conversation with Sina Queyras.” The Malahat Review. http://malahatreview.ca/interviews/queyras_interview.html. Keeler, Emily M. “Sina Queyras on Books and Bubbles.” Hazlitt: Shelf Esteem, June 18, 2013. https://hazlitt.net/blog/sina-queyras-books-and-bubbles.
“An Interview with Sina Queyras, Founder of Lemon Hound.” CWILA, June 11, 2012. https://cwila.com/an-interview-with-sina-queyras/. MacDonald, Tanis. “Trajectory & Trace: An Interview with Sina Queyras.” CV2 37, no. 3 (Winter 2015). McGillis, Ian. “Sina Queyras wins risky game of engagement with Sylvia Plath’s Ariel.” Montreal Gazette, December 8, 2017. http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/sina-queyras -wins-risky-game-of-engagement-with-sylvia-plaths-ariel. Milne, Heather. “Interview.” In Prismatic Poetics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics, edited by Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, 316–328. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009. “Poetry Cabaret with Adam Sol, Sina Queyras and Rob Winger – April 26 2014.” Vimeo video, 9:15. Posted by “Ottawa Intl Writers Festival,” September 25, 2014. https://vimeo.com/107180339. Poetry Editors. “Evidence of Love.” Poetry Foundation, December 1, 2010. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/ articles/69624/evidence-of-love. Silva, Celina. “Eating (Poems) Like Air: Celina Silva in Conversation with Sina Queyras.” The Malahat Review, 2017. http://malahatreview.ca/interviews/queyras_interview2.html. “Silver Car Sessions 9 (Queyras).” YouTube video, 2:30. Posted by “BeguilingAcronym,” February 11, 2011. https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=kSzrtYT-qw4. Simonds, Sandra. “Women Who Write Poetry Criticism.” Best American Poetry (blog), August 14, 2012. http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american _poetry/2012/08/women-who-write-poetry-criticism-roundtable .html. “Sina Queyras: MxT.” Interview by Sonali Karnick. All in a Weekend Montreal, podcast audio, December 18, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca /books/my-ariel-1.4248167. “Sina Queyras, Poetry and Fiction.” YouTube video, 3:31. Posted by “terbyr48,” August 30, 2011. https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=kXJYYx0c8Sg.
K. Reviews of Sina Queyras’ work Callanan, Mark. “Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras.” Review of Barking and Biting, edited by Erin Wunker, Quill and Quire. https://quillandquire.com/review/barking-and-biting-the-poetry -of-sina-queyras/. Callanan, Mark. “Expressway.” Quill and Quire. https://quillandquire.com/review/expressway/. Enszer, Julie R. “MxT by Sina Queyras.” The Rumpus, April 16, 2014. http://therumpus.net/2014/04/m-x-t-by-sina-queyras/. —, “‘Expressway’ and ‘Unleashed’ by Sina Queyras.” Lambda Literary, June 10, 2010. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/poetry/06/10 /expressway-and-unleashed-by-sina-queyras/. Franz, Paul. “Poetry Review by Paul Franz.” Review of MxT, by Sina Queyras, The Malahat Review 187 (Summer 2014): 93–95. Hazelton, Rebecca. “Warlords Are Not the Only Tyrants.” Review of MxT, by Sina Queyras, Poetry, June 2015. McFarland, Erin. “NEW! Review of Sina Queyras.” Review of Lemon Hound, by Sina Queyras. Verse, May 7, 2007. http://versemag.blogspot.ca/2007/05/new-review-of-sina -queryas.html. Medley, Mark. “Sina Queyras: The Poet Who Will Say Anything.” Review of MxT, by Sina Queyras, National Post, May 6, 2014. http://nationalpost.com/afterword/sina-queyras-the-poet-who -will-say-anything. Mullin, Michaela. “MxT by Sina Queyras.” Nomadic Press, October 20, 2014. https://www.nomadicpress.org/reviews/mxt. Syms, Shawn. “Book Review: Autobiography of Childhood, by Sina Queyras.” National Post, December 23, 2011. http://nationalpost.com/afterword/book-review-autobiography -of-childhood-by-sina-queyras.
L. Miscellaneous mcpherson eckhoff, kevin. “Seer Eee!—Sina Queyras in Conversation with Siri.” Our Teeth (blog), November 22, 2016, https://ourteeth .wordpress.com/2016/11/22/seer-eee-sina-queyras-in -conversation-with-siri/. Wunker, Erin, ed. Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras. Laurier Poetry Series. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016. Queyras, Sina. Afterword to Mauve Desert, by Nicole Brossard. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006. —. “Someone from the hollow.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 1995. —. “The Outing.” Play. Toronto: SummerWorks Theatre Festival, 1996.
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