Charcuterie strives to provide a forum for experimental writing and informed polemics without pedantry. It assembles a polyphony of inquiry and documents the messy landscape of opinion and critique that unravels in close proximity to where we work, live and make art in Vancouver.
MY ARGUMENT IS WRONG, BUT
Eli Zibin on why good and bad poetry is a fallacy
There are no poems which “fail”, and when they do what we conceive to be as “failing”, they are only more interesting for partly exposing today’s aesthetic and linguistic slant.
NO STUDIO, NO PRIVILEGE
Jacobo Zambrano on Spare Room and other independent project spaces
For the course of 1 year, Spare Room has hosted 6 projects, numerous podcasts, a film room and an audio room and many undocumented conversations about what collective consciousness is and how does one develop it in our community.
HOW TO TAME A FLY
Jacquelyn Ross on flies, space travel and Jacquelyn Kiyomi Gordon
I’m googling “How to Tame a Fly” now for inspiration, and am briefly transfixed by a 55-second YouTube clip of a man gently prodding a black fly with the point of a chopping knife. The fly doesn’t budge, too busy cleaning itself.
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