ryga: a journal of provocations (2009-2019) 

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ISSUE 10: CONTENTS

MIKE WHITE
"Brandon's Nuts Hang Down to the Water" / Story / Nursing Home / Mobile

CHRISTOPHER DEWEESE
Fly / Six Underground / Yellow Ledbetter / Far Behind / Glycerine

JULIA PHILLIPS
Inheritance

KATIE MANNING
The Book of Class / The Book of Eke / The Book of Show / The Book of E / The Book of So

STEPHEN HENIGHAN
Hired Heritage

JENNY YANG CROPP: Not a Bird or a Flower
Usage Error: Deep-seeded / Usage Error: Girl / This is Not an Apology / Usage Error: Broomweed / Usage Error: Translator / Usage Error: Mediocre / Usage Error: Rape / Usage Error: Opaque / Usage Error: Poet / Self-Portrait in a 1970s Gold-Veined Mirror Tile
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ISSUE 9: CONTENTS

KATE KENNEDY
Woodlore / Peninsula / Tucson, or, The Infinitive / "Sekhmet, Who Smites"
The Life Raft

ERIC OLLILA
from Pink Teddy

TRINY FINLAY
from You don't want what I've got

JUDITH POND
from Here, Now

ELLEN KOMBIYIL: avalanche tunnel
Nine Instructions Now Images / Love as Metro Station / Mirror Image of a Stock Market Crash / Ode to My Breasts / How-To as a List of Valuables for Insurance / Translation / Melody for the Sinners
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ISSUE 8: CONTENTS

JESSICA PIAZZA
Bomb / Not About Anything / Woman Shattered / Stalled Out

SHANE NEILSON
The Manifesto of Fervourism

ELISE MARCELLA GODFREY
Follow the Water / Elders, Echo Bay, Great Bear Lake / LaBine, Echo Bay, Great Bear Lake / Women, Hidden Bay, Rabbit Lake / Women, Smoothstone Lake / Women, Clam Lake / Women, Minnow Lake

MICHAEL KENYON
No One But Himself

JOHN LENT
Prague Poem 3 / Prague Poem 6 / Prague Poem 7 / Prague Poem 8

MATTHEW HEITI
Plague
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ISSUE 7: CONTENTS

ANNIE CHRISTAIN
AI Supercomputer as Black Magic Megaritual Amplifier: Sir Paul McCartney’s God-Given Right / Magnetic Fields on the Road to Damascus, a May to December Marriage / The CD Documenting Everything that I’m Saying that Mr. X Gave to Me Was Confiscated by the Police upon My Arrest and Sent Directly to the Ethics Department

R.W. GRAY
Beautifully Useless

APRIL RIPLEY
Wolves / Krakow, 1910-- / Departure

MARTYN BRYANT
The 2014 Canadian Mourning™ Championship Match

LESLIE BOHN
The Vigil Keeper Tries to Explain / The Vigil Keeper Waits with Mary Middleton Rutledge Fogg / The Vigil Keeper and the Preacher John King

JENNIFER WYNNE WEBBER
White Lies
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ISSUE 6: CONTENTS

BEN LADOUCEUR
Masters of the Impossible / At the Bourne / Transaction No. 2 / Shuttle

L.S. BASSEN
The American Wing

KIM GOLDBERG
Detritus / Shortly before the end / Cloud Formations / bulletin

MELISSA KUIPERS
Mourning Wreath

WILLIAM ALTON
Visitors / Walking in the Rain / Will You Sit With Me? / Name / Pottery Shop

HEATHER DAVIDSON
What They Left You With
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ISSUE 5: CONTENTS

TIM BOWLING
In the Old Neighbourhood / Explanation for the Flight of the Great Blue Heron / At the Spawning Grounds / Landlocked / Sperm Whale / Arbutus / Blood Pressure

KURT BACHARD
The Country

RENÉE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR
children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections

JENNIFER LOVEGROVE
Leave the blinds open / The Mist / Somewhere, a Twig Snaps

ERÍN MOURE
Interview with Jake Kennedy and kevin mcpherson eckhoff / Excerpt from from Капуста (Kapusta)

GEORGE M. JOHNSON
Still Life With Nudes
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ISSUE 4: CONTENTS

DEIRDRE DORE
Dumbshow / The Turn / for when you don't have a camera / The kind of people we are / The Chicken Poem / Disparu / Holding the Baby on Harvey / Long Disconsolate Lines About Your Knee Surgery and Sex / November, Woods

RICHARD CARTER 
Moorings

EUGENE ALEXANDER DEY
A Good Dude

SALVATORE DIFALCO
Jerry's Cove / Belted Kingfisher Hunting / Surf Scoter Lift Off / Nine Pin Rock / Secret Lantern / Charlie Brown / Charlie Brown II / Miniature / Not The End of the World / Come Dine With Me / Warming Trends / White Dog in Aspic

VALERY PETROVSKIY
Witness for the Defence

MITCH MIYAGAWA
Carnaval
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ISSUE 3: CONTENTS

SHANE BOOK
Stop / Shaving My Grandfather in His Hospital Bed (1) / The Market / To a Curl of Water / San Fernando, Trinidad, 1954 / My People / Shaving My Grandfather in His Hospital Bed (2)

THEODORE BOHN 
Dusting Down 

MAGGIE CLARK
Syzygy / Words / Lethe / The Return / Ecdysis / Heartache / Threads / Loving the Woman / In the Beginning

SARAH TSIANG
Morse Codes 

KATE KENNEDY
Plateau / The Workshop Years / Mitchell Road / Station Hill / Scruffy / Big Slide / Cactus Mountain / In the Library of Ranges

A.S. PENNE 
Once a Soldier
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ISSUE 2: CONTENTS

ED ALLEN
When Everybody Was Upset

CHRIS HUTCHINSON
Not Unlike

MARCH HUTCHINSON AND LEILA PEACOCK
A Modern(ist) Proposal

VACLAV HAVEL
The Need For Transcendence

SUZANNE BUFFAM, RONA ALTROWS and MEGHAN MARTIN
3 Voices (including Ideal Tree by Suzanne Buffam)

LEE MARACLE
Raven Can Do Anything

How to Induce Sleep

COLIN SNOWSELL
The Fat Man and the Quail

RENEE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR
from thecanadaproject

JUDITH POND
Jazz

SALLY STUBBS
Centurians
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ISSUE 1: CONTENTS

JAKE KENNEDY
Studies

SHERI BENNING
Dollhouse

ROBERT PRIEST
The Sadness of Spacemen

STEPHANIE YORKE
From a Long Poem Set in a Small Town

STEPHEN HENIGHAN
Terms of Surrender

ALEXEI PORVIN
Kneel at the Water

JIM CLIFFE
Prequel

J.R. CARPENTER
Three Stories

PETER DALE SCOTT
For Maylie Scott

MARK RUCKER
Phantom Graphite Drawings

JUDITH POND
Endangered Species

LEN FALKENSTEIN
Doppleganger