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Online Writings

• Intimate Details, a column for Dialogue Magazine.
• Robert Lax:
  • PDF: Notes on Robert Lax, J.S. Porter - "Robert Lax, like Adam and all the poets before him, walks into the garden and brings articulation to breath. He names the ...Read more."
  • PDF: Robert Lax on Thomas Merton, J.S. Porter. "Harford: Can you comment on the popular conception of Merton? Lax: A lot of (people) leave out the possibility of ... Read more."
  • PDF: Robert Lax: Scratches. Merton Centre.
• Dennis Lee
  • Dennis Lee and the Evergreen Child, J.S. Porter. HA&L magazine, issue 14.1, cover.
  • Dennis Lee speaks about what he is most open to, driven by and hungers for, J.S. Porter, InRetro.org, September 1, 2025
  • Poetry Book Review: Dennis Lee's Heart's Residence, J.S. Porter. HA&L magazine, issue 10.2, cover.
• Thomas Merton
  • PDF: Opening Thomas Merton's Bible, J.S. Porter. Thomas Merton Society, 32-1
  • PDF: Thomas Merton in Las Vegas, J.S. Porter, Thomas Merton Society, 16-3.
• Mark Dickinson
  • On Mark Dickinson's Canadian Primal: Poets, Places and the Music of Meaning, J.S. Porter. HA&L magazine, issue 14.1, cover.
• BW Powe
  • Review: Where Seas and Fables Meet, J.S. Porter. HA&L magazine, issue 8.1, cover.
  • Review: The Charge in the Global Membrane, J.S. Porter, HA&L magazine, issue 8.2, cover.
  • B.W. Powe's Voice, J.S. Porter, New Explorations, Vol. 3, No 2, Fall 2023
• Hemingway
  • Hemingway: A Maker of Small, Fragile Things, J.S. Porter, HA&L magazine, issue 14.1, cover.
• Marshall Soules
  • Street Art - Interview with Marshall Soules, an e-mail presentation by J.S. Porter, Marshall Soules: Urban Wallpaper.
• George Grant
  • Interview with Eugene Combs on George Grant, J.S. Porter, HA&L magazine, issue 6.1, cover.
• Gordon Sheppard
  • "Requiem for a Suicidal Genius" - Literary Review of Canada.
• Margaret Atwood
  • On Margaret Atwood's Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, J.S. Porter, InRetro,
  • Atwood, Light and Dark, J.S. Porter, Globe and Mail, March 23, 2002
  • Atwood Right on Target, J.S. Porter, Globe and Mail, October 7, 2004
• Alberto Manguel
  • Alberto in Storyland, J.S. Porter, Globe and Mail, October 20, 2007
  • Poets as Proseurs, J.S. Porter, Globe and Mail, August 18, 2007
• Lawrence Weschler
  • Only Interconnect..., J.S. Porter, Globe and Mail, February 18, 2006
• Leonard Cohen
  • Catherine Tekakwitha & Beautiful Losers, J.S. Porter, Leonard Cohen Forum.
• Heidegger
  • The Re-Enchantment of the Word, J.S. Porter, JSTOR, No 47, Autumn-Winter 1995.
• Sarah Hall
  • Sarah Hall's Stained Glass: An Aesthetic & Ecological Marvel, J.S. Porter, Dialogue Magazine, Winter 2013-14, Vol. 27, No. 2
  • The Living Glass, J.S. Porter, Sarah Hall Sacred Space
• Emily Dickenson
  • Emily Dickinson At War, J.S. Porter, InRetro, November 1, 2017
• Glenn Gould
  • Glenn Gould as a Model of How to Get Your Work Done, J.S. Porter, InRetro, October 8, 2017
• Online Poems
  • A Found Poem, for John Robert Colombo, J.S. Porter. HA&L magazine, issue 14.1, cover.
  • A Lake, a Movie, a Mountain, a Poem, J.S. Porter, Dialogue Magazine, Spring 2015, Vol. 28, No. 3
  • Two poems in Found Poetry in Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain, Mary Aitkin, The Merton Seasonal, Volume 29.
  • Poem in The God-Word and Thomas Merton by Susan McCaslin (with a poem by J.S. Porter), Renee Knapp, Inanna, March 3, 2020
  • Poem in The Dream of Fewness, Ron Rolheiser, October 27, 2002
  • Words I, J.S. Porter, Canadian Literature, No 110, 1986
  • One Word (for Mark Garbner), J.S. Porter, The New Quarterly, Issue 28, Spring 1988
• Donald Trump
  • Trump, J.S. Porter, New Explorations, Vol 5, No 1, Spring 2025