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Scofield muttered about his homemade heart tattoo, saying he got it when he was fourteen on a camping trip, but agreed to have one hand photographed after checking with Lauren Kirshner that she'd also had "her hands done."

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In 2009, Scofield will be releasing the following books:

kipocihkân: Poems New and Selected. Gibson's: Nightwood Editions, 2009.
Love Medicine and one Song. Wiarton: Kegedonce Press, 2009.
I Knew Two Metis Women. Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2009.

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Ariel Gordon is the Winnipeg-based author of two recent small press chapbooks and has had poetry published in fine lit mags such as Carousel, PRISM International and Prairie Fire.

Her first collection of poetry, Hump, is forthcoming from Ontario's Palimpsest Press in spring 2010.

When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods taking macro photographs of mushrooms.