MEDIA

PODCASTS

ffiles
Interview with Ashley Obscura

Lo Fi Lit
Interview with Ashley Obscura

XX Files Radio
Museum of Symmetry with Paloma Dawkins
& Ashley Obscura

The Biblio File
Ashley Obscura On Metatron, Publishing and the Millenial Mind

Profound Experience of Poetry [Video]
Interview with Ashley Obscura

Playd8 [Video]
On Playing, the Imagination and Other Realms

PROFILES + INTERVIEWS

The Pit - Interview
COMING SOON

Forget the Box
A Decade of Literary Community

“[Ashley’s] perspective is inspiring for artists who often navigate the scene alone, and struggle to establish their names in such a competitive environment.

Peach Mag
I Can't Not Do This: Heart to Heart with Ashley Obscura of Metatron Press

“After years … my respect for Obscura has extended from admiration of her poetry and artistic vision to a reverence for her openness to change, willingness to be vulnerable and transparent with her community, and eagerness to take risks and forge new ways of doing things—to give us new examples of how things can be done.”

Open Book
An Interview with Ashley Obscura

“What place does the slow-moving technology of love have in our world?”

“Plainspoken but never simplistic, the writing of Ashley Obscura and her press, Metatron, is emblematic of many of the young voices rising up all over poetry at the moment. These voices don’t have time no not say what they mean; they’re too busy trying to live. This is a generation and an esthetic that cannot afford to be misunderstood, so must speak as clear as possible.”

Magazine Spirale
Montréal cosmique

”One of the best poets living in Quebec today.”

Savoir Care
Ashley Obscura’s Ecstatic Wavelengths

Michigan Quarterly Review
Ambient Technology: An Interview with Ashley Obscura

”[Obscura’s] work is largely about love, both the macro and micro of its manifestation, and what it means to be heartbroken by this world.”

Witch Craft Mag
Art Happens - An Interview with Ashley Obscura

Flare Magazine
#HowIMadeIt - Ashley Obscura

Fanzine
Space in Love with Space - An Interview with Ashley Obscura

“Since we have so many different mediums at our disposal, the internet fosters artistic versatility & multimedia experimentation. Many writers active online do not just write–they explore image, recorded sound, & video.

Ashley Obscura is exactly this kind of juggler. Among other projects, she writes cosmic tweets, visually stimulating poetry, & makes ambient sound art that features her entrancing spoken word. Her work bends toward something like sexy metaphysics, pop mysticism.”

MENTIONS

The Gazette
Montreal's diversity is a gift, not a problem

“While attending the second edition of Yolk Literary Journal’s Oktoberfest recently — under the shadows of the iconic Canada Malting silos in St-Henri — I listened transfixed as Metatron Press founder Ashley Obscura delivered a moving speech about doggedly pursuing a life in the arts.

A self-proclaimed ‘Mexican-Canadian from the Prairies’ and one of Quebec’s most acclaimed young poets, Obscura told an audience of mostly emerging young writers that community is reciprocity: “If you crave being seen, you must see.”

Le Devoir
The great conflagration of women's poetry

“This is poetry: it is something that completely sets you on fire and tells you: ‘This is how it is possible to be in the world and to move forward in the world.’” (Translated from French)

Puritan Magazine
What We’ve Liked This Year: An End of Year List ”

“There’s an ardency and honesty to [Obscura’s] poems that reminds me of Pablo Neruda’s 100 Love Sonnets.”

Nylon Magazine
Who are the girls in Latin American literature?

Playground Mag
Internet, love and viscera: This is the literature of the future Made in Canada