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June 25, 2018
Mentors & Allies 3: Jónína Kirton
Everything happens for a reason. A person enters your life at a specific time, and specific place for a reason. When I met Jónína Kirton, her energy wrapped my body like a hug I had been so desperately ...
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October 04, 2018Guernica Editions Celebrates 40 Years of Literary Innovation with New Events, Imprint & Prize
Guernica Editions is one of Canada's oldest, most prestigious independent publishing houses, having steadily published literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for a whopping four decades. Their apt ...
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May 15, 2019Have You Hugged Your Google Sheets Lately? How Spreadsheets Helped Me Create Space for My Trauma
Coffee, walking your dog, getting ready for work, breakfast, more coffee, what you missed on Twitter while you were asleep, what fires to fight on Twitter, what fires to diffuse on Twitter, getting more ...
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February 24, 2019Poetry School: Getting specific with Amiri Baraka
Writing is reading, teaching is learning. As I said in my invitation for readers to join me this month-long online Poetry School, I expected to benefit the most from these researches into the craft and ...
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March 21, 2019Writer at Work: A Book Is A Community
Yesterday, my first book of poems, Port of Being, was shortlisted for the 2019 BC and Yukon Book Prizes (BCBP), for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. I expected to feel happy but I feel disbelief. The ...
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June 27, 2019On Hanging Laundry
I have an obsession with laundry hung on lines. The image literally stops me in my tracks. There’s so much thought put into the way the sleeves of shirts are pinned just close enough to the hem of a ...
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March 29, 2019Edward Carson, Our Poetry Month 2019 writer-in-residence, Talks about the Power of Titles
April is National Poetry Month and we are so excited to celebrate all things poetry here at Open Book. And of course part of that celebration means finding a fantastic poet to come on board as our April ...
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November 04, 2019"I Meet Expectations Now and Am Lost in the Trees" Read an Excerpt from Nolan Natasha's New Poetry Collection, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?
Issues of identity and history are tackled in Nolan Natasha's new collection of poetry, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? (Invisible Publishing), which explores gender, visibility and human connection ...
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February 13, 2020The Lucky Seven Interview: Michael Coren Talks Religion and Inclusivity In His New Book
Michael Coren has been many things throughout his long and fascinating career: an award-winning television and radio host, a regular columnist for The Toronto Star, and a prolific author with sixteen ...
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April 06, 2020Love Letter to a Stranger in Saint Petersburg
I’ve been thinking since my last post about how to write a communal poetics while in isolation, while I can’t reach out and physically connect with the poetry community that’s been so dear to me ...
