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February 27, 2023underpass poems
These poems come from my back pocket.*In the interest of maintaining the formatting of the poems they are linked here as a viewable pdf and visible below as an image.
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February 28, 2023it's unfinished
Right now I don’t know what I want: it moves, it changes. As a teenager, when I wrote to myself it was always in second person. I thought of it like that: writing to myself as if writing a letter. ...
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March 02, 2023"Anyone Who Writes Fiction is a Kind of Magician" Barry Jonsberg on His Writing Process & New Climate Disaster Novel
For twins Ashleigh and Aiden, the world is good. They've always been completely in sync and to them, life seems sunny and happy. But everything changes when Aiden starts behaving strangely after an accident ...
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March 03, 2023Excerpt from Harvesting Freedom, a Firsthand Account of What It's Really Like to Be a Migrant Worker in Canada
Growing up in the rural Mabouya Valley in St. Lucia, Gabriel Allahdua, "never heard anything bad or sad about Canada". When he made the difficult decision as an adult to participate in the Canada-St. ...
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March 07, 2023Artist & Poet Matthew Hollett on Optic Nerve, His Witty, Poetic Love Letter to the Act of Looking
What doing writing and photography have in common? Certainly both can be records, both necessarily show the creator's perspective – and both can crack open new worlds, crystallized stories, or spectacular ...
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March 08, 2023Read an Excerpt from ryan fitzpatrick's Urgent Climate Poetry Collection, Sunny Ways
One sure sign of spring in Canada is the new crop of poetry books that welcome the lengthening days and melting snow. One fierce and urgent collection making waves in the spring 2023 line up is ryan ...
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March 09, 2023Artist & Poet Amy Ching-Yan Lam on Stories, Healing, and a Cheese-Based Universe
Stories are more than simply tales we tell ourselves and each other. They are lessons, conversations, cultural landscapes both collective and deeply personal – and in celebrated multi-discipline artist Amy ...
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March 13, 2023“Guernica Stands With You" Anna Van Valkenburg on Guernica/PEN International's New Residency for Writers at Risk
In early 2023, Guernica Editions, together with PEN International, launched The Guernica/PEN International Writers' Residency, a unique virtual residency aimed at supporting writers in exile, refugee ...
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!["We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley](/var/site/storage/images/news/we-approach-the-mystery-of-art-in-bafflement-not-in-sureness-a-conversation-with-award-winning-poet-kate-cayley/113580-1-eng-CA/We-Approach-the-Mystery-of-Art-in-Bafflement-Not-in-Sureness-A-Conversation-with-Award-Winning-Poet-Kate-Cayley_blog_post_wide.jpg "\"We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness\": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley")
!["We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley](/var/site/storage/images/news/we-approach-the-mystery-of-art-in-bafflement-not-in-sureness-a-conversation-with-award-winning-poet-kate-cayley/113580-1-eng-CA/We-Approach-the-Mystery-of-Art-in-Bafflement-Not-in-Sureness-A-Conversation-with-Award-Winning-Poet-Kate-Cayley_blog_post.jpg "\"We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness\": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley")
March 14, 2023"We Approach the Mystery [of Art] in Bafflement... Not in Sureness": A Conversation with Award-Winning Poet Kate Cayley
Decorated multi-genre writer Kate Cayley's new poetry collection, Lent (forthcoming from Book*hug Press) is one of her most exciting books yet, and that is saying something, given that her previous ...
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March 02, 2023Safe Spaces Within The Margins
*Content Warning: brief mention of sexual assault, addiction and self harm*Nearly six months after I became the victim of a violent sexual assault in September 2017, I sat on the back porch of our rental ...
