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  • On Shooting Stars and Poetry as Fuel
    On Shooting Stars and Poetry as Fuel
    September 01, 2022

    On Shooting Stars and Poetry as Fuel

    To live at all is to grieve;but, once, to have it all at onceis to see a shooting star: shooting starshooting star.Arthur Sze (From Shooting Star) I read a poem every morning. Not because I have a pile ...

  • Excerpt: Merilyn Simonds Explores the Spectacular Life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a Woman Ahead of Her Time, in a Meditative New Biography
    Excerpt: Merilyn Simonds Explores the Spectacular Life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a Woman Ahead of Her Time, in a Meditative New Biography
    June 01, 2022

    Excerpt: Merilyn Simonds Explores the Spectacular Life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a Woman Ahead of Her Time, in a Meditative New Biography

    There are some lives that are so fantastical, so packed with passion and strange turns and reinventions, that they are hard to summarize. Such is the life of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, a Swedish aristocrat ...

  • Celebrate Latin American Heritage Month by Entering to Win Great Kids' Books from Groundwood Books
    Celebrate Latin American Heritage Month by Entering to Win Great Kids' Books from Groundwood Books
    October 04, 2021

    Celebrate Latin American Heritage Month by Entering to Win Great Kids' Books from Groundwood Books

    October is Latin American Heritage Month in Canada and we're excited to celebrate the wealth of great literature by Latin American writers, courtesy of Groundwood Books. Just in time for cozy reading ...

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