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    October 11, 2017

    The Writer in the World: Love, Write, Resist, Heal, Part One with Alicia Elliot

    A Conversation With Alicia Elliot: Part OneCanisia Lubrin: Many writers over time have expressed the sentiment that the writer, in order to write, is always at odds with their society. This appears, ...

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    October 06, 2017

    The Writer in the World: Defiance, Imagination and the Future with Kaie Kellough

    A Conversation with Kaie KelloughCanisia Lubrin: Many writers over time have expressed the sentiment that the writer, in order to write, is always at odds with their society. I’m keen for your insights ...

  • BIO: Canisia Lubrin is a writer who has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction and criticism in Arc Poetry Magazine, Room Magazine, The Puritan, The Globe & Mail and others. She serves on the editorial board of the Humber Literary Review and as an advisor to Open Book Ontario. Lubrin holds a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Guelph and teaches English at Humber College. She was born in St. Lucia and lives in Whitby, Ontario. | Author Photo by Anna Keenan
    BIO: Canisia Lubrin is a writer who has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction and criticism in Arc Poetry Magazine, Room Magazine, The Puritan, The Globe & Mail and others. She serves on the editorial board of the Humber Literary Review and as an advisor to Open Book Ontario. Lubrin holds a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Guelph and teaches English at Humber College. She was born in St. Lucia and lives in Whitby, Ontario. | Author Photo by Anna Keenan
    October 03, 2017

    The Writer in the World: Introduction

     The reader became the book; and summer night was like the conscious being of the book— Wallace StevensI became a book a long time ago. Or perhaps I am possessed by the memory of the experience of ...

  • October writer-in-residence Canisia Lubrin on Poetry's Vast Possibility, Books She's Loved, and Not Getting Writer's Block
    October writer-in-residence Canisia Lubrin on Poetry's Vast Possibility, Books She's Loved, and Not Getting Writer's Block
    September 28, 2017

    October writer-in-residence Canisia Lubrin on Poetry's Vast Possibility, Books She's Loved, and Not Getting Writer's Block

    Poet Canisia Lubrin's much buzzed about debut Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn) is a powerhouse of a collection. Lubrin is endlessly creative in pulling from science, pop culture, news stories, and ...

  • Publishing the Unpublished
    Publishing the Unpublished
    August 21, 2017

    Publishing the Unpublished

    A closer look at an instigating moment in Canadian booksThe evening of June 22, Harbourfront Centre hosted a special International Festival of Authors event. Though the series is best known for presenting ...

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