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  • Banner image with photo of the late publisher Kirk Howard and text reading In Memoriam:  Dundurn Press Founder  Kirk Howard  1942-2023
    Banner image with photo of the late publisher Kirk Howard and text reading In Memoriam:  Dundurn Press Founder  Kirk Howard  1942-2023
    July 06, 2023

    In Memoriam: Dundurn Press Founder Kirk Howard 1942-2023

    Today Dundurn Press shared that their founder and Publisher Emeritus John Kirk Howard, C.M., passed away on June 30th, 2023. Born December 3, 1942, Howard (known as Kirk to everyone who knew him) was ...

  • Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
    Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference
    June 30, 2022

    Remembering Steven Heighton and the Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference

    One of the jokes I have with myself is that my first exposure to the public world of poetry was so traumatizing that I had no choice but to accommodate what I saw, however subconsciously. Ten years ago, ...

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