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Regina-raised Cassidy McFadzean is a past finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and The Walrus Poetry Prize. Her previous works ...
If the composition and dissemination of verse is as volatile as anything in the cosmos, the reading of it can also be as ...
In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...
The Ballad of Wallis Island is an excellent new British comedy drama starring Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan. Almost two decades in the making, the film expands on the much-admired short film ...
Submissions are now open for "Verse like Water," a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Country Journal magazine, Central ...
When C.J. Dennis's verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was launched in 1915, it went off“like a packet of ...
Paul Durcan, the Dublin-born poet, died on May 17 at the age of 80. There was no one quite like him. Prolific, popular and a ...
On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...
In an upper room above those streets, the Book of Acts tells us, disciples of Jesus, recently crucified, cowered. Yet, filled with Holy Spirit, they burst onto those streets, sharing the gospel of ...
My grandfather — who used to make me practice sitting still — has always been better at living in the present moment than I ...
Simon Mesa Soto’s Un Poeta (A Poet) is an intense character study of Oscar Restrepo, a poet who believes he never got his due ...
I am happy Ruth is getting the credit she most certainly deserves. There are so many people still around that loved her, and ...