MICHELINE MAYLOR FEATURES KIT DOBSON Dr. Kit Dobson is an extraordinary professor and essayist at the University of Calgary. I call him extraordinary because he hasn’t let the grind of […]

Styx and Stones I have a secret wilderness I keep inside, tight as spider-eggs tucked in for the winter and waiting to be far flung, strung, then tamped tight as […]

Susan Browne Features Chelsea Harlan Recently, I’ve fallen in love with the work of American poet Chelsea Harlan, currently living and working as a librarian in upstate New York. Her […]

    Bonanza Amanda shows me my bones, A picture of my spine, ghost-like, Snake-like, like it could rattle. I say, Amanda, it looks crooked, why Is that? She shrugs, […]

Pete Sillanpaa Never Loved the Moon Aino died first and Pete lost heart. Spent his last years at the Finnish rest home in South Vancouver. The farm by Punch Creek: […]

Katy They say I mope too much but really I’m loudly dancing. I eat paper. It’s good for my bones. I play the piano pedal. I dance, I am never […]

from Reasons for Staying The October leaves coming down, as if called. Morning fog through the wildrye beyond the train tracks. A cigarette. A good sweater. On the sagging porch. While the […]

#807 the snow fell light white flakes melting on contact fading away like old stories after dawn the country twang of heartache and loss white noise background as I listened […]

My Wild Body happiness of the world came to me again. My body effervesces, I think with my body which effervesces. -Anna Swir, trans. Czeslaw Milosz &  Leonard Nathan At […]

POSTSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 14th, 2022 The day you are cremated, a girl modelling a black hoodie like the one I’ve chosen for you to wear, lights up my Facebook page: I […]