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Allan Cho

Writers on Writers

by Allan Cho

Iranian-Canadian multi-genre author Hollay Ghadery interviews award-winning writer Tracy Wai de Boer about her mesmerizing new poetry collection Nostos (Palimpsest Press, 2025).  Taking its title from Ancient Greek, Tracy Wai …

Writers on Writers

by Allan Cho

Teri Vlassopoulos’s highly-anticipated novel Living Expenses (Invisible Publishing, 2025)  offers a timely tale of reproductive health in an age of both technological and geographical distance. In this interview, award-winning Iranian-Canadian …

Century Egg

by Allan Cho

They told me it was a thousand years old. I believed them. I believed in things that lasted — in black eggs rolled in ash, in salt and secrets, in …

Writers on Writers

by Allan Cho

Authors Rachel Phan (Restaurant Kid, a memoir) and Su Chang (The Immortal Woman, a novel) recently interviewed each other about their new releases. Rachel was three years old when her …

Paper(cuts)

by Allan Cho

Those who came before me Stood squarely in exclusion The ones who made it Before the gates closed Made innumerable sacrifices To try to belong I stand outside of exclusion, …

We Will Not Follow

by Allan Cho

You can sign away my dignity underneath the bleeding crown of your pen, Brand me with a dominion certificate, like a choker on a dog, Mark my existence as nothing …

Transplant Life

by Allan Cho

Monthly remittances cut from a swath of trees wash up across the ocean a source of cheap labour from a sawmill tears and sawdust fell by Gung Gung seedlings of …

DOMINION OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION CHINESE IMMIGRATION SERVICE No.….…….. ……………This is to certify that……………………………………………………………………………………………., whose photograph is attached hereto, has registered as required by Section 18 of …

There was…… something…….. about Dominion Day.…… July ……….. …… . first, …… 1923. But then there was also knowing that I’d never see them again. Here are two things that …

míng

by Allan Cho

míng are young tea leaves softened in the pacific is the ocean engraved on worn bodies of migrants even the birds and the insects of a new place míng, but …

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