Canada 150, or the 150th anniversary of Confederation, is an occasion of both celebration and remembrance. The significance of this anniversary can be complicated to navigate given Canada’s varied history. …
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Poetry
the city on saturday mornings is not fully awake yet not fully recovered from last night’s dancing reckless and loving lonely strangers and taking midnight walks up to casa loma. …
I got a sunburn today, screaming red across the bridge of my nose like molten flesh. I’m glad. You see Mama, I’m not scared of becoming too “dark,” or curdling …
It’s strange watching this woman, my grandmother of the hunched back, chinaware bones and narrowing shoulders, this renegade who can count one more generation she has married off for every …
I Our arid fissured earth implores the blue heavens for drops of rebirth II Abundant river From clear to brown; at last dust The parched land despairs III Erratic weather …
Watch over the ginger boiling in the kitchen, your epiglottal bile, the regurgitating sink, the revolutionary protests of pipes. Free fall into slaloming sleep, navigate the mutilated men and mutinying …
In our latest submission call, we invite you to speak about time and space. Together, they create the universe. And as abstract as the formation may be, we strive for …
I just need a minute to gather my thoughts, re-articulate who I am in the dating game: Ambitious. A lover of rap and food. Fancy but not pretentious. Still down …
The net that presses against your skin, made from thin, steel fibres leaving an imprint only when you push up against it. We have spent most of our lives, unaware …
So this is me here, loving in my kitchen making extra portions, canning jamming, buying too much, returning laden, a strap cutting into my arm cutting, stirring, tasting opening a …