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Late Breaking

By K.D. Miller

K.D. Miller’s new volume of linked stories unfolds in dialogue with the work of the late painter Alex Colville. Each story is preceded by a reproduction of one of Colville’s spare, almost sculptural renderings of ... Read More »

October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Paradise Lost

By Erin Shields

Playwright Erin Shields’s dramatic adaptation of Paradise Lost – commissioned by the Stratford Festival for a 2018 production in their Studio Theatre – explores with verve and a modern-day sensibility the themes found in Milton’s ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

river woman

By Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette prefaces the opening section in her second collection of poetry with an epigraph from Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” This may seem like a counterintuitive choice for the poems that follow, ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

How to Avoid Huge Ships

By Julie Bruck

Katherena Vermette prefaces the opening section in her second collection of poetry with an epigraph from Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” This may seem like a counterintuitive choice for the poems that follow, ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Bec & Call

By Jenna Lyn Albert

Katherena Vermette prefaces the opening section in her second collection of poetry with an epigraph from Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” This may seem like a counterintuitive choice for the poems that follow, ... Read More »

October 15, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Flesh

By Sonia Di Placido

In the late 15th century, a Roman youth fell through a fissure on a hillside, only to land on the tile of a subterranean chamber. Unbeknownst to him, he had stumbled upon the baths of ... Read More »

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Port of Being

By Shazia Hafiz Ramji

In the late 15th century, a Roman youth fell through a fissure on a hillside, only to land on the tile of a subterranean chamber. Unbeknownst to him, he had stumbled upon the baths of ... Read More »

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry