The Blue Metropolis Foundation is a non-profit organization that hosts an annual literary festival of international calibre and provides a variety of educational and social programs throughout the year, both in classrooms and online. These initiatives use reading […]
I often think of Neil Smith as a creature more than a person, in the best of all possible ways. He has a magical quality about him; rather than walking, he seems to hover inches […]
Adam Haiun’s debut poetry book, I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid, attempts to break down the cubicles of the world, to vindicate the forgotten voices howling anachronistically into the no-man’s-land of the […]
Quant au début des années 1990, à Batroun, une ville du Liban-nord, je rencontrais Fouad el Khabbaz pour la première fois, c’est surtout le correspondant de journaux français et étrangers à Beyrouth que j’étais, qui […]
Opening Ceremony, Laura Marie Marciano’s second collection of poetry, is a memory-mending confession, coming clean with the kind of clarity to prepare for the prospect of parenthood. The lines trace back one life, before the […]
Between rootlessness and unquiet, Grace Kwan’s debut collection of poems, The Sacred Heart Motel, visits the dim private experience of lovers, strangers, visitors, and migrants without reservation or a master key. It is only fitting […]
Harry Somers was a prolific composer of various mediums, including stage productions, concert halls, film, and radio, and advocated for Canadian music internationally. Norma Beecroft was a prominent Canadian composer, producer, and broadcaster who received […]
In Jacob Wren’s latest novel, Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim, an unnamed fiction writer with nothing to lose moves from his pent-up room, stepping out of the world of the imaginary and into […]
As a professor of literature, it’s pretty obvious: Linda Morra loves books. She loves talking about books, she loves reading books, and she loves sharing books. So, becoming a podcaster about books was inevitable. And […]
Good Want reads as a road map through the wilderness of the suburbs. The homeward bound collection of poems lies, restlessly, between divine deliverance and blunt realness, serving as a careful witness to the small […]
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