Secrets Poetry: Broadcast
/
“Your American pals
were orphans in the Pacific,
fighting with filial piety
and no instructions. What games
did you play with them as the vicious
assault on their morale hummed on”
Read More
Secrets Fiction: Maybe
/
““Yes,” you say. “When you lost the baby.” You angle your chin slightly. Your chin is a question. Don’t you remember, your chin asks. I’ve never known you to hide behind a euphemism like lost the baby before. I didn’t think I had to explain to you the reasons it was not a baby. I press a finger to the cold metal of the dessert fork on my placemat. I flip the fork so it is upside down. I flip it again. Rightsideup. ”
Read MoreReview: Jen Croll's Bad Girls of Fashion
/
People need fashion. The ones who recognize the true potential of fashion are those most in need of revolution. Explaining this concept to a tween demographic, as Jennifer Croll does in her latest book, Bad Girls of Fashion, is not as difficult as one might expect.
Read MoreProfile: READ Books
/
READ Books used to be the office for the Charles H. Scott Gallery at the entrance of Emily Carr University, but, at the hands of Kathy Slade, has become a space packed wall to wall with artist’s books, art theory, and a little bit of poetry.
Read MoreInterview: Arushi Raina on When Morning Comes
/
"Expertly researched and equally well written, When Morning Comes is the kind of story that will make you smile, make you think, and maybe even make you cry—very loudly and in public, if your timing half as bad as mine was. To find out more about the book and the incredible history that inspired it, I called Raina last week and asked her all about “closet writing,” South African teenagedom, and her upcoming book launch on on July 12, 2016."
Read MoreInterview: Curtis LeBlanc and Kate Fry of UBC's New Shoots
/
For the past 30 years, UBC has partnered with the Vancouver School Board in growing the New Shoots program. Each year, Masters of Fine Arts students in the Creative Writing Program at UBC become mentors to Vancouver School Board students and teach the craft of creative writing both in the classroom and after-school clubs. These wonderful pieces are then published in an annual anthology.
Read MorePortraits of Brief Encounters: Heaven's Gate
/
Unfortunately, there was one issue with his tribute: the subject wasn’t dead yet. They wouldn’t be dead for a while either.
Read MoreReview: REVERB Queer Reading Series
/
“They warned me about poetry,” she told the audience. There was no need to elaborate, everyone knows that no one reads poetry anymore. But on this Wednesday night at the Gallery Gachet in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, every seat in the room was full.
Read More
