“Cuando los lagartijos corren.” When I was young (I can’t remember exactly how young), I borrowed my older sister’s copy of Tiger Eyes. I fell…
The Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA) – of which I’m proudly a member – is kicking off its fundraising for this year’s count and…
It would be impossible to discuss Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s work without touching on how beautifully he captured the nature of his subjects. This short…
Movie adaptations of novels can be a great addition to stories that are already well loved. But we can all name examples of films that…
The “Royal Library Man” definitely sounds like fiction, and a mini-series was written about him, but Anders Burius was a real-life Swedish criminal who made…
via Open Culture. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn…
I’ve recently joined CWILA! Have you heard of it yet? CWILA (Canadian Women in the Literary Arts) is an inclusive national literary organization for people…
“The poem is a form of texting … it’s the original text,” says Carol Ann Duffy. “It’s a perfecting of a feeling in language – it’s…
One thing that’s obvious about me is my love of words. So of course I was intrigued by So Bad So Good‘s list of 25 Handy…
I read poetry a lot. But as things got increasingly busy last year, I found the time that I read poetry was more and more…
I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. – from One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII by Pablo…
I had been wanting… I had been waiting… And it’s here! My issue of dead (g)end(er) arrived and look at how beautiful it is! And…
I’m thrilled to let you know that two of my poems, Gideon (and I) Undressed and Standing In Impossible Places, will appear in the next…
Persephone Magazine has taken an in depth look at Feminism for Real and they’ve included “After The Third Wave”, one of my poems from the book….
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like…
