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Issue 158

Almost Touching

Bailey sits in the backseat because there are no airbags in the powder blue Chevy Nova. The ripped vinyl upholstery digs into her thighs and she pulls at the yellow foam disintegrating out of the tear. Joy turns down the driveway into the underground parkade, headlights casting a quick glow over dark corners like the […] Read more.

Carmella Gray-Cosgrove in
Issue 158

Human Touch

Dad “You need to learn to swim, now,” he says, resting his warm hand on my tiny shoulder. I’m proud of my cork-chested suit that will buoy me, and its colour just like our green family-tartan. “You need to learn to drive now,” he says, opening the door of the Rocket ‘88 Olds. I’m proud […] Read more.

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Issue 158

Two Poems

Though bur oak is hard as granite, 
the letters rise, bit by bit, beneath 
his penknife, as native sounds 
formed in his mouth months before,
  at first imperfect, half-born. 
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The Writer’s Corner

June 17, 2021

“Write What You Know” with Rachel Panico

The title is in quotation marks because this is what we say to young people who are interested in writing. Here’s the problem: as a young person, my first thought is, “But I don’t know anything yet. I don’t have as much life experience as you.” We feel we don’t have anything valuable to contribute […]

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June 1, 2021

Poisonous If Eaten Raw: An Interview with Alyda Faber

This interview is following John Vardon’s poetry review of Alyda Faber’s Poisonous If Eaten Raw. John Vardon: An online image of your collection is still advertised as Rain, In All the Ways It Falls, your original title for the book before Poisonous If Eaten Raw, which suggests that the change may have been relatively last […]

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May 27, 2021

Finding the Form with Donna Seto

I started writing “Generation Congee” after my father was diagnosed with stage-3 colon cancer. My father doesn’t speak English. Or he pretends he doesn’t, especially when I’m around to translate. But I’m not fluent in Cantonese either. I’m pretty sure my fluency is equivalent to a three-year-old’s. People often ask how I manage to communicate […]

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