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Issue 159

Three Poems

Sit any longer staring out the window like this you’ll probably catch them at it.
Budging up from the ground of their own half-moon bed (that fast!)
not even waiting to shuck off the last shawl of snow before Read more.

Mia Anderson in
Issue 159

Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal

A kingfisher perched on a power-line, motionless, over waxwings lisping in bushes below it. Two women carrying giant-lensed cameras tried to keep two herons in sight. Read more.

Brian Bartlett in
Issue 159

Some Worse

It’s unnatural, the way it moves. Not in the sense of being a mere product of human ingenuity or intervention, but unnatural in that it seems to defy the laws that govern other physical things. Broad and boxy, barrelling along like a rockslide, cutting through fender-deep snow like a guillotine through paper. And yet it takes bends with ease, never straying from the dirt road buried below, thriving on its own inertia while remaining nimble and confident in its control. Read more.

Orin Krest in

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The Writer’s Corner

October 21, 2021

Wild Writers Literary Festival #10

We’re wild about the Wild Writers Literary Festival, which is a decade-old in November 2021. As a result of Covid-19 restrictions, this year’s WWLF, like the 2020 festival, is online—from November 1 to November 21, 2021, there are seventeen events and three Youth Writer Workshops— https://wildwriters.ca/schedule-2021/ Two of the high-profile events include “From Plants to […]

October 1, 2021

What Is Kathy Friedman Reading?

My schedule is so busy that it’s often only when I carve out time off, usually in the summer or winter months, that I read for pleasure. I also love to travel during these months, and to spend time outdoors, so many of the books I own end up waterlogged, their spines full of sand, […]

Kathy Friedman in
September 28, 2021

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