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What’s Marco Melfi Reading?
Imagine an award winning author abandoning their dominant language to learn a new one–not out of necessity but pure desire. This is what Jhumpa Lahiri, fiction writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, does. In her 2016 memoir, In Other Words, Lahiri describes how her obsession to learn Italian required more than courses, tutors and just visits […]
Finding the Form with Beth Kaplan
For decades, I’d wanted to write an essay about my visit with the famous artist Alice Neel, who painted a portrait of my father in 1949. I knew my parents had been friendly with Neel and her lefty gang in New York in the late forties, though had no idea to what degree. Going through […]
What’s Sandra Kasturi Reading?
I tend to be reading about 10 books at once, which does nothing for my attention span. In December, I am often wallowing in nostalgia and go back to my childhood favourites, the things that still feel Christmassy to me: Agatha Christie’s “The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding,” C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the […]
Finding the Form with Callista Markotich
To pay homage to my father, it had to be a poem. He loved poetry. He loved the rhythm, the words, how the substance of poems spilled grandeur into the quantitative world where he worked to keep his family in the black. He was a banker, small B, with a passion for language, literature and […]
Announcing Our New Managing Editor: Eleni Zaptses
The New Quarterly is delighted to announce that our next managing editor of the esteemed Canadian Literary Magazine is Eleni Zaptses. Eleni Zaptses (she/her) is a writer and marketing professional who was born and raised on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples in Waterloo, Ontario. Prior to joining TNQ, Eleni has […]
What’s Lizzie Derksen Reading?
It is the fall of 2021 and, like many people, I am experiencing a pretty bad depressive episode. Three books have been helping, three books that acknowledge the dangers of the mind but also the blessed limitations of the dangerous mind—the way even a person who believes they are being eaten alive by their own […]
What’s Susanne Fletcher Reading?
I picked up Jill Ker Conway’s memoir The Road From Coorain on vacation last summer. The writer’s name attracted me because some years earlier I’d read her book When Memory Speaks and recalled a quote from that book: “… we should read feminist memoirs as conscious acts of rebellion.” When I got home, I pulled […]
Finding the Form with Cynthia Woodman
I keep adding to a list I started long ago of “Words I Love.” When the mind is empty and the heart is floating, I turn to this list to try to engage on the page. That’s what I did for “Selling Soffio.” The words, “drenched” and “sinuous” were on the list, so off I […]
Finding the Form with Kieran Egan
Spurred by something I can’t identify, or would rather not, I have been writing a series of poems based on memories from my childhood. Some of the poems are fairly straightforward accounts of actual events, maybe transformed a little to emphasize their emotional significance in a way that might not be noticed in a more […]
Episode 11 – Sheryda Warrener
Episode 11 | Sheryda Warrener Episode Transcript Sheryda Warrener (00:00): I think with a poem, you always want to have something at stake that you just are not going to be able to answer, but you keep trying to get at it in this way, in that way, in this way and that way. […]
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