Can you consider something resilient if it’s broken? This question emerges from my tendency to confuse persistence and resilience. There…
There are mornings when I wake up and can’t seem to locate myself. I am in a different bedroom in…
by Emily Schimp for National Poetry Month 2021 Coconut by Nisha Patel (April 2021, NeWest Press) Canadian National Slam Champion,…
For those of us who are introverts, the prohibition of large social gatherings will not have affected us as much…
We asked the poets longlisted for the 2021 Book Awards some questions about their writing lives, inspirations and -of course…
: listening for sirens : flashbacks bounce passed : you spit net fluently : you don’t live with any…
Resilience is a scam. What I mean by that is the way we toss the concept of resilience around like…
I contemplated abandoning the topic of resilience within five minutes of research. The adverbs I found in every dictionary definition…
Resilience is a coin On one side is strength, on the other, vulnerability. We’re not one or the other—we’re both.…
I’m running another virtual Spoken Word workshop (COVID amirite?) and one of the participants, a young, queer, BIPOC musician asks…