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NPM21 Blog: The Various Stages of Disbelief: Surviving Lockdown as an Introvert Without (Completely) Losing Your Mind by Liana Cusmano
For those of us who are introverts, the prohibition of large social gatherings will not have affected us as much as it does our more extraverted counterparts. However, those of us who live alone quickly found ourselves trapped in the feedback loop of our own thoughts, stir crazy and cabin fevered, with ample time to…
NPM21 Blog: Dear Fear by Amoya Ree
Dear Fear,where the hell did you come from?See at first I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me you know like those things they tell you when your 3“it’s just your imagination” “stop complaining”“be a big girl”Be like… my mother?with her skin like freshly brewed iced tea, and just as coldwith her…
10 Recent Poetry Titles by Queer Poets in Canada by Emily Schimp
1. Coconut by Nisha PatelApril 2021, NeWest Press Canadian National Slam Champion, Nisha Patel, debuts her first poetry collection Coconut. Overview: “Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. These poems bestow light and warmth and the ability to witness the world, but they ask for more than basking; they ask readers to grow and warn that…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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