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National Poetry Month
Kamal Parmar — It's Only Words
Listen to Kamal Parmar read her poem “It’s Only Words” as a medium to offer hope and healing during these difficult times. Nanaimo poet and writer, Kamal Parmar has been passionately involved in writing since high school and University years. Her genre is poetry and creative non-fiction and she dabbles frequently with Haiku poetry. Her…
Poetry and the World
by Mary Lee Bragg for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Anyone who has travelled to Portugal or spent time with Portugese people has heard fado – the guitar, the long melodic lines, the half sob of songs full of saudade. Fado is defined by saudade, a nostalgia that goes beyond a sense of loss to…
The Many Gendered Other Reading List
A Reading List Created by the Feminist Caucus In this troubled time, we are all looking for brilliant, beautiful and insightful poetry. The Feminist Caucus has put together a reading list along the theme of Many Gendered Other. As writers, we all acutely feel “other” in some way, and have been lifted out of our sense of “otherness” or…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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