periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics: Phinder Dulai : In Memory of Roy Miki: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/10/phinde…

In Memoriam: Roy Miki, professor emeritus sfu.ca/english/news-e…

Canadian multi-generic writer Wayde Compton subscribes to Keats's theory of Negative Capability: "...a writer is most interesting when they are learning through writing, rather than trying to deliver pre-thought themes to a reader. I write to discover what I think about

Writer Wayde Compton defines a mentor as someone who shows you what you’re capable of and “how you might live a life serving this art form”. His dream mentor is the incomparable James Baldwin: “…It's hard to comprehend how he produced such great writing, and I'd love to have

I highly recommend Toward An Anti-Racist Poetics by Wayde Compton in which he advocates for a new poetic approach that makes space for diversity in the literary landscape. Order his thought-provoking UAlberta Press book here: bit.ly/3A8vYW8 Watch Wayde read here:

"When confronted with subject peoples demanding reparations for injustice and cruelty, the liberal often turns into a conservative, or an aesthete." — Pankaj Mishra

One way to measure the historical era is that you live while this author flourishes. Reading and savouring every word.

Paul Watkins’ new book Soundin’ Canaan explores Black Canadian voices | News | Vancouver Island University | Canada shar.es/agevvw

Anger is beautiful. Anger is generative. Anger is ancestral. communitycentricfundraising.org/2025/03/10/ang…

thephilanthropist.ca/2025/04/narrow… by Chantelle Ohrling

two poems from fred wah's breathin' my name with a sigh

A minority of Canadians forget that 154 million lives in the past 50 years were saved due to routine vaccination. That's 6 people saved every minute of every year. The majority saved - 101 million - were infants. Let's get back to basics. Vaccines save lives.

"A call for work that celebrates the complex, the cross-genre, the formally mixed, the abject, the unstable, the code-switched (or the code-kept) resistant text. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize and publication in The Capilano Review." thecapilanoreview.com/language-the-v…

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife reut.rs/4dLXzeM

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

I have never used chat gpt once and I think it is embarrassing if you depend on it to get through your day

Searching for your next book? Check out the new Read Local B.C. eBookshelf vancouversun.com/entertainment/… via The Vancouver Sun

10 Canadian poetry books to expand your mind. lithub.com/10-canadian-po… via Literary Hub

Jack Spicer, “Any fool can get into an ocean” But it takes a Goddess to get out of one.