Québécois/Acadian, poet/translator, French/English speaking Dominique Bernier-Cormier was led to believe his ancestor Pierrot Cormier donned a dress to escape prison the night before the Acadian Deportation, a British lowlight of the... Read More

Once anointed the walking poet, philosopher of Vancouver, and catching stride with "False Creek", her eighth collection, Jane Munro is a Griffin Poetry Prize winner and the recent author of Open Every Window: A Memoir. She has taught... Read More

Dedicated to the beauty and frailty of life, the poetry collection "Exits" exemplifies the musicality of language. Featuring delicate images, Stephen C. Pollock’s slim, mellifluous, and metered poetry collection "Exits" considers... Read More

The poems in "The Indignation Parade" are lyrical and rich, addressing the complexity of human emotions on both personal and political scales. F. R. Foksal’s extraordinary poetry collection "The Indignation Parade" explores timeless... Read More

"Songs for My Father" is a personalized book of poetry that is moved along by messages of hope for healing. Katherine Lazaruk’s engaging poetry collection "Songs for My Father" grapples with the hardships and traumas of a childhood not... Read More

Spoken word poetry asks for something quite rare among contemporary poets: a willingness to crawl out of the writing cave to stand on stage and perform. Fearless Blythe Baird creates her written work teeming with sound and rhythm,... Read More

We reckon that nine generations in Appalachia is long enough for a place to get in the bones of a family, and that kinheritance has marked Kari Gunter-Seymour with an intuitive feel for one of America’s most isolated and peculiar... Read More

Not all poets are storytellers, not even close, but all of them wish they were, wish they had a better understanding of how words and images bind spells. Wesley McNair is the author of nine collections of stories in the shape of poems.... Read More