Poetry Questionnaire: Michael Pacey
Like the other arts, poetry has no “use” at all, strictly speaking, yet it is essential to existence on this planet.
Kerry-Lee Powell launches Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush
“Fractured, figurative but it’s smashed,” Powell says. “It’s not always linear. There is a lot of violence and trauma.”
Atlantic Canadian writers make good in CBC’s short story contest
“I spent so many years working in obscurity, like a lot of writers, and it feels like something finally opening up.”
What we don’t know about Nova Scotia fills book
“Nothing against lighthouses, but Nova Scotia is about more than lighthouses and boats.”
Poetry Questionnaire: Karin Cope
Being broken down on a dock or lost in the fog or just sitting by the sea are all perfectly delicious traditional recipes for poems.
Kris Bertin delves deeply into our lives’ detritus
The delicate balances we strike, the values or assumptions we base them on and the way any shift forces us to reevaluate.
Poetry Questionnaire: Shannon Webb-Campbell
“Poetry’s best use is to bear witness, to take roots in the body, to protest. Poems can protect, some heal, and others teach.”