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Tag: npm2023

Seven BC Poets on the Writers They Love

Seven BC Poets on the Writers They Love

May 4, 2023

We asked our featured National Poetry Month poets to write about a BC poet who influenced or inspired them.Go to full post …read more

Learning a Second Language When It Should Be My First: An Interview with Wanda John-Kehewin

Learning a Second Language When It Should Be...

April 26, 2023

The author of Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead speaks about learning nêhiyawêwin, blood memory, and standing in one’s truth.Go to full post …read more

A Little Clearer and Cleaner: An Interview with David Zieroth

A Little Clearer and Cleaner: An Interview w...

April 18, 2023

The author of the trick of staying and leaving speaks with Rob Taylor about sustaining friendships, punctuation, and the nuances of language.Go to full post …read more

Close to the Barbed Wire: An Interview with Tāriq Malik

Close to the Barbed Wire: An Interview with ...

April 11, 2023

The author of Exit Wounds speaks with Rob Taylor about oral tradition, raging in verse, and poetry in South Asia and Canada.Go to full post …read more

Choosing to Not Cry: An Interview with Jane Munro

Choosing to Not Cry: An Interview with Jane ...

April 4, 2023

The author of False Creek speaks with Rob Taylor about grief, yoga, and poetry as the architecture of the imagination.Go to full post …read more

Uncooperative with the Expected: An Interview with Dale Tracy

Uncooperative with the Expected: An Intervie...

March 7, 2023

The author of Derelict Bicycles talks about mouths and teeth, poetry communities, thinking with a surreal bent.Go to full post …read more

The Poem’s Hum: An Interview with Roger Farr

The Poem’s Hum: An Interview with Roger Fa...

February 21, 2023

The author of After Villon talks about thriving in difficulty, sexuality as cipher, and corresponding with dead poets.Go to full post …read more

Listening for My Breath: An Interview with Délani Valin

Listening for My Breath: An Interview with D...

January 12, 2023

The author of Shapeshifters talks about connecting with readers, her Métis heritage, and using form to keep her writing playful.Go to full post …read more

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