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Remembering Alistair MacLeod by Bonnie Lendrum
Bonnie Lendrum pays tribute to Alistair MacLeodI met Alistair MacLeod during the cocktail reception for Humber College’s week long Creative Writing Workshop. The year was 2003. Alistair had corralled his seminar students to meet them and to establish the reading plan...
Waiting
A poem by Nasreen PejvackI am the daughter of mother earth I am the tears of the mountains, joining the rivers; together we join the oceans I am the lover of earth’s forests, oceans and mountains I have climbed the hard mountains, seeking freedom, hearing of...
The Grand Book Tour and a Sprinkle of Lessons I Learned Along the Way – Carrianne Leung
I embarked on my first book tour in March. To sound glamorous, I liked to refer to it as the “western leg”. There hasn’t been an eastern leg planned or even a middle leg, but regardless, it made me feel a little bit like a rock star. My superlative editor, Luciana...
How Memoir-Sistas Saved My Life
A post about Inanna author, Susan McCaslin's, women’s memoir groupAbout four and a half years ago, when a friend suggested I consider starting a memoir-writing group with her and a few other women, I smiled but politely demurred. “Sounds like a great...
Hortense
This recent poem "Hortense" is from a sequence Susan McCaslin started on Paul Cézanne when she was in France. This poem is about his wife.“Every Hortense is startling, or disquieting, in her way.” Alex Danchev, from Cézanne: A LifeThe nineteen-year-old who...
Thinking about Feminism
I’ve been thinking a lot about feminism these days. I’m not a women’s studies specialist: I’m a fifty-year old woman, married, with a seven-year-old son, a graduate student in English of unfortunately long standing (must… finish… dissertation…), newly menopausal, and...