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Even if the work of Steve McCaffery did not so resolutely resist categorization and containment, this special issue of Open Letter could n...

If we refuse to participate in the local, then the option will simply be taken from us.

George Stanley was born into an Irish Catholic family in San Francisco in 1934.  He attended Jesuit-run St. Ignatius High School, where he ...

My profile of Ottawa bookstore mother tongue books is now on-line at Open Book . Be sure to check them out at their Old Ottawa South locati...

The Writers' Union of Canada is pleased to announce that submissions are being accepted until February 14, 2012, for the 13th annual POS...

Robin Richardson is a Toronto native pursuing her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence in New York. Her work has appeared in many Canadian and i...

FOR DAYS I HAVE NO IDEA the house is in the warehouse the flowers on the wrong tree a manual in need of repair the remaining meat not yet b...

A piece I wrote on Daniel Nester's We Who Are About To Die blog for their "If you borrow this book you have to return it" ser...

Valerie Coulton is the author of open book , The Cellar Dreamer , passing world pictures ( all from Apogee Press ), and The Lily Book (Sa...

In the 1960s and ‘70s, feminists, Marxists, anarchists, anti-establishmentarians, poets, writers and artists in Vancouver, who had found no ...

[Toronto's Bloor West, Nov 22, 2011; why is Red so darned sad...?] Recently, I completed a collection of short short fiction, and even ...

The Peter F. Yacht Club regatta/reading/christmas party lovingly hosted by rob mclennan ;   with readings from yacht club regulars + irre...

EXILE The foliage of tall beeches went swaying. Herds of clouds coursed the sky. And we drank draughts of a wilderness milk. Our limbs liv...

My profile of Pearl Pirie (with questions) at Open Book .

Pulse That with which a new and selected shelf lets, permits, entreats: Sand and saw blade—she has bow to blade to breeze and within a cros...