In extreme cases, imagination is an affliction, or did we mean addiction? Please stop, says the poet, let’s pause here. But that seems not an option for Courtney Bush: “I would calm down if it weren’t for the risk of dislocating my... Read More

Black music—funk, soul, disco—from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, coupled with the love shared by his parents, set the rhythm and inspiration for this collection, Douglas Manuel’s second after Testify, itself a Benjamin Franklin... Read More

Impossible Belonging, Maya Pindyck’s third collection after Emoticoncert and Friend Among Stones, received the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry on the heels of her fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Poetry... Read More

Debut collections mark an irreversible moment in a poet’s career, even while the previous years of labor and individually published poems testify to both resilience and talent. Sarah Audsley is a Korean American adoptee from Vermont,... Read More

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

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