“Poetry Is the Potential Space Within the Walls of the Language House”: Cassie Williams Interviews Tolu Oloruntoba

 •  January 26

Tolu Oloruntoba is a project management person and lapsed physician from Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest...

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Poetry: “Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns” by Dora Prieto

 •  January 22

DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is...

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“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur

 •  January 12

Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best...

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“An Uncommon Eye”: Reflections on the Life and Work of Sandy Shreve

 •  December 16

One of the first friends I made in the poetry world was Sandy Shreve. Despite our gap in age and experience, Sandy took in this wide-eyed...

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Poetry: “Vaporwave” by Ellie Sawatzky

 •  December 10

ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared most recently in The...

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Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

 •  October 20

NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as...

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Poetry: “Steve and I travel to Calgary” by Christina Shah

 •  October 11

CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected...

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Cara Waterfall Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/1

 •  October 7

Cara Waterfall Reviews: Derek Webster, National Animal, Véhicule Press, 2024Ben Robinson, As Is, ARP Books, 2024Holly Flauto, Permission...

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Adam McPhee Reviews New Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1

 •  September 30

Adam McPhee Reviews: Wayne Ng, Johnny Delivers, Guernica Editions, 2024 David Spaner, Keefer Street, Ronsdale Press, 2024 It’s 1977 in...

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Steven Maye Reviews New Essay Collections for EVENT 54/1

 •  September 18

Steven Maye Reviews: Jim Johnstone, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry, The Porcupine’s Quill,...

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