“Saying No With Love”: A Conversation With Chelene Knight

 •  February 9

Chelene Knight is the author of Braided Skin (Mother Tongue 2015), the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and...

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“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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“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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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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A Choreography of Meanings: Elena Johnson Interviews Isabella Wang

 •  March 17

ISABELLA WANG is the author of the chapbook, On Forgetting a Language, and her full-lengthdebut, Pebble Swing, shortlisted for the Dorothy...

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In the Dream World of Poems: Elena Johnson Interviews Kareem Tayyar

 •  February 23

KAREEM TAYYAR’s most recent book, Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems, was published byLily Poetry Review Books in 2022, and his work has appeared...

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Peacocks of Instagram: An Interview With Deepa Rajagopalan

 •  August 18

DEEPA RAJAGOPALAN won the 2021 PEN Canada New Voices Award. Her work has appeared inliterary magazines such as Room, The Malahat...

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On Display in my Mind: Rob Taylor interviews Nick Thran

 •  July 18

A John Ashbery Remembrance Day A call came into the shop from someone looking for your Girls on the Run. We didn’t have the book. Could...

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Appreciating Each Moment More Deeply: Elena Johnson Interviews Bren Simmers

 •  April 20

Every Other Phone Call You Hang Up by Bren Simmers Your father is dying, you say, he looks so thin. Before moving in with his girlfriend, he...

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The Wild Mandrake: An Interview With Jason Jobin

 •  October 11

JASON JOBIN completed an MFA in writing at the University of Victoria. His nonfiction has been longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize, been...

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