“A Ripple or a Faint Sparkle”: An Interview with Poet and EVENT Reading Service Editor gillian-harding russell

 •  September 21

gillian harding-russell is a poet, editor and reviewer. She has published five poetry books and a new collection, Lift the Ear of the...

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Poetry: “Because” by Sarah Wolfson

 •  September 17

SARAH WOLFSON is the author of A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Originally from...

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Poetry: “The Krishna of Kelowna” by Vivek Sharma

 •  August 13

VIVEK SHARMA is a poet from the foothills of the Himalayas who dwells in the myths of the Mahabharata, and whose peripatetic lines chronicle love,...

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Poetry: “Organic Matter” by Elaine Lee

 •  June 16

ELAINE LEE lives and writes in Toronto. She is currently completing an MA in English in the field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto....

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Poetry: “Half Sister” by PW Jarungpiterah

 •  April 16

PW JARUNGPITERAH is working on her first poetry collection, exploring themes of memory, childhood and familial inheritance. She has been featured in...

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Poetry: “Another Year with No Herring” by Chris Bailey

 •  March 9

CHRIS BAILEY is a commercial fisherman from Prince Edward Island. His work has appeared in Brick, The Fiddlehead and Best Canadian Stories. Chris is the...

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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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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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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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