ISSUE 26
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Paul Ugor
Amatoritsero Ede at 60: Nigerian-Canadian Poet as Global-Cultural Historian
Professor Amatoritsero Ede is known globally as an accomplished African/Black poet, and in recent years, as a research powerhouse blazing new frontiers in international Black literatures and cultures, and a … Read the whole text
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Melanie Schnell
Heart Calculation Finalem
The first day she walked into his class a phrase echoed in his mind so loudly that he wondered, terrified, if he’d said it aloud: belle-laide. Beautiful-ugly. He didn’t know how he knew this phrase, … Read the whole text
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Richard-Yves Sitoski
Canadian Raising
My father’s father came
with songs in seven tongues
and no-one to sing them to.His Polish elbowed German, Dutch
and Yiddish to hear a flat vernacular
push liver pills on sidewalks,while his children learned his … Read the whole text
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Pushparaj Acharya
By the Don River
The Don glistens
faintly at nightbesides an illuminated city
the unused
train tracks we are walking
in a fantasygrow
stretch
expand
swelllike the invisible spirits
buried
in the darknessuntil
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Pauline Peters
Communion
Darkness weighs
about seventeen kilograms per unit.
It tastes like salt and iron.
I have held it and tasted it.
Believe me.The feel of darkness varies.
Some days it has the consistency
of cold molasses,
other days the … Read the whole text -
Ewa Mazierska
Lonely Wolves
When David was in the nursery, the ladies working there used to say that he was ‘no trouble,’ ‘well adjusted,’ and ‘rather quiet,’ which they presented as a good thing. In the first and second year of … Read the whole text
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John Sainsbury
Lord Rochester is Dying: A Comedy
(being a cont. serialisation)
Act 2 Scene 1
Great Hall, Woodstock Lodge (near Oxford), the Rochester country estate.
ANNE WILMOT, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF ROCHESTER: I have a letter, post haste, from Baptiste. They … Read the whole text
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Pamela Hensley
O Fortuna
On a muggy night in Montreal, three days before graduation, Hubert lay face up on his bed, on the quilt his grandmother made, next to the poems he’d written, imagining Lydia’s lips above his, her hot breath … Read the whole text
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Shalom Camenietzki
The GrandPuppy
“The Dandie Dinmont is a gorgeous-looking and very affectionate terrier,” Karen Lipschitz shared with Morris, her husband, her online research on mid-sized dogs. “Their enormous black eyes marvellously stand out against the background of their brownish coats. … Read the whole text
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Kate Kavelman
Lust for Life
Deep in the woods of Northern Maine, there is a cabin. It is small and made of dark wood. It has only the essential rooms: a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and two small living spaces. It has … Read the whole text
ACCUTE Journal, The Angle
