"If you want to be considered a good mother, there are things you do not admit. It is a simple equation. If you are not a good mother, the corollary is bad and if you are queer, you are already battling stereotypes.
Author - Plenitude Magazine
Beach Story
One ex-wife was looking sexy in a retro green bikini with a built-in, conish bra. She seemed taller than she had the summer before, her legs longer, her toenails redder.
Vancouver’s Renaissance Poet: Amber Dawn’s Where the Words End and My Body Begins
by Mette Bach At the outset of this review, I must admit that I am biased. The truth is I owe a lot to Amber Dawn. She has encouraged and inspired me over the years in such ways that I’ve sometimes wondered what my creative career would be like without her. When I read her work, I inevitably find...
Silva for Sylvia Plath
Sugar le Fae —after Collin Kelley’s “Saving Anne Sexton” In the library in Florence, Mass, I found her shriveled up small, a sibyl living in the hollow of her own book: a flask, a handgun, neatly rolled cash. Everywhere you looked, her curls!— in the red cursive script across the cover, in...
C.E. Gatchalian, Vancouver
“I’d like to talk about Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice (1912), a novella that continues to haunt and inform me almost twenty years since I first read it. For those unfamiliar with it, here’s a brief synopsis. The main character, Aschenbach, is an aging, accomplished man of letters sojourning...
Nancy Jo Cullen, Kingston & Toronto
“I love and am inspired by the work of Suzette Mayr, who received much well-deserved attention for her fourth novel, Monoceros, but each of Mayr’s novels is a funny, topical, and fearless exploration of the subject at hand. The Widows, Mayr’s second novel, is populated by old ladies who are...