Lucas Crawford is Canada Research Chair of Transgender Creativity and Mental Health at the University of Alberta (Augustana). This rural Nova Scotian has authored five books, including the Kroetsch Prize-winning Muster Points (U of Calgary, 2023). Lucas runs “Rewriting Ourselves,” a...
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Self-Care as Demolition
the walls are moving. tumbling walls falling. i undo the home. i break the skeleton, the back- bone. foundation alone could move mountains. i shake it up. take it apart. kiss a side, turn it inside out. plop it face down on the ground. lie on it. give it warmth. i loosen the screws of every single...
Doubled
In the copy room, the machines drowned Anna out. The whirs of the photocopiers bounced between the concrete walls, their humming somehow as harsh as the fluorescent lights, halting any conversation that might begin even if just between one part of the mind and another. Professor Anderson walked in...
Are you out there?
S.A. Leger is a writer and ornithologist from Newfoundland, Canada. Her poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from The Hopkins Review, SWWIM, The Los Angeles Review, Conduit, and The Malahat Review. She spends her days exploring the 47th parallel with her wife and dachshund.
The Exercise of Imagination: A Review of Four Recent Plays by LGBTQ2S+ Playwrights
Reviewed by Paul Leonard Makram Ayache (Arabic translation by Hiba Sleiman), The Green Line (Playwrights Canada Press, 2024), 176 pp., $19.95. Caleigh Crow, There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death, Or The Born-Again Crow (Playwrights Canada Press, 2023), 104 pp., $18.95...
true at once, once
i was a [servant-god] made for [you-me]— just more [water-fire] to pour down a throat, just another bushburn [sinking-rising] [down-up] the building’s spine,……back to mirror, a [child-adult] sleeping until 12 [pm-am]……woke till the lightest dark……until until until i could the...