Holy April showers, National Poetry Month is over already? While this year's
#poetsresist campaign comes to a close, we'll continue to keep our fists held high against social injustice all year and beyond. Read on for a book recommendation as well as other litbits, and enjoy this last April weekend because before we know it...
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Lise Gaston and Cityscapes in Mating Season (Signature Editions)
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Katherine Leyton and All the Gold Hurts My Mouth (Goose Lane Editions)
Around the Web
~ Take us to Chicago where the wind blows and
these bookstores make us say, "whoa!"
~ Angeline Schellenberg's
Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books) won three 2017 Manitoba Book Awards, and C.S. Reardon's
The Spanish Boy (Signature Editions) also picked up one of the awards.
~ Harry Potter fans, Buzzfeed challenges us with
these anagrams of HP characters.
What Else We're Reading
After cycling to the lesser-known Cherry Blossoms at Robarts Library in Toronto, ALU Executive Director Christen started reading Kateri Lanthier’s
Siren (Véhicule Press), which includes a haiku dedicated to that locale.