About the Author
Susan McCaslin
Susan McCaslin is a poet and Instructor of English at Douglas College in Coquitlam, BC. She has published six volumes of poetry and edited the anthologies A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry (Ekstasis, 1998) and Poetry and Spiritual Practice (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2002). Susan lives in Port Moody, BC, with her husband and daughter.
Spanning a period of 25 years, the poems in Jean Eng's Festival of All Souls (Inanna Publications) explore the life of an Asian woman born in Canada and the experience of living between two cultures where heritage, gender and values serve to enrich personal vision.
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Our literary events are truly coast-to-coast this week: we're holding out for when airlines get season tickets.
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Got a need for readings this week? We've got you covered.
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Tons of launches and reading events going down this week in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Go, won't you?
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Happy Thanksgiving! We're thankful for a spate of literary events and festivals (five!) to go to this week.
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There are three major seasonal launches happening this week in Toronto, plus plenty more events in other parts of Ontario and Quebec.
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If you thought last week had all the festivals, think again; this week has Thin Air in Winnipeg, Fog Lit in Saint John, Victoria's Festival of Authors, Poetry Weekend at the University of New Brunswick, Kingston Writers' Fest, and a bevy of readings and book launches.
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This week, books and magazines hang out at both the Taddle Creek Summer issue launch (Toronto) and the Room Magazine readings (Vancouver). Plus, a lot more (in a lot more places)
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In Winnipeg? In luck! There are Thin Air Festival happenings all week, plus launches and reading series Ontario-over.
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Happy holiday! Because literary events are naturally more scarce in the summertime, we've lumped August together into a supersized, coast-to-coast literary listing! Set your calendar to "month" and plan for these great events.
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