Mary Hiester Reid was a prolific Canadian painter and teacher who was best known for her floral still lifes. But after her death in 1921, her legacy and art all but vanished from the public sphere. Discovering her work for the first time at the Art Gallery of Ontario, poet ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Consummate poet and writer Molly Peacock returns with her latest collection,  The Analyst (Biblioasis), a chronicling of her long-term therapist's recovery from a stroke through painting. Through the recovery, Molly went from patient to helper, witnessing the transformative ... Read more

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Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more

In a recent interview Molly Peacock, talking about her collection of unconventional fictions Alphabétique, says “we’re missing out on the fable. Literature that comes out of essential needs for identity is necessarily realist. But there’s a different tradition of literature ... Read more