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Sources of sustenance

What sustains our hearts, our minds, our bodies, our spirits, our families, our communities, our environment?

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Jeevan Bhagwat: An Interview

I believe that poets have a moral responsibility to speak up for those whose own voices have been suppressed or altogether silenced.

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Review of The Invention of Wings

The title of The Invention of Wings is inspired by ancient black folklore which maintains that Africans were able to fly before they lost their wings when trapped into slavery.

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A Novel’s Prophetic Powers

Set in the near future and structured into two books, the novel tells the story of a family and their fraught journey from New York City to Montréal, or, in some respects, from the dangers of dystopia to the refuge of utopia.

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Sustenance is not debatable

Perhaps the notion that indigenous people living on reservations should have the same constitutional right to clean drinking water as non-indigenous people has not really dawned on the city people!

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Sustenance

...we need to honour these silenced and silent women and all others who are still exiled and violated and unseened.

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The Biodiversity Crisis

"The human impact on biodiversity, to put the matter as briefly as possible, is an attack on ourselves."

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With This Ring

...they were born in a country where female foeticide – and even infanticide – is endemic.

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Where there is no poverty and oppression

Where there is no poverty and oppression – Where there is no prisoner of political dissent – There will be peace Editorial note: This article was first submitted in late 2016 when peace talks were still underway in the […]

A Second Coming, Canadian Migration Fiction

A Second Coming, Canadian Migration FictionEdited by Donald F. Mulcahy, Guernica, 348 pages One of the best stories included in the twenty-four chosen by Thomas Mulcahy, editor of this intriguing anthology, has the chilling title, “Mephisto in the Land of […]

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The Wound that Almost Healed

Getting into her white coat, she glanced at the list of people to whom she had given an appointment over the telephone during the weekend.

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Burning 1989

After the storm, turned my back on my lover till he sighed and left.

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Thirty years of Montréal Serai

Thirty years ago, in November 1986, we launched our very first issue of Montréal Serai. While commemorating this important milestone, we are proud to announce that Serai’s contribution to the promotion of literary arts has been recognized through the Quebec Writers’ […]

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Reading the paintings on the wall

Mexican filmmakers Luis Ernesto Nava and Keisdo Shimabukuro have devoted the last ten years to understanding and documenting human migrations through Mexico.

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Settler Education

Settler Education, is a historically informed book of poetry that roams through Canada’s past, focusing on the destabilizing impact of colonialism, particularly on the indigenous population of North America, but also on European settlers.

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Fourteen Days of God’s Speech

And on the second day, God said: “When sadness falls upon thee, eat gluten and eat a lot of it.” That day she ate many pancakes.