It’s 1991, barely a year after the Oka Crisis, and I’m with other Commonwealth Fellows visiting South Pacific island nations.
This edition honours Maria Worton, a cherished Montreal poet and activist from Eau Secours and Échec à la guerre.
Maria Worton was fearless, compassionate and committed to social justice. She was funny, brilliant and sometimes enraged.
Dark Sky Preserves are protected areas around the world dedicated to protecting the night
Words & visuals
Something alive under the snow
makes it shiver
like it’s asking not to be
shovelled, scraped, or salted.
In the shadow of history, Iranian women's bodies bear the scars of intergenerational grief
Even though both of my parents are alive, much of my childhood was spent in a special orphanage
For more on Kathryn Jordan’s writing, photography and events, or to buy her book, please visit her website.
It seems now more than ever that we are faced with crises upon crises
Each body remembers the necessary
distance between lovers
the space & touch,
here & recalled
Caroline Vu's third novel follows a war orphan in Saigon and his Vietnamese mother and African-American G.I. father
forest berries grow
by the cool rushing creek
scent of irises
I had to dive fully in and swim around the poems as in a vast coral sea
Passing the gatekeepers four times with the rite answers we left you there in the garden
Susan Neiman is director of the Einstein Forum and a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften
