An issue on Canadian Literature has been on the cards for a long time. Here it is, and…… here […]

  I first came into contact with Theodore Harris when I was given the opportunity to moderate “Art as a […]

— No language is neutral Derek Walcott To my students at the local university I announced that we would be […]

Between the ages of twenty-eight and forty-four, I lived for Montreal. Nothing could have budged me from this town. Pure […]

I am walking along 21st Street toward 11th Avenue to see one exhibition which takes place in three different art […]

The 2011 literary awards season is drawing to an end, with new stars such as Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt […]

  I was first introduced to ghazals by my father. Well, not really. I first heard ghazals at my father’s […]

  Burning hot it keeps becoming, and Professor Ivor and I have been traipsing around the island. Tall, angular, and […]

      Il était une fois un petit monstre très laid et très méchant, qui portait en lui des […]

      Rana Bose (RB): Canadian Literature has been evolving in all directions.  Literature out of a newer multicultural […]

Rope, A Tale Told in Prose and Verse by Louise Carson.  Broken Rules Press, 2011, 53 pages   I first […]

I don’t want to talk about what to read—that anyone can choose for themselves.  What I want to talk about […]

Of late, I have been deluged with messages regarding the shifting of elephants from Toronto Zoo to the PAWS(Performing Animal […]

  (Inspired by Robert Frost)       If only I had enough pens, enough to write ghazals in my […]

  [Please note that this piece was originally published in Poetry Quebec. – ed]   3625 Aylmer Street, Montreal   […]

    C’est en descendant de la montagne que je l’aperçus pour la première fois. Mon premier réflexe eût été […]

      Canadian literature is as rich as its native children such as Joseph Boyden, who, Through Black Spruce, […]

IN THE WRITERS’ WORDS Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets, Laurence Hutchman, Guernica Press, Toronto-Buffalo-Lancaster (UK), 2011   The1950s in Canada […]

  A deluge of water filled up the Sunday morning I went to see Varnam at the 35th edition of […]

  Los Angeles, February 1972   Dear children: When I myself was a child, in Italy, and toured the country […]