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In Mi'kmaw, three similarly shaped words have drastically different meanings: kesalul means "I love you"; kesa'lul means "I hurt you"; and ke'sa'lul means "I put you into the fire." Spoken word art

I take Liberties-poetic-and take license to relate her story in her voice, to tell history. Who she was-as I hear her say or sing.

On nage dans les profondeurs des déblais, noyé, emmuré, enterré, suivant la lueur lointaine d'une vie sans blessure, une vie au-dessus et au-delà, une sorte de conjuration de la mort par l'appel de

Suie, pleurs, étoiles, neiges et quelques floraisons, le poème n'est-il pas, comme les cendres, ce que l'on recueille avant la dispersion?

La langue française, c’est tout un zoo ! Surtout lorsqu’elle raconte les bêtes et les bestioles.

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.

Exosquelette : Appareil fixé sur le corps pour lui redonner sa mobilité. La poésie est l’exosquelette de Chloé LaDuchesse : «Mes os sont toujours creux, il n’y a rien à faire.

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance—paired with

Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical.

A dual-language poem for newborns by well known First Nations writer Richard Van Camp accompanied by photographs. In English and Plains Cree.

This collection offers a cycle of poems about the poet who, as a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has had to live with the memories of the Holocaust all her life.

A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997.

Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette.These collected poems from writers across the globe declare one comm

A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands.

Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves.