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In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief.

In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story.

I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It.

Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential

Secrets aren’t good for families.

Gisèle Villeneuve’s short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror.

Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth.

The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments.

Four well-known actresses read these poems by this great American poet.

From the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry, to recent poet laureate Rita Dove, I, TOO, SING AMERICA captures the enormous talent and passion of black writers.

The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, She

From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their simple, honest, happy lives.

On s’en veut toujours, pour mille et une raisons. Par jour. Est-il possible de se libérer de ce sentiment de culpabilité?

Il y a plus de 400 ans, Samuel de Champlain, précédé d’Étienne Brûlé, arrivait sur le territoire qui forme aujourd’hui la province de l’Ontario.

Un périple au pays de la cornemuse, des aventures dans des «paradis» tropicaux qui ébranlent de nombreuses conceptions, un retour au pays natal où rien ne se déroule comme prévu, une passion partag