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No small potatoes here: The Ocean State’s only entirely vegan festival, RI Veg Fest, returns to the WaterFire Arts Center for a fourth year in a row on

Canada's Poetry Magazine

Selina Boan’s debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award at the League of Canadian Poets Book Awards.

Alisha Kaplan, Selina Boan, and Roxanna Bennett have won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award,

Fainting Couch Feminists Episode 76: Love & Death & Magic feat. Cara Nelissen Cara Nelissen writes and thinks about pining, unrequited wanting, and the kind of bleeding love that makes us all feel kind of…pathetic. In this episode, Cara and Mica talk about queer pining, why Cara likes to discuss death on a first date, what *might* happen when you die, MAGIC, and why crows are kind of spectacular. Poet Cara Nelissen’s writing explores desire—but not the grand, romantic, gotta-have-you-now ...

Fainting Couch Feminists Episode 74: Powerful, Terrifying Brains: Brandi Bird Talks Psychosis and OCD In this ep, poet Brandi Bird chats with Mica about what may have triggered their psychotic break, how they sought treatment in the psych ward, and the link between OCD and eating disorders. Three years ago, Brandi Bird began experiencing some terrifying delusions. They believed their neighbour was building a bomb, their step-mom had been replaced, and people everywhere were out to harm them. On...