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Embracing movement as theory.

By Elizabeth Prata After a terrible natural disaster, people often wonder, “Where was God in all this?” Others wonder “Did God cause it? Did He allow it? Did Satan do it? Was it j…

A poetic conversation among a Palestinian Israeli psychologist, an Italian Canadian psychiatrist, and a Canadian United Church Pastor in a time of war.

A Greek in Egypt, a modern among towering ancients, a homosexual in a straight world, a secular Orthodox Christian among Muslims, Jews and Catholics — the moder

For city poets, the streets are their canvas. While most of us only spend a few seconds of our day to take a quick glance at the streets, city poets translate every second of a glance into an emotion, a story, or a poetic symbol. Some view buildings , monuments and street corners as an

If he didn’t play hard to get, we wouldn’t fancy it – particularly as the poet seems to be telling us straight that life and art are futile

  Perhaps this is the quintessential Leonard Cohen love song written to Marianne Ihlen, the Norwegian woman he lived with on Hydra in the ’60s. The 2019 documentary film,  Leonard and Marianne, romanticizes their carefree bohemian life. Though they parted ways, they saved a place for one another in their hearts, as evidenced by the letter he wrote her while she was dying of leukemia in Oslo in 2016. In the letter, he writes, “I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close be...