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The 2024 CBC Poetry Prize is open for submissions between April 1 and June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET.

Verses of love and loss for our endangered flora, fauna and ecosystems, compiled by Vancouver’s poet laureate.

Rebecca Salazar grew up in the Nickel City and certainly has not excised it from her psyche, even if she now lives in New Brunswick

OTTAWA - British-Canadian author Rachel Cusk is among five boundary-pushing writers in the running for the Governor General's fiction prize.

OTTAWA — British-Canadian author Rachel Cusk is among five boundary-pushing writers in the running for the Governor General’s fiction prize. The Saskatoon-born, London-based wordsmith is vying for the $25,000 honour with her cottage-set psychodrama, “A Second Place.” The novel, published by HarperCollins Canada, was also longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. Her competition includes Hamilton-based […]

OTTAWA — British-Canadian author Rachel Cusk is among five boundary-pushing writers in the running for the Governor General's fiction prize.

OTTAWA — British-Canadian author Rachel Cusk is among five boundary-pushing writers in the running for the Governor Generals fiction prize.The Saskatoon-born, London-based wordsmith is vying for the. . .

Analysis: There’s nothing funny about an addiction crisis By Eric Eyre, Senior Investigative Reporter at Mountain State Spotlight When I read the email, it made me cringe. A lawyer representing a county in West Virginia that’s suing the nation’s largest drug distributors for their role in the opioid crisis grilled a senior executive with AmerisourceBergen about the decade-old email message in federal court Thursday. The email reveals that while drug overdoses were surging in West Virginia...

INTRODUCTION  As I’ve learned from my own experiences in the classroom both as a student and as an instructor, poetry is so often taught badly to us in grade school (if at all). I am, to this day, learning how to undo the myth of poetry being the work of certainty—a perfect command of a subject, experience, event proclaimed through verse. This is obviously a byproduct of the ways in which the Western canon is taught: the work of “great masters” whose genius we are trained to admire and...