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“The lemon is not a lemon”: Flowing Letters for Our Time January 17, 2020 Correspondent by Dominique Bernier-Cormier Treaty # by Armand Garnet Ruffo Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp What We Carry by Susan Glickman There Are Not Enough Sad Songs by Marita Dachsel Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid by Cecil Paul and Briony Penn Out All Day by John Donlan The Broken Face by Russell Thornton Roy Miki (Author) and Michael Barnholden (Editor) Flow: Poems Collected and New.Talonbooks (purchase at Amazon...

Author's Note: This essay was originally presented as a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution. Many thanks to Atom Atkinson and the organizers of the Chautauqua Literary Arts Program. In the weeks in the run-up to Easter, my nana, Pastora Mendoza, teases for breakfast the raw egg from the pinhole she’s carefully punctured in order to keep the eggshell whole and unbroken. After she has washed and dried it, she’ll save the shell safely back in its carton. With four or five dozen collected, she’ll color the shells—dipping them in dyes, ladling and cradling the empty eggs with a tablespoo...

Posted: May 9, 2021 Book Review McMurtry, Larry (2009).  Literary Life. “If you were going to write a novel, I’d be sure to know the history of the genre before I attempted to add to it.” – Alan McKillop ‘Literary Life’ is a writer’s kind of book. Larry McMurtry very clearly lays out the requisites: read everything you can; review as much as you can; pay attention to voice and point of view. McMurtry goes on at some length about how reading contributes to a writer’s life and work.  C.K. Ogden had about 80,000 books while Michael Foot had 120,000. Umberto Eco, another Canadi...

Basalt creeks the volcanic province builds difference into silence buzzing the ravines with the Great Wall of thought so that even the currents of air sculpt the shape the water makes holds all its early information in stones and sound of water over creekstone lava done the way flow talks that little hidden fender of itself to measure whatever’s in the way not a mistake just a fissure an isolated vent where the water will find around the rocks intentional waves an invert floor of floating worlds another culvert for an old old story the one that feels the river one way

New Twists in the Abortion Debate Readers discuss a threat to women’s rights and a novel interpretation of the 14th Amendment by the religious right. April 11, 2021 To the Editor: The pro-life movement has failed to recognize a crucial fact: Abortion has always existed, even where laws ban it. No public censure, legislation or punishment, not even protection of the fetus under the 14th Amendment, would prevent all abortions. But we do know how to reduce the number of abortions. Comprehensive and accurate sex education and easy access to contraception, including for teenagers, have been prov...