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Tenille Campbell, the poet, smiles at the camera while wrapped in a shawl against a forest-green background.

October 2019 / Poetry

Thick Indigenous Women

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 - by Tenille Campbell

we are curves spilling stories / against your lips

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A man wearing a checkered blazer, glasses, and a fedora smiles and stares downward, against a bright pink background.

April 2019 / Poetry

Crossing the Seine

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 - by James Pollock

A thousand brazen love locks thronged the fences, / weird erotic spells inscribed with black magic / marker

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The male poet looks to the right side of the frame and smiles widely.

November 2019 / Poetry

Blessing for Twitter

January 31, 2020February 4, 2020 - by Adam Sol

The icon’s head / is too thick for its hopeful wings / but responds to my thumb

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The Decade in Arts & Culture

December 12, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Leonard Cohen’s darker legacy to art’s obsession with dead young women, here are the culture conversations that helped define Canada

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A photo of the poet Elizabeth Smart in her later years, wearing a dark jacket and a white shirt with a frilled collar, looking to the left of the frame and smoking.

Arts & Culture / December 2019

Elizabeth Smart Died in 1986. Her Work Still Haunts Me

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 - by Dale Hrabi

Poetic genius, bohemian, copywriter: she taught me to never compromise

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A black-and-white portrait of a man against a pink and purple background

Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

November 4, 2019 - by Ken Babstock

The sheep-horse has a feather in its cap, / a single hieroglyphic / eye

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Are Prose Poets Trolling Us?

September 17, 2019October 6, 2019 - by Jason Guriel

In a new anthology, everything is a poem. And nothing is

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Unscattered

August 16, 2019August 21, 2019 - by Sadie McCarney

He tricked his shrivelled tulips back to bloom

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Illustration of Kateri Lanthier

May 2019 / Poetry

Peony

August 1, 2019 - by Kateri Lanthier

A rose withers to a decorative casting of herself

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Arts & Culture / Poetry

Red-Eye

May 10, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Sadiqa de Meijer

The plane makes its fluid, plummeting turn, and my window fills with land

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