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  Experimental novella grew out of years of performance pieces, plays, and monologues

  Born and raised in the West Flat area of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, John Brady McDonald is a Nehiyawak-Métis multidisciplinary writer and artist, a celebrated poet, and a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. He currently lives, works, and writes on the edge of the Northern Boreal Forest near Prince Albert National Park, and is the only reliable guide through his curious new novella, Electricity Slides.

  By Serge Desrosiers     Issue 80, Spring/Summer 2022

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  Sharing stories of colonization across land and language

  After a reading in Toronto, an older Palestinian man approached poet David Groulx with appreciation for lines from the poem “Widening the Highway on the Rez”: “now this land becomes our Palestine / broken off from torso and limb / this long execution.” In the preface to his latest collection, Groulx explains how the brief interaction made the connection between their perspectives on colonialism real, far beyond the analogy.

  By Steve Locke     Issue 74, Spring/Summer 2019