ArticlesKyla Neufeld
Kyla Neufeld is a writer and editor based in Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory. Her work has appeared in Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, Geez Magazine, and RuneBear.
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PoetryCollection comes together through staying with poems, letting themes reveal themselves
For Manitoba poet Sarah Klassen, writing poems is an exercise in waiting. The process she went through for her newest collection of poetry, The Tree of Life, was no different. -
PoetryPoet reflects on her grandparents’ lives through poetry and collected letters, artifacts
Faith, love, death, displacement – these are the themes Angeline Schellenberg tackles in her new collection of poetry, Fields of Light and Stone. These poems tell the stories of her grandparents – Abe and Margaret, and Bernhard and Elsa – with whom Schellenberg was especially close as a child. -
PoetryPoetic exchanges between Monahan and Thompson lead to a book-length collection
A Beautiful Stone: Poems and Ululations, a new work of collaborative poetry by Lynda Monahan and Rod Thompson, has its roots in an old Japanese tradition. -
PoetryDebut poetry collection mixes grief with humour
This Hole Called January, a debut collection of poems by Paula Jane Remlinger, explores the Prairie winter in fresh and personal ways. “Winter for me suggests themes of darkness and confinement, loneliness, depression, and loss,” Remlinger says. -
Motivation for playwrights, comedy for readers
A debate about pies, an argument about alien abductions, adolescent chess players, and a zombie asking to be remembered: all of these can be found in The Long & Short of It: A selection of short plays written by the Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit, a new collection of “Short Shots” written by the Prairie Theatre Exchange Playwrights Unit and edited by Brian Drader, the executive director of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights.
