ArticlesSteve Locke
Steve Locke is a writer and poet from Treaty 1 Territory/Winnipeg. His work has appeared in lit mags and on community and festival stages across Turtle Island/Canada.
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DramaTale follows 3 generations of Indigenous women’s art, activism, survival ‘through acts of love’
Produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange in the fall of 2021 and now being published as a book, Cree-Saulteaux theatre artist and playwright Darla Contois’s play The War Being Waged is a multidisciplinary, multi-generational work exploring the roles that art, activism, and family play in the lives of Indigenous women resisting ongoing colonialism in Canada today. -
PoetryPlayfulness and wit woven with self-deprecation, and a call to action
“We are made of language and we live in time, and time is nothing but flow,” says Colin Smith, the Winnipeg-based author of the new poetry collection Permanent Carnival Time. -
FeaturesHomage to Phillis Wheatley casts poet, who was enslaved, as historical role model
A poet, a slave. An ode to freedom. In Alison Clarke’s first poetry collection, Phillis, the award-winning YA author of The Sisterhood series draws from her work as a spoken word artist and member of Alberta’s Stroll of Poets to craft an homage to Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry, who, remarkably, did so while enslaved. -
FeaturesFrontenac House finds mentorship for new authors particularly rewarding
Founded in 2000 by Rose and David Scollard, Frontenac House is an independent press primarily focused on poetry with its annual Quartet series. They are also expanding into fiction, art books, political satire, drama, and non-fiction, as well as many collections and anthologies. -
PoetryLong walks and the search for stillness help germinate debut collection
The neighbourhoods, streets, and interstitial spaces of Winnipeg appear frequently in Moon Was a Feather, the first poetry collection from hometown singer-songwriter Scott Nolan. -
FeaturesSharing 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.
