Essays

Industrial Roots: Listening in Windsor, Ontario

By Lisa Fiorindi
When weeds grow through concrete you understand something although as a six-year-old child I wasn’t sure what. Being led by...

Ecopoetics and the Radical Lyric

By Catherine Hunter
The project of engaging with “ecopoetics” always resonates with that part of myself that wants art to be civil, to...

The Integrated Life

By Sue Sinclair
Although there are certainly relationships that rise above this standing reserve mentality (I’m thinking of my beloved bicycle or maybe...

Figure and Ground: An Ecopoetic Travelogue

By Tanis MacDonald
July 1: Canada Day: it’s interesting how you can brag We stop at the Terry Fox Memorial outside Thunder Bay...

Formally Speaking

By Maurice Mierau
Last year I led a poetry workshop with a group of about 20 older and mostly retired people, nearly all...