Review of "Happening", "The Years", and "A Girl's Story" by Annie Ernaux

Review of "Bridestones" by Miranda Pearson

Review of "Memories Look at Me" by Tomas Tranströmer

Review of "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver

Time to call a professional

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Review of "There Was a Time for Everything" by Judith Friedland

I had screwed up in making us blood brothers. Outside of basketball, we were different

 The vines were biding their time, full of life force that did not care about her or how sorry she was

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I am wholly unimportant—just a witness to her shapeshifting, possessed of a voice that can be compelled into song by the land’s unfolding

I watch the lights slip and slur on the headpond and think down, toward the dam, the embankment and the long drop of the spillway where the water rests, whirled and stunned

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I don’t know where a person can go when they disappear, apart from underwater.

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Half a breath is all it takes, in or out.

Arabic would’ve never been were it not for our eyes

bonding our sneakers / together through a fluid / no longer hers but shared

Distance blurred detail, so all that was visible / in the mysterious vapour were armloads of sparkle / he hauled as if from the sea

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I have never been hit by a car / that I could not see coming.

Two poems by Jane Shi

... You and I / tried. We tried walking down a street once in fall. / It was night, half light, we found ourselves finding / ...

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Gender performance and colonial mimicry through the family archive

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At the edge of Japan's super natural forest

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The Photography of Ronnie Tessler.

Border photography along the 49th parallel.

"Every time we visit my great-grandma's grave, we close our eyes and follow her footsteps across the sea, and back again."

Photos of Vancouver Chinatown taken in 1956 by a mystery photographer and developed 50 years later.

I made a plan to get out

A map in two tiny epochs

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

After the neighbour moved to Europe, Lumpy moved in full time.

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store?