What Makes a Poet?
A gathering of students listens attentively inside the student lounge in building 355 on...
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Tag: poetry
The Role of the Preserved Poem
Acclaimed poet A.F. Moritz is the 2021–2022 Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet at VIU. Moritz has...
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Spenser Smith:
“People who choose to take this stuff can die. The answer is to choose not to take them. It’s a...
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Greyhound Ride
It was a greyhound back of the bus love story. His name was DeVon. Tall, lithe, black as night. He...
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I Went to the Sun Once
Rufus woke up and something was very wrong He could feel it in his bone, still wet yet somehow...
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Compassion Fatigue
Resentment looks a lot like Narcan in a sharp and feels like it’s forcing out my will. I grab them...
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Ode to Greta
O’ earth, my muse, tell me of your young heroine who travelled far by catamaran. She suffered her...
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This Woman is Free
How do you live so freely? So untangled from societal reigns? Well, my mother taught me the...
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Poet Robert Hilles launches new book
On Thursday, October 3, Robert Hilles will be holding a book launch to present his new collection...
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In a one-room schoolhouse a cast iron pot belly stove burned through great stacks of wood and sometimes mice whose necks had snapped in shiny steel traps. We all cheered and clapped when our hero dangled them by their...
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Poetry contest winner: Conar Rae Harris
“The poem has a very clever title and is delightfully inventive from there on. The word choices...
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