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Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #62

Featuring Alex Boyd, Brent van Staalduinen, André Narbonne, and donalee Moulton

Reframing Healing: Indigenous Voices for the Future

Two recent collections, You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People and A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices, offer something rare in conversations about Indigenous experiences: a shift away from narratives that confine us to trauma, and toward stories that illuminate healing, agency, and responsibility to one another.

Tamil Terrains: poems, translations, reflections, edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran

This book, Tamil Terrains: poems, translations, reflections, edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran (Trace Press, 2025), emerged from “Root, Branch, Driftwood,” which were Tamil literary translation workshops held on Zoom but rooted in Toronto.

Truth and Dare: Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess and Hajer Mirwali’s Revolutions

Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess (Coach House, 2025) and Hajer Mirwali’s Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), offer the promise of revelation and the certainty of obfuscation, probing the ways that language simultaneously creates and elides truth.

Celestial Poesis: A Conversation with Kyle Flemmer

Calgary-based poet, publisher, and digital artist Kyle Flemmer has long been a vital member of his literary communities, both in Canada and abroad, and he has just released his second full-length book of poetry, Supergiants, with Wolsak & Wynn. Supergiantsis impressive for the way it represents Flemmer's robust imagination and technical skill as a poet working at the intersection of language and visual media.