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The Current Issue: Summer 2024 Vol. 131 No. 2
Summer 2024 Vol. 131 No. 2
Cover images by Karen Hibbard.
Karen Hibbard is a visual artist/illustrator and teaches art at University of Victoria. She has a MFA from Concordia University. Her illustration work ranges from editorials for magazines to children’s picture books.
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From the Editor - Summer 2024 ~ From the Editor
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Summer day. Field. (poem) ~ Shane Neilson
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Whatever is left of my figs are yours (poem) ~ Aaron Rabinowitz
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Broken Light: The Alefbeit and What’s Missing ~ Gary Barwin
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You can’t make this stuff up (poem) ~ Louise Carson
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Naturally Good: Monsters Under the Bed in Utopia ~ Petra Chambers
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Hit and Myth (poem) ~ Bill Howell
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Guiding Lights ~ Ben von Jagow
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My Favourite Strangers ~ Tanya Tomasch
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Thetis Lake (poem) ~ Danielle Hubbard
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Drawing Abroad ~ Anthony Jenkins
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There’s Definitely a Numbing (poem) ~ Louise Carson
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Dupont Street: A Few Good-for-Nothing Sketches of a Best Forgotten Exercise in Communal Living ~ Joe Davies
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Bob Weir (poem) ~ Jason Boling
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Edwin ~ Daniel Green
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Screamsong (poem) ~ Salma Hussain
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Packingtown ~ Amy Kaler
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In the Cathedral Lighting Candles for Boys I Have Kissed (poem) ~ Yvette LeClair
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The Prescription ~ Paulo Da Costa
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Friend, Most Erudite of Shades (poem) ~ Martin Jones
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Vest with Chains – Selkirk Mountains, 1999 ~ Cali Haan
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and everything is about (poem) ~ Richard Luftig
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Good Food (poem) ~ Matthew Rooney
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Voices (poem) ~ Bibhu Padhi
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Through the Curtains – Travel, Memory, and Desire ~ Daniel Seifert
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What would I do if I knew this was the end? (poem) ~ Louise Carson
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ICU ~ Adegboyega Kayowa
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Seed Theology (poem) ~ Richard Schiffman
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Remembering Cross Pollination ~ Connie Levert
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After Skinny Dipping (poem) ~ Robert Steckling
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Good and Wrong ~ Kenneth Gulotta
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Local Fishermen (poem) ~ George Moore
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The Newlywed House ~ Dora Dueck
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I Want Every Summer (poem) ~ Salma Hussain
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