The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to find their way out of poverty and build a better life for themselves and their families. Girls who receive an education
"A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. "You have a good horse," he
"Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most e
"My emptiness will not befrenetic with the frictionof my father’s silencesbut still as the unmarked gravesof his many forgotten selves"— From "Salt"A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Ta
100 days.100 days that should not have been.100 days the world could have stopped. But did not.For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem—each
How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta’s organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of
"A visitor from down south stared at my apple treeand said: ‘Those don’t grow here you know. It’s too cold.’If the apricot tree in Highlands knew it couldn’t live here,it might stop scatterin
"If anything, he was an anti-celebrity. He did not conform to society’s ideal of a refined classical musician. He did not even conform to the rhinestone image of a country music star. Nor did
"Freedom is something my father has never known. How do I explain freedom to the ones born bent?" —from "Not Scared" Ella Zeltserman’s poetry cuts both ways. The story of her flight from the USSR in
Gifford’s invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-anti-
"This collection has a straightforward ambition: to redirect the interpretive perspective that readers bring to Lawrence Durrell’s literary works by returning their attention to his short pro
"One morning,long ago,juice from an appledripped onto my words,leaving them stained forever." – From "A Soulful Sunshine"Jalal Barzanji’s poetry willingly mutates h
"As soon as she was gone from this earth, I felt an overwhelming need for more of her. I had to find her again. But how do you find someone after they’re gone for good?"After her mot
Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek—a life-long friend—offer a candid view into the deepest th
"Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human."– Amy Lebovitch Canadian cities are striving for high safety ratings by
Grant Notley, leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party from 1968 to 1984, stood out in Alberta politics. His goals, his personal integrity, his obvious dedication to social change, and his "pract
There is a beginning and a middle.There is an arc of narrative.There is a word, a large engraved initial.There is imperative— a cause, a god. Or not.—from "Let us compare cosmologies"
"You should always go moose hunting with a partner."—James ItsiFor over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the
