Nicole Brossard on Translation and Experimentalism in Canada February 27, 2013: Quebec poet and novelist Nicole Brossard has a new collection of poetry called Piano blanc/White Piano. If you're lucky enough to be in Montreal this evening, you can hear her read with novelist Jocelyn Saucier. But translation will be the main focus of the event. Two other poets (Katia Grubisic and Gillian Sze) will read English translations [...] by Harriet Staff

Canadian poets bear witness to the war in Afghanistan June 29, 2010: Suzanne M. Steele, the first poet to be embedded with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan says: "There's people swinging swords all through poetry." She spoke recently with the Vancouver Sun. While not many poets get a long look inside the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Steele has discovered there are already poets in the [...] by Harriet Staff