The North Facing Window
Maya Venters, Marie TrotterA Canadian poet writing about literature, art, tradition, craft, culture, and more.
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Griffin Prize Invites Feedback
The Griffin Poetry Prize is seeking feedback on the administration of the prize until April 25th, 2026. This is an urgent moment for Canadian poets, and I encourage you to complete the form and share it widely.
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The Many Colours of Snow
I tend to imagine winter as reality having been flattened out: the vivid colours of fall are replaced with a muddled palette of grey and white and cream; the steady noise of an active social life with quiet evenings in and solitary reading....
You are the onion of my eye...
Valentine’s Day is an important holiday for poets. Aside from weddings and the occasional funeral, today is the day when men and women hastily scratch love poems into a Hallmark card.
When we think of love poems, we think of Shakespeare’s...
“I felt like a traitor...” Elizabeth Bishop’s Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Landscape
Elizabeth Bishop has been following me lately. Last week, in a workshop with John Glenday at the , I had a lot of fun responding to writing prompts from Bishop’s poetry and watercolours.
I feel many strange ties to B...
Vision of the Lost Party: A Formal Analysis
For a brief introduction to David Blackwood, the AGO exhibition, and the 1914 Sealing Disasters of Newfoundland, read my previous post:
Perhaps my favourite work from the recent AGO exhibition, “Blackwood: Myth & Legend,” was “Visi...
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Canadian poet and painter living in Central America. Author of “Life Cycle of a Mayfly” (Vallum). EIC of Traces Journal.
PhD Candidate on Shakespeare, poet, writer.
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