This is Laddie, and during this COVID-19 lockdown, I'd like to say a word to all my two-legged friends who come to pet me at PAWS Your Stress at Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre and all the other libraries and student lounges I go to get petted. First off, I want to tell the [...]
Category: Story Time
“Stumped” by Mari-Lou Rowley
of course a poem demanded sit down and write me look west into the sunset blind your eyes while you’re at it you have no idea what I went through for that churlish church the incantations of penitents oblivious to birds but yet some residue of prayer like larvae would stick to the bark weevil [...]
“October Mist” by Rita Bouvier
mist clings ground level as I walk this quietness the light dulled made magnificent. leaves of gold slowly making their way home to the earth beneath my feet like me some day but for now I am content to know it is as it always was. last night the gulls soaring high the sky [...]
“How to Draw Animals” by Tanis MacDonald
Sketch the sweeping curve of shoulder and hip. Keep joints supple in their sockets, muscles at rest or run, legs fully aloft as Muybridge showed: exposures of Sallie Gardner in stop-motion. Shade the horse’s zygomatic crest, see how the skull’s empty spaces form the face. Bone embossment is nothing [...]
USask's MFA in Writing Variety Show 