When my husband was in the late stages of his terminal illness, he asked me to read him poetry. He didn't ask for short stories, or essa...

As David St. John—a longtime friend of Levis and one of the figures instrumental in bringing his posthumous work to light—points out in his ...

2025 was a very quiet year here at Roll of Nickels, as life and work demands derailed my grand ambitions. I only managed to post five  quote...

I'm in my third year coordinating the Fraser Valley Writers Festival, and we're very excited about this year's lineup! The festi...

The following interview was originally published in the Hamilton Review of Books in August 2024. I am archiving it here, along with a numbe...

Karan Kapoor: Your poems live inside questions — and often leave them unanswered. “Where do we go from here?” you ask, before pivoting into ...

The long poem has a somewhat singular history in Canadian literature. It proliferated among my generation of poets in the 70s and 80s, and M...

The great masters both of the East and the West never forgot the value of suggestion as a means for taking the spectator into their confiden...

The following essay was originally published in the online poetics magazine The Woodlot in May 2024. I am archiving it here, along with a n...

The following essay was originally delivered as a talk at the 2021 Fraser Valley Lit Fest. It was later published by the League of Canadian ...