2/09/2026
your hand on someone else's heartbeat
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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...
2/01/2026
a reckoning by fire
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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 ...
1/03/2026
the 2025 roll of nickels year in review
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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...
10/03/2025
The 2025 Fraser Valley Writers Festival - November 7 and 8 in Abbotsford!
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I'm in my third year coordinating the Fraser Valley Writers Festival, and we're very excited about this year's lineup! The festi...
7/28/2025
Towards the Unsaid of the Blank Page: An Interview with Rob Taylor
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The following interview was originally published in the Hamilton Review of Books in August 2024. I am archiving it here, along with a numbe...
7/21/2025
a kind of deep empathy machine
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Karan Kapoor: Your poems live inside questions — and often leave them unanswered. “Where do we go from here?” you ask, before pivoting into ...
7/07/2025
the poem as a river
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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...
6/24/2025
the value of suggestion
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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...
6/10/2025
Some Notes on Writing Haiku
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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...
5/27/2025
"Why? And Why Now?": On Poetry and Companionship
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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 ...
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