Just about now, just about every UFV grad is hearing inspirational messages from aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, older siblings, and friends. Oh, the places you’ll go! Follow your bliss! Do what you love and the money will follow! The world is your oyster! They mean well, but we know graduation can be overwhelming—a time […]
A Poetry Month Farewell from our ESA President and Cascade Editor: “Work Suite”
By Katie Stobbart My Poetry Month Choice: “Work Suite” by Emma Healey Photo Credit: Funky64 (www.lucarossato.com) via Compfight cc Prose poems aren’t always easy to pull off. The best ones I have read simultaneously bend and embrace both forms; they have the poem’s hyperawareness of language and devices and prose’s steadiness, its stream-like […]
Poetry Month–Not Just for Grownups: Children’s Poetry Picks
By Michelle Superle My Poetry Month Choices: “Peach,” “My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear,” and “Under Aldergrove Lake” Even as a child, I disliked most children’s poetry. Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie, one of the bestselling Canadian books of all time, left me cold when I received it as a gift in Kindergarten (and it […]
A Maximalist Poetry Month Pick: Four Favourites
By Virginia Cooke My Poetry Month Choices: “The Bishop Orders his Tomb from St. Praxed’s Church,” “Of Modern Poetry,” “Gesture,” and “Postscript” This assignment is very difficult because I have so many “favourites” for so many reasons. Here are four of them. 1) “The Bishop Orders his Tomb from St. Praxed’s Church” by Robert […]
A Poetry Month Pick for Rising and Shining: “Wild Geese”
By Margret Bollerup My Poetry Month Pick: “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver Photo Credit: Let Ideas Compete via Compfight cc Right now (I say “right now” like this is a new find for me. It’s not. Years and years ago, someone’s psychiatrist suggested reading it, and that someone emailed it to me, and I […]
An Inescapably Captivating Poetry Month Pick: “The Darkling Thrush”
By Heather McAlpine My Poetry Month Choice: “The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy Nineteenth-century British poetry is what I teach, so I worried a little that my choice of poem was too obvious. Believe it or not, there are actually lots of non-nineteenth-century (and non-British) poems that I love (everyone should check out Alison […]
A Swan Song Poetry Month Pick from the Writer-in-Residence: “I Shout Love”
By Emily-Pohl-Weary My Poetry Month Choice: “I Shout Love” by Milton Acorn This is one of my favourite poems… and also the slightly weepy goodbye post from your 2015 writer-in-residence. I’m back in Ontario already, and while I will definitely miss all of you guys, it’s lovely here. The weather has FINALLY caught up […]
What Do Breaking Bad and Percy Bysshe Shelley Have in Common? A Gritty Poetry Month Pick: “Ozymandias”
By Alex Wetmore My Poetry Month Choice: “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley My choice for poetry month was partly inspired, I will admit, by the runaway hit TV show Breaking Bad, whose best episode is titled “Ozymandias.” Watching the show’s final season, which tracks Walter White’s meth empire as it inevitably crumbles into […]
Graduating Student Writers on their Way Greatness
In case you hadn’t realized it yet, UFV is home to some amazing student writers. Many of them produce insightful local commentary on a grueling weekly schedule in our student newspaper, The Cascade. Sadly though, it’s time to say goodbye to several greats. Katie Stobbart (Editor-in-Chief), Michael Scoular (News Editor), Nadine Moedt (Culture Editor), […]
Dark, Deep Poetry Month Pick: “Rehearsal”
By Andrea MacPherson My Poetry Month Choice: “Rehearsal” by Sara Peters There’s not much better than discovering a new writer you love. I immediately fell in love when I read 1996, Sara Peters’ debut poetry collection. Peters’ collection is about obsessions, in all their varying forms, ranging from sex, cruelty, childhood, and religion. But […]