Soliloquies ConcordiaClosure Poetry Wrap-Up: A Conversation with MyselfBy Yael Tobón Uribe As I was walking on the street today with People Pt.2 by Agust D playing on my earphones, I realized that it is the...
Soliloquies ConcordiaGetting Older with "Warning"By Santiago Eastman Herrera "Warning" by Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and...
Soliloquies ConcordiaReview of You’ve Learned Something by Laverty Palmerby Lucy Farcnik It’s the gritty 1990s in a fictional Montreal university. A similar scene to one you’ve read many, many times before: a...
Soliloquies ConcordiaPublishing and the Nature of Creativity with Patricia WesterhofBy Lucy Farcnik Would you like to start with a brief explanation of what your book is about, or what it intends to do? My book, The...
Soliloquies ConcordiaBreaking the Illusion of the Ivory Tower in Literary Magazines with John Emil VincentBy Santiago Eastman Herrera John Emil Vincent is a part-time professor at Concordia University. He’s published multiple poetry books,...
Soliloquies ConcordiaInternational Women's Day, Poetry and Rebellion: A Conversation with Alexei Perry CoxBy Yael Tobón Uribe March 8th was a very emotional day for me. I woke up with an inhuman, overwhelming desire to cry. I immediately...
Soliloquies ConcordiaSabotaging Self-LoveBy Lucy Farcnik If you were anywhere on Instagram in the past decade, you’ve probably seen the term “self-love” thrown around hundreds of...
Soliloquies ConcordiaBeing Pigeonholed in Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin By Santiago Eastman Herrera When I first read Giovanni’s Room, I was living in a one-room apartment in a building full of old people who...
Soliloquies ConcordiaCelebrating Eroticism in Poetry: A Semi-Close Reading of Audre Lorde's PoetryBy Yael Tobón Uribe “The very word erotic comes from the Greek word Eros, the personification of love in all its aspects––born of Chaos,...
Soliloquies ConcordiaNothing is Original: Erasure in the Age of OriginalityBy Lucy Farcnik Erasure is one of my favourite forms of poetry. It’s my cure of choice for writer's block and creative burnout. Also...