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Microcosm/Microcosme
Confined to a 9×10 foot bedroom in Ottawa, an artist creates reflects on the visible and invisible connectivity between the material and ephemeral.
Poetry & Prose
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Neither Above Nor Below
Read this prize-winning short story about an imagined Jakarta in the year 2099.
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400 Years of Inequality
400 Years of Inequality is a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals calling on everyone — families, friends, communities, institutions — to plan their own solemn observance of the anniversary
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This is the land of people built like trees
Poetry that attempts to create moments of understanding, connection, and healing for Indigenous People.
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Marginal Equity: Poetry Reading on Indigenous Cultural Self-Determination
A book-length poem that parodies the form of a corporate/governmental prospectus—complete with opportunity statement, deliverables, and budget—all while exposing their smooth rhetoric, exploitative intentions, and empty promises.
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Uno specchio per cinque (A mirror for five)
Five episodes of a story conceived and written as if it were the script of a film for which the five members of Lu Cafausu are the collective director.
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The Lonely Letters
Six autobiofictional letters between “Moth” and “A” who explore love and heartbreak, hope and joy, quantum physics and Blackpentecostal praise…
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Colten Boushie
Editor’s Note: Colten Boushie was a 22-year-old Indigenous man from Red Pheasant Cree Nation, Treaty Six Territory, in the place we now call Canada. On August 9, 2016, Colten was
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Janet Rogers: 2017 Eastern Comma Writer-in-Residence
The Eastern Comma Writer-in-Residence program, co-presented by Musagetes and rare Charitable Research Reserve, hosted Janet Rogers as the 2017 writer-in-residence. Every autumn, Eastern Comma hosts accomplished Canadian literary writers within
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Brutal Kindness
We welcome you to our country Our borders open only to a few We ask for nothing in return, except That you recognize the deepest wisdom That when in Rome
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Barbara Kentner
Editor’s Note: Barbara Kentner, an Anishinaabe woman from Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation in Treaty Three territory, died on Tuesday, July 3, 2017. In January in Thunder Bay, Ontario, she was struck in
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We ALL Hurt
In the Autumn of 2016, Musagetes collaborated with Alessandra Pomarico and a number of community partners in Vancouver to host Italian actor, director, and teacher Ippolito Chiarello at Simon Fraser
