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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Dean Steadman

Dean Steadman’s poetry has been published in journals and e-zines, as well as in the anthology Pith and Wry: Canadian Poetry, edited by Susan McMaster (Scrivener Press, 2010). He is the author of two chapbooks: Portrait w/tulips (Leaf Editions, 2013) and Worm’s Saving Day (AngelHousePress, 2015). He was a finalist in the 2011 Ottawa Book Awards for their blue drowning (Frog Hollow Press, 2010). His second poetry collection, Après Satie — For Two and Four Hands, was published by Brick Books in spring 2016. He is currently reading Yann Martel’s The High Mountains of Portugal and Sue Sinclair’s Heaven’s Thieves.

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Dean Steadman

  Every year on her birthday, she captured a rush of wind in a jar and labelled the jar with the date. It was a birthday tradition she had begun as a child, a precocious three-year-old, intrigued by the idea that something invisible could be heard and deeply felt. Shelved neatly in chronological order, the jars now numbered seventy-five…