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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

James Arthur

James Arthur is the author of Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press 2012). He is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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James Arthur

Oysterville

July–August 2012
  Beside your trinket house the garden gathered rain. I pulled pears from the pear tree, and saw a few things grow (the wise, dumb pumpkins engorged below the gate…) I split a stump, wrote letters, gathered oysters, ate the rain.  …