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Behind the campaign curtain

Jeff Costen

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Laura Robinson

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What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Srdjan Vucetic
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Robin Richardson

Robin Richardson is the author of Knife Throwing Through Self- Hypnosis (ECW Press, 2013) and Grunt of the Minotaur (Insomniac Press, 2011). She has been shortlisted for the ReLit award and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Award, and won the John B. Santoianni Award and the Joan T. Baldwin Award. She holds a master of fine arts in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and currently divides her time between Toronto and New York.

Articles by
Robin Richardson

Early Illiteracy

April 2013
  Because penmanship became a way to decorate my dyslexia, disguise poor spelling with the perfect curve, ampersand a skirting of the word. Each point spearheading the finger as it scanned, not comprehending.  …

Ship's Prow Is the Cubist Slate They Call a Face

January–February 2012
  Sopped in chrysanthemum, she bows in, singing stanzas from Atlantic shanties. Gold-leafed,   plank-walker’s wet dream, to see the wood fold slip, copper nipples milk green towards the ocean’s glass.   Her scapulae of wing and rope, low sails curtain for her encore as she tailgates the grimaced sun.   No one knows about the shimmy she does at…