Author name: Nico Mara-McKay

Nico Mara-McKay is a PhD Student in History with a collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Nico tweets as @plutopsyche.

Shelf Life: April 2013

April was Poetry Month, and I did get in some poetry, but also quiet a few graphic novels. 42. The Metaphysician in the Dark, by Charles Simic (University of Michigan Press, 2003) 43. Far to Go, by Alison Pick (House of Anansi, 2010) 44. In Reliquary, by Daryl Hine (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2013) 45. Are You My

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Poetry as craft

The proper use of a hammer is to stand fifteen feet away and throw it at the nail. If you’re the hammer in the beginning, you’ve got to be the nail by the end. Such is life, cowboy. –Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness

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Largely Literary Linkage: Equality, CanLit, and video games

April was Poetry Month, and May is Short Story Month. Is there a literary category for every month of the year? No, but perhaps there ought to be. This Saturday isn’t just Star Wars Day (“May the fourth be with you”), this year it’s also Free Comic Book Day, which is always held the first Saturday in

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