Great Regulars: We have been bored into literary inactivity

by writers continuing to tread the road of the familiar, primarily because the majority of fiction readers are middle-aged women who want to be lulled to sleep by fiction reminiscent of a time less threatening. We lose our young readers who are fall-down drunk with boredom to other forms of expression. The problem also lies with the malaise of colonial Canada.

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Inside Kenneth J. Harvey

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Southeast Lighthouse Stairs,
Block Island

by Laurie Byro

From the north the winds lie long and light slants

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Enlarge this imageIf it's Thursday, it's IOW Verse Day II

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