The rain came down but the smiles perked up ... a book: “How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope,” edited by James Crews (Storey, 208 pp., $14.95). Crews quotes Jericho Brown ...

Bubbling up from somewhere came the rhythm of Jacques Prévert’s poem, “Barbara”: And here I was walking and wondering in the rain about ... climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains ...

Coryn Urquhart has made the 2020 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for Dancing in the Rain. The shortlist will be announced on April 15. The winner will be announced on April 22. Coryn Urquhart is a ...

Black flowers, black flowers. These umbrellas, these "black flowers," offer a passing refuge from the rain, and Justice's poems offer similar refuge from worn-out ways of seeing and imagining.