Firefly fulfils Anglo-Australian poet Kevin Hart’s longstanding desire to publish “a long book of poems each . . . in nine tercets.” The first poem “Rain,” has some challenging metaphors (“Ghost rain when poor men marry, ravens too”), serving notice that Firefly takes work to read. But it then unfolds into an engaging poem about…
In early 2015, while I was still serving as director of library services at Ambrose University in Calgary, I was invited by The Langham Partnership to become the library consultant for the Engagement de l’Afrique (EA) initiative. The primary goal of EA was to enhance the research culture at three seminaries in francophone Africa offering…
“Ave, ave,” soar the stereo boy-voicesas I hang the blue-robed Virgenand her naked Niñofrom the top of the tree.A cubit below the fatherless Holy Family, I tethertheir tin burro to a branch.The mother and child are all of a piece,a single piece of cutout hammered metalwrought by the peasant handsand fingers of the Oaxaca women’s…
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