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Before Showtime, Amy Kaler
Before Showtime, Amy Kaler
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In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well …
Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman
Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman
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Kent Hoffman explores human movement, his own mobility, and how it influences the way he moves on land. This personal essay, told through the lens of disability and accessibility, outlines his experience of living with Becker muscular dystrophy. Hoffman's approach to walking and mobility is heavily influenced by a fear of falling. As his mobility is changing, he's adapting and seeking out new ways to move on land. Different modes of mobility determine the way we experience personal movement, but accessibility determines who is welcome in spaces in the first place. Accessibility in the form of providing equal access is …
When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory
When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory
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This first-person creative nonfiction piece examines engaging with the outdoors, primarily through walking and hiking, while struggling with diagnoses of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos (hEDS) and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). The author also considers how growing up with a parent whose disabilities made it more difficult to enjoy hikes impacted her own perception of the ableism inherent in the design, architecture, and infrastructure of many state and local parks. The author discusses the importance and struggle of teaching environmental literature through the lens of Disability Studies and advocates both for visibility as well as concrete changes to make hiking and sauntering …
Inclement, Susan Wismer
Inclement, Susan Wismer
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"Inclement," by Susan Wismer, is from Hageography:
Hagios, a Greek word for holy.
Hag, an old woman. Hag, an overhang at the edge of a cliff
Rough notes. Foot notes. Choreographies of happenstance.
Long Before Gps, Leanne Shirtliffe
The Weather, Rob B. Budde
Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch
Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch
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The Sea Squad is a band of cheerleaders against climate change. Taking action as a team in formation, they gather momentum, inviting all people to cheer with them, mimicking the infinitely expandable nature of the seas' molecular structure. The work was developed and performed as a bilingual project at Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada, and has since been performed and exhibited internationally. The following poems are some of the chants that Sea Squad use to get a crowd cheering together against climate change.
Yardwork: A Biography Of An Urban Place By Daniel Coleman, Vivian M. Hansen
Yardwork: A Biography Of An Urban Place By Daniel Coleman, Vivian M. Hansen
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Review of Daniel Coleman's Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place.
Among The Ruins, Edie Steiner
Among The Ruins, Edie Steiner
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Photographic essay, a version of which was first presented at the 2011 Green Words/Green Worlds Conference, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. Images previously presented in the exhibition Abject Transformations at Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto.
Two Poems, Joanna Lilley
Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper
The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas
The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas
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Review of T.C. Boyle's The Terranauts and Tom Bullough's The Addlands.
Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton
Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton
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An undergraduate’s memoir about his experience as a summer researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. The student explains his research in his own words and gives his thoughts on how he, the research center, and the other scientists there fit into the local and national society.
Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin
Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin
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Natural history. Teaching. Writing. All have form, all have function. But just as no architecture is risk-free, no architecture is neutral. In this personal essay, I explore the surprising connections that develop when university students engage with natural history as way of knowing the ground underfoot.
Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt
Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt
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Review of Alyda Faber's Dust or Fire.
The Wolf Is Back By Robert Priest, Kelly Shepherd
The Wolf Is Back By Robert Priest, Kelly Shepherd
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Review of Robert Priest's The Wolf is Back.
Three Poems, Madison P. Jones Iv
Qigong Dancer, Andrea L. Nicki
Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber
Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber
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Review of Erin Wunker's (ed.) Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras.
Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank
Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank
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In this essay, Sylvia Bowerbank describes wandering with her two dogs on her land on the edge of Beverly Swamp in Southern Ontario in an effort to cultivate Green habits and attitudes in her daily life.
Autumn’S Fragrant Afterthought, Suzanne Stewart
Autumn’S Fragrant Afterthought, Suzanne Stewart
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This creative nonfiction essay is an excerpt from a book length study that I have recently completed on the seasons. My manuscript was inspired by the Medieval Book of Hours, particularly its Labours of the Months calendar. This essay is a portrait of November. My setting is northeastern Nova Scotia, where the Medieval model of agrarian labour is still remarkably preserved. The essay is also a reflection on time: the rhythmic, seasonal flow that counters the accelerated pace of modern, urbanized life.
Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversations: Offerings From The Biennial Alecc Conference Queen’S University, Kingston 2016, Jenny Kerber, Astrida Neimanis, Pamela Banting, Tania Aguila-Way, Ron Benner, Mick Smith, Adeline Johns-Putra, Peter C. Van Wyck
Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversations: Offerings From The Biennial Alecc Conference Queen’S University, Kingston 2016, Jenny Kerber, Astrida Neimanis, Pamela Banting, Tania Aguila-Way, Ron Benner, Mick Smith, Adeline Johns-Putra, Peter C. Van Wyck
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At ALECC’s biennial gathering at Queen’s University in June 2016, participants came together to explore the possibilities of “making common causes” from a host of angles, yet all were anchored in an acknowledgement of the diverse more-than-human relationships that make up our common worlds. The following collection of short essays, authored by some of the gathering’s keynote speakers, explores specific aspects of making common causes. In this special section of The Goose, we deliberately invoke the plural of conversation. We understand the effort to make common causes as a process, rather than a “one and done” act. It is multifaceted …
Boulder At Creekside, Patrick Williston
Niche By Basma Kavanagh, Vivian M. Hansen
Wave Equations, Matt Martin
Prairie Surreal--A Digital-Poetic Road Trip, Mari-Lou Rowley
Prairie Surreal--A Digital-Poetic Road Trip, Mari-Lou Rowley
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Poetry by Mari-Lou Rowley
Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin
Stone: Walking Through The Burren, Nancy Ellen Miller
Stone: Walking Through The Burren, Nancy Ellen Miller
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Poetry by Nancy Ellen Miller
Poetry Editorial: Seeing Words, Camilla Nelson
Poetry Editorial: Seeing Words, Camilla Nelson
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Poetry Editorial by Camilla Nelson
Three Drawings From The Book Loggerheads., Allen Fisher
Three Drawings From The Book Loggerheads., Allen Fisher
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Poetry by Allen Fisher