Essays & Interviews (FEED)

Learning to Let My Instincts Lead: Interview with Molly Cross-Blanchard

In this interview, Canthius team member Manahil Bandukwala chats with Molly about her forthcoming collection, Exhibitionist, coming into an honest voice as a writer, and work that she is excited about these days.

Guest UserOctober 27, 2020Comment

Entanglements of Brass and Thread and Skin

As we began to discuss the outside world in our classroom, the gendered world we lived in, the kinds of discussions we shared were unlike those I have experienced in any other setting. It felt to me that the bond our bodies shared shaped those conversations.

Guest UserJune 30, 2020Comment

Be Who You Needed When You Were Younger: Interview with Sheniz Janmohamed

In this interview, Canthius editorial board member Manahil Bandukwala talks to Sheniz about connecting writers, mentorship, and cross-disciplinary projects.

Guest UserMay 1, 2020Comment

Do the Things You Must and Forget the Rest: On Priscila Uppal with Canisia Lubrin, Dani Spinosa, and Meaghan Strimas

In honour of Priscila Uppal, and a little over a year since her passing, an interview with fellow writers and friends of Priscila’s, Canisia Lubrin, Dani Spinosa and Meaghan Strimas.

Guest UserApril 15, 2020Comment

2019 Priscila Uppal Prize Winners

We are thrilled to introduce the recipients of the first annual Priscila Uppal Memorial Prize for Poetry. Over 250 poems from over 100 poets were submitted to the contest and these were all carefully considered by judge Phoebe Wang.

Guest UserMarch 23, 2020Comment

Conceiving a Relationship Between Literary and Speculative: Interview with Terese Mason Pierre

Terese Mason Pierre is a writer, editor and organizer. Her work has appeared in Canthius, Strange Horizons, and Train: a poetry journal, among others. She is currently the poetry editor of Augur Magazine, a Canadian speculative and surrealism literature journal, and she volunteers with Shab-e She’r, a monthly poetry reading series. Terese lives and works in Toronto.

Guest UserFebruary 8, 2020Comment

I’m Doing This Work With People in Mind: Interview with Isabella Wang

In this interview, Canthius editorial board member Manahil Bandukwala talks to poet Isabella Wang about her chapbook, On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press, 2019), her community involvement and organizing, and her current project on writing and translating ghazals.

Guest UserDecember 6, 2019 Comment

Gratitude Flowing in Both Directions: Interview with Karen Schindler

In this interview, Canthius editorial board member Manahil Bandukwala talks to publisher and poet Karen Schindler about Baseline Press, the London poetry community, and the labour that goes into running a small press.

Guest UserNovember 26, 2019Comment

A Leap Into Space! Interview with Phoebe Wang

Phoebe Wang is the judge for the 2019 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award For Poetry. In this interview, Manahil Bandukwala talks to Phoebe about her role in nurturing BIPOC writers, submitting to contests, and what she’s looking for in a winning poem.

Guest UserNovember 20, 2019Comment

Intersections of Music and Poetry: Interview with Sanna Wani

Sanna Wani is a person and poet around Toronto. Her work is available in The Puritan, Peach Mag and TIME. She loves daisies.

Guest UserOctober 23, 2019Comment

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s Rape Culture.

When a man rushes in to save still-tiny-helpless-old me without asking my consent, it reduces me to an object to be acted upon for his self-gratification. I’m the prop. I’m just the means to his self-satisfaction. Grabbing me because he’s decided I want it, is an explicit display of rape culture.

Guest UserOctober 15, 2019 Comment

Entangled Bodies in a Stubbornly Material-Textual World

By reasserting the stubborn materiality of our interdependent, entangled and embodied existence with nonhumans, how might we forge better ethical relations between humans and animals, plants and elements like water, air and land?

Guest UserMarch 17, 2019Comment

Poetry, Cyborgs and Black Exploitation Month: Interview with Whitney French

Whitney is the founder and co-editor and of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine and the successful workshop series Writing While Black, an initiative to develop a community of Black writers.

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Interview with Soraya Peerbaye

"I love the way poetry has the capacity to hold questions that can’t be answered; to maintain their unanswerability as active, expressive, generative."

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The Surreal Body: Ambera Wellmann's Instagram

Welmmann’s work is a direct descendent of Meret Oppenheim's and Elsa Schiaparelli’s. And just as Oppenheim and Schiaparelli, Wellmann is on the “right side” of representation of the female form.

Guest UserJuly 11, 2018Comment

Interview with Deirdre Maultsaid

“In my own view, feminism is the claim to the truth that women have moral, political and sexual agency and should have commensurate influence in the world. Feminists are those that speak that truth and influence social mores, culture, and public life.”

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Interview with Svetlana Lilova

Svetlana Lilova, author of Metaphysical Dictionary, talks to us about immigrating to Canada, learning English and her writing practice.

Guest UserNovember 17, 2016Comment

Poetry is for Everyone

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard statements like, “I don’t read poetry. I just don’t get it.” While poetry can seem inaccessible and impossible to understand, it is important for and relevant to everyone!

Guest UserNovember 11, 2016 Comment

Why Read Literary Journals?

Literary journals are unique, playful spaces that foster dialogue between readers and writers and transform the meanings of texts. When read publicly, these texts expand even more as listeners generate their own interpretations.

Guest UserOctober 8, 2015Comment

Creative Exchange & the Kitchen Table

These exchanges not only bring one’s private world into dialogue with another’s, they invite the public, collective realm of “poetry” into the private space of “women.” This is a new kitchen table. These are new women.

Guest UserJuly 14, 2015Comment