Author: Monique Montgomery
Monique Montgomery has published several essays in The Globe and Mail. She is an award-winning songwriter, and she teaches academic and professional writing as a contract professor.
The Poetry Corner: HP235, Billy Collins
Billy Collins is the former Poet Laureate for the United States of America (2001 to 2003), and you can find some of his more popular poems in Sailing Alone Around the Room (2001). [...]
The Poetry Corner: HP235, Billy Collins
Billy Collins is the former Poet Laureate for the United States of America (2001 to 2003), and you can find some of his more popular poems in Sailing Alone Around the Room (2001). [...]
A Bicycle Built for a Few
I imagined the thief riding victoriously into the night, a speedy white haze in the shadows. [...]
The Poetry Corner: HP234
I am delighted to present you with a Henry Beissel poem of the poet’s own choosing, chosen before his passing, to represent his work. [...]
The Poetry Corner: You are not in the corner to be punished. This is where the beauty is hiding.
The selections in this issue’s Poetry Corner are from Canadian author Laura Lush. They come from a collection called Carapace. [...]
Mother Earth Says, “Stop Being a Bad Influence!”
Doug Ford and his promises of revitalization did not numb my environmentalism into submission, but they almost did – which demonstrates the power of public office and the bad influence it ca [...]
Everyone is Gay
What if gay were a continuum? Barely perceptibly gay to gay-all-the-way. It would not matter. Those of us who are barely perceptibly gay are still gay, and we need to recognize equal rights [...]
Leave it to Zohan
My mother was born in historic Palestine, and in 1948, when she was a baby, her family had to choose between their beautiful home on one side of Jerusalem and my grandfather’s jewelry busine [...]
When Jesus is Your Co-Pilot, Wear a Helmet
So, when I see a car on the road with a fish sticker on the back bumper that encircles the word ‘JESUS’, I usually feel good about the intentions of the person behind the wheel. The problem [...]
Love in the Time of Turkeys
“Poor turkey.” My mom says it every year at Thanksgiving as she pats the naked, headless bird on her kitchen counter. She says it while massaging the skin with nutmeg and butter in preparati [...]
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