2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry FinalistA brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory.By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake’s poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain ...

2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry FinalistA brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory.By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake’s poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain ...

What he did was unforgivable and if he wants me, he better get ready to grovel.LucianI value one thing above all else: redeeming my family’s legacy within my mafia clan. I do everything right. I’ve almost solidified my position as our next consigliere. I intend to marry a clan princess. There’s only one barrier in my plan of domination.I must graduate high school.To do that, I need a tutor.My boss chooses the girl I’ve bulli...

Cameron Awkward-Rich's Transit, runner-up for the 2014 Button Poetry Prize, takes the reader on a constantly surprising journey through gender and identity in contemporary America. Awkward-Rich's academic prowess shines throughout, as does his remarkable ability to condense an essay's worth of thought and theory into a few poignant lines. A book to be read anywhere and everywhere: in a classroom, on the subway, under blankets on a cold winter night.

Deserted by her people at a kennel one dog longs to go home. Will someone choose her and take her to their home? Or is she meant to be alone with no human to call her own. This story is based on the life of a real dog but told by her.

The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a relentless drive for life. Seeking pleasure, these poems navigate dangerous terrain, staying with ambivalence and probing its depths. Queer femininity seeks heterosexual masculinity with varying results. First dates and one-night-stands, alleyways and coffee shops, forest flo...

A dark comedy short story about a man who adopts a stray cat that makes his life a living hell.

Sometimes things aren't what we expect between life and death.

What if I told you that not all couples are as happy as they appear in the cover photo?Let's face it: it is not easy to live with the same person for the rest of your life.So you will read some anecdotes about couples in love.

This never happens to plumbers.The plumber's world makes sense. It's all about water and gravity and slanting pipes. You channel the water in, you channel it back out. You slant the pipes earthward a little. Not much, just enough for the water to head in the right direction. Gravity does most of the work.Mine is not a plumber's world and my world makes no sense. Marie is on the floor and my knuckles hurt.The plumber has an easy life. Copper pipes bring water in, cop...

Tami just finished her last year of high school. What will happen after dark when she goes to her senior party?

during the past thirty odd years with my love partner ive often pondered the meaning of love is it just electro chemical connections in the brain is loving a sibling more satisfying than loving a pet can loving a parent be the same as loving a spouse is love really more powerful than superman is love of a good wine comparable with the love of a good view will love really conquer all does love taste as nice as chocolate can love overcome hate just what the hell is love anyway im still as co...