Birds of a Kind by Wajdi Mouawad
Eitan Zimmerman, the protagonist in Wajdi Mouawad’s play Birds of a Kind, doesn't believe that chance, fate, divine intervention, or “other such nonsense” (6) determine what happens in the universe. Yet when he meets the young woman Wahida, whom he will fall hard for...
Best Canadian Poetry 2019
How do you choose the best in language and say this is the finest? In Best Canadian Poetry 2019 editors, Anita Lahey, Amanda Jernigan and guest editor, Rob Taylor, would have searched through thousands of submissions to discover why a certain poem would be enjoyable...
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