“Stubbornly I keep writing poems in Romanian”: Review of Diana Manole’s New Dual-Language Collection Diana Manole immigrated to Canada in 2000, but she never stopped writing in her mother tongue. After twenty-three years in the country, her seventh poetry book, Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God / Rugându-mă la un Dumnezeu emigrant (2023), found a homeContinue reading “A Review of Diana Manole’s Praying to a Landed-Immigrant God. By Adriana Oniță”
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Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies. Diana Manole Reviews Clara Burghelea’s Praise the Unburied
Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies Clara Burghelea, Praise the Unburied (Dublin: Chaffinch Press. 2021) Praise the Unburied, Clara Burghelea’s second poetry collection, starts with the motto, “Every poem is the story of itself” (Tracy K. Smith), foreshadowing a metaliterary discourse. In a postmodern gesture, the poet indeed allows each poem to testify about itself,Continue reading “Love and Bilingualism as Survival Strategies. Diana Manole Reviews Clara Burghelea’s Praise the Unburied”
Rewriting Feminisms: Trans Women Poets from the League of Canadian Poets
From WCLJ Managing Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack: Trigger Warning for introduction: violence against trans community In April of this year, during National Poetry Month, I was invited to Rewriting Feminisms: Trans Women Poetry Reading. Generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the League of Canadian Poets, the event showcased the work ofContinue reading “Rewriting Feminisms: Trans Women Poets from the League of Canadian Poets”
Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole
Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry Claudia Serea, Writing on the Walls at Night (Unsolicited Press, 2022) History is what we take in, Mom says, the small bites of thepresent. Eat up, dear. It’s all on the table in front of you. (31) Claudia Serea’s excellent new collection of poetry, Writing on the Walls atContinue reading “Claudia Serea’s Self-Ironic Surrealism in Immigrant Sociopolitical Poetry. a review by Diana Manole”
Iran needs us, we need Iranian women. a poem by Diana Manole
Iran needs us, we need Iranian women To Masha Amini and all women martyrs of the fight for freedom “Women’s rights are human rights!” she gasps before everything goes blue. “A dream I’m finally dreaming,” she thinks. Blue girls and women walk, dance, whirl on the streets of Tehran, throw their hijabs into the air,Continue reading “Iran needs us, we need Iranian women. a poem by Diana Manole”
Collected Poetry from the University of Guelph Creative Writing Program
Enriching Canadian Literature One Poem at a Timein the University of Guelph’s CourseENGL*4720 Creative Writing: Poetry, Fall 2020, Section: 01Diana Manole The fourth-year capstone course in Creative Writing Poetry at the University of Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies (SETS) has been one of the most rewarding, emotionally intense, and challenging courses I haveContinue reading “Collected Poetry from the University of Guelph Creative Writing Program”
Poetry by Diana Manole
Bliss Molecules To COVID-19 Survivors The smell of water, fresh water, seawater, dead water, marshes and streams, water carrying her away— folded, squished rocked on the tides of a second Noah’s flood come true, no ark in sight, no piece of timber randomly afloat, all expectations lowered to the basics “Lower her!” “Turn her!” “HoldContinue reading “Poetry by Diana Manole”
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