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P122 The Last Wilderness: Carole Harmon

“ I’m working in that part of Canada which stands on end.”

Byron Harmon

What is wild? 

This question underlies Carole Harmon’s inquiry into the role her family played in the colonial history of western North America, specifically the Pacific Northwest in the USA and the Canadian Rockies. 

The Last Wilderness centres on her paternal grandfather, Byron Harmon, who photographed and filmed the Canadian Rockies and adjoining mountain ranges between 1906 and 1934. It delves into family history and introduces some of the remarkable characters with whom he shared a life in this mountain wilderness.

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A Memoir Through Essays and Other Stories
Ingrid Rose

The body is Ingrid Rose's touchstone as she explores her life through stories and personal essays:

• Her relationship with her twin brother, Tim
• Her New York adventures as a young woman, waitressing in a jazz club and performing with Warm Rain, a spoken word and music ensemble 
• Her spiritual and intellectual transformation from a young communist to a spiritual seeker
• Discovering her body as a source and interpreter of consciousness.

From her childhood in London, England, to living in intentional communities in the Cotswolds and France, Ingrid arrived in Vancouver, Canada, in 1996. She is a storyteller, writing mentor, and author who explores body/mind/spirit.

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They Lived Ever After

Stories and true accounts about the resilience of the human spirit, the importance of fairy tales, and creativity as a wellspring in troubling times.

Una Suseli O'Connell: They Lived Ever After

Medwyn McConachy: Vasilysa and the Coloured Stones

Graem Castell: By Way of Beachy Head

Mohamad Kebbewar: Fragmented

From the Anthology, Off the Map: Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues:

Kate Bird: Shelter

Venge Dixon: Linus

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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Dreams Before Extinction

Program 3 of 3: Readings from the anthology

JoJo Donovan: Dispatches from the Collapse of Time

Nora Jamieson: I Am Nothing Without My Dead

Wendy Gorchinsky Lambo: Making Love With a Three Billion Year Old Woman

Susan Cerulean: Bear Requiem

Juliana Borrero Echeverry: Landscapes at the End of the World

ORDER THE ANTHOLOGY HERE
Dark Matter Women Witnessing

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Program 2 of 3: Readings from the anthology

Deena Metzger: Dreaming Another Language; She Will not Kill
Introducing The Literature of Restoration

Miriam Greenspan: Seeing in the Dark, from the section
To Witness: Seeing in the Dark

Sharon Rodgers Simone, Fired Anew, from the section
 Fired Anew: What it Means to Heal

Cynthia Travis, Listen With Your Feet, from the section
 The Grammar of Animacy

Nancy Windheart, Aspen Ways of Knowing, from the section
What We Know in Our Bones

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Edited from the first ten years of the online literary journal "Dark Matter: Women Witnessing," this anthology is a heartfelt and inspiring collection of written and visual responses inspired by dreams, visions, and activism, all aimed at healing our fractured relationship with the earth.
Sixty-seven authors from six countries have contributed to this anthology of 79 pieces, spanning 572 pages, divided into nine sections. 

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American Bloodlines, Reckoning with Lynch Culture combines memoir with reportage and cultural criticism to interrogate and complicate the traditional narrative about how lynch culture is created in families, communities and institutions.

Summer 1936, Owensboro Kentucky.
In just four and a half minutes, an all white, all male jury convicts Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, of the rape and murder of an elderly white woman. 
Bethea is hanged near the banks of the Ohio River in the last documented public execution in America.
Bethea's story comes to author Sonya Lea, who was born in Owensboro, through her family. She reckons with its truths and the broader implications of systemic racism, not just in the past, but in today's culture, politics and justice systems.

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Penny Allport is a poet, wordsmith, painter, teacher and mentor living in Victoria, Canada. As a life-cycle celebrant, she co-creates ceremonies and rituals with individuals, couples and groups, to weave words which serve and express the sometimes un-expressible mysteries of love, life and loss.

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I have made of myself into a long river of words, a plain flatlands meander of words looping back, looping ahead.
from Encrypted by Arleen Paré

Prolific, award-winning Canadian poet Arleen Paré joins Ingrid Rose in conversation about her books: Paper Trail (2007), Leaving Noe (2011), Lake of Two Mountains (2014), He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car (2015), The Girls with Stone Faces (2017), Earle Street (2020), First (2021), Last (2022, Chapbook), Time Out of Time (2022), Don’t Tell: Family Secrets (2022, co-edited with Donna McCart Sharkey), Absence of Wings (2024), Encrypted (2025).

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POEMS: Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale

There is a connection between the work of Canadian poets Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale. Both women have been writing poetry for most of their lives, using it as a means to understand and express their personal experiences, covering life's challenges and their responses to the natural world, day by day. Poetry is their chosen tool for transformation.

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