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New Books in PoetryRayanne Haines, "What Kind of Daughter" (Frontenac House Press, 2024)In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews acclaimed Alberta poet Rayanne Haines about her book, What Kind of Daughter (Frontenac House Press, 2024).
What Kind of Daughter? is a poetic memoir by Rayanne Haines that considers identity and gender expectations while exploring the public perception of the space between the spaces we inhabit during periods of grieving, whether that grieving is based in loss of self or the loss of another. In this hybrid collection of poetry and essay, Haines reflects on her life growing up in rural Alberta, and considers the loss of her mother to can...
2025-12-0336 min
Moving RadioWOMEN WHO DIG - Anna Kuelken InterviewChristian Zyp interviews Anna Kuelken (director) about her new documentary WOMEN WHO DIG. See the film at Metro CInema on Thursday October 23rd at 6:45 pm. Join Anna Kuelken, Trina Moyles (author of the book WOMEN WHO DIG that inspired the movie) and the film’s powerhouse cast—five female farmers and land stewards from Western Canada—for a thought provoking discussion on the making of this project as well as vital themes of gender equality, social justice, food sovereignty and climate change, facilitated by poet and author Rayanne Haines.WOMEN WHO DIG showcases Canadian women on a journe...
2025-10-2031 min
Research Recast(ed)Art, Identity, and Care with Rayanne HainesOn today’s episode, Rayanne Haines dives into her creative work examining women’s rights and the complexities of caregiving. We discuss the emotional impact of loss and the power of art to spark conversations around these challenging themes.
2024-09-2626 min
The AudPodEpisode 02: Rayanne HainesIn this episode, Bree welcomes Rayanne Haines (she/her), a poet, writer, Assisstant Professor, and podcaster. Rayanne is the host of the Crow Reads Podcast, President for the League of Canadian Poets, director of She, The River (2020), author of the GUARDIAN SERIES, STAINED WITH THE COLOURS OF SUNDAY MORNING (2018), TELL THE BIRDS YOUR BODY IS NOT A GUN (2021) and the upcoming WHAT KIND OF DAUGHTER? (2024). They discuss Rayanne's career as an arts organizer, the poetics of grief and motherhood, and the burden of care. CW: This episode mentions suicide and suicidal ideation. Canadian Suicide Crisis Help...
2024-09-1029 min
Crow Reads PodcastLeilei Chen
In this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines speaks to poet, scholar, and translator Leilei Chen about her 2023 poetry collection, I Have Forsaken Heaven & Earth, But Never Forsaken You (Frontenac House). They discuss Chen’s history as a writer, translator and scholar, the act of betrayal in translation, the unknowingness and ambiguity of translation, publishing and editorial work, and the hopes for the future of translation in Canadian Publishing.
2024-02-0558 min
Writers' Guild of Alberta PodcastControversy At Noon: The ethics of writing on social issuesThe ethics of writing on social issues can be a complicated topic of conversation for writers: What does it mean, really? Are certain issues off-limits for particular writers? What are the types of issues that fall under this very broad theme? How can we strive to write characters and narratives that feel meaningful, informed, and appropriate to the story we’re trying to tell? Join our group of panellists as they discuss the ethics of writing on social issues during our first Controversy @ Noon panel in 2024.
About The Panellists
Dr. Jenna Butler (she/her)
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Dr. Jenna Butler (sh...
2024-01-2558 min
Crow Reads PodcastAstrid BlodgettIn this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne speaks to author Astrid Blodgett about her 2023 short story collection, This is How we Disappear, (UofA Press). The collection explores the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp prose and unexpected plot twists move relatable characters through vivid outdoor settings and interior depths. Haines and Blodgett speak about storytelling techniques including ambiguity and expectation, the impact of writing setting and place, consciously focusing on creating relatable characters without deliberately considering empathy vs sympathy and writing retreats and their impact on creativity.
2023-11-2444 min
Crow Reads PodcastNatalie Meisner
In this month’s podcast Rayanne Haines speaks with playwright and poet, Natalie Meisner about her book, It Begins in Salt, a masterful collection of poems that wander the halls of an ocean blue-collar life while rummaging the heart spaces of growing up, and evolves into mothering, labours, and loves. This is a poetry book for poets evidenced in the staccato of line details, the rhythms that echo the maritime waves, and the sounds shaped and formed by a studied writer.
Among more, they talk about craft and obedience, how performance shapes writing, the choice to write as...
2023-10-0648 min
The Poetry JointThe Poetry Joint - Episode September 20, 2023Poetry Pathways
Poems by Michelle Soon, Robert Frost, Robert W. Service, Rayanne Haines, Pablo Neruda, Gary Snyder. Narration by Xe Sands, Scott Alderson. Conversation with Clara Joseph, Natalie Meisner, Rayanne Haines.
2023-09-2200 min
Crow Reads PodcastShima Robinson AKA DwennimmenIn this month’s podcast Shima Robinson AKA Dwennimmen speaks to us, among other things, about finding your place in the poetry community, supporting the community while advocating for artist payment, self-publishing and self-creation, and finding the intent of the poem through performance.
Amiskwaciwâskahikan
(Edmonton - Treaty 6) born poet and spoken word artist Shima Robinson embodies, with every poem, the ancient meaning of her chosen pen name. Dwennimmen is the name of an ancient African Adinkra symbol, which means strength, humility, learning and wisdom. It is no surprise, then, that this vete...
2023-06-2251 min
Crow Reads PodcastAli Bryan
For Ali Bryan, writing is an act of imagination performed as daily ritual. For this Calgary based author, character and plot speak as one device, and she rebels against labels that diminish the value of her writing and use of humour as a tool towards story development. This award-winning author writes family the way we live family, with no judgments or pre-conceived notions of what the characters will do in the moment. In our conversation we discuss character development both from re-visiting characters like in her new novel Coq, and the understanding of character as plot. We talk about...
2023-05-231h 05
Crow Reads PodcastMargaret MacphersonIn this episode, Rayanne speaks with Margaret Macpherson about her new book, Tracking the Caribou Queen: Memoir of a Settler Girlhood. The conversation looks at the ways the memoir touches on the racism deeply embedded in the North in the 60's and 70's and her understanding of it as a child and now in self-reflecting as an adult. Macpherson discuss, with a frankness, stepping outside of her fragility, to speak as a white women, who was clear about her culpability. We discuss the framing of the memoir, the authors fear of taking up space, the violence within the book...
2023-03-2752 min
Crow Reads PodcastEmily RiddleIn this month’s podcast Rayanne Haines speaks with Emily Riddle about her debut poetry collection, The Big Melt. The collection is rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life events. It examines what it means to repair kinship, contend with fraught history, go home and contemplate prairie ndn utopia in the era of late capitalism and climate change. Part memoir, part research project, this collection draws on Riddle’s experience working in Indigenous governance and her affection for confessional poetry in crafting feminist works that are firmly rooted in place. In their conversation Emily and Rayanne speak about kins...
2023-02-1635 min
Crow Reads PodcastLeslie GreentreeIn this episode, Rayanne Haines speaks with author Leslie Greentree about character vs plot driven stories, how short story and novel writing are shaped, writing flawed characters and controversial stories, and about career longevity in an increasingly competitive market.
Leslie Greentree’s short story collection, Not The Apocalypse I was Hoping For, is a masterful collection that shapeshifts through her characters’ lives. It’s a not-so-subtle commentary on current politics, the pervasiveness of social media and our obsession with having or holding a platform, and the fallacy of human nature.
2022-12-131h 01
Crow Reads PodcastSandra S.G. WongIn this episode, Rayanne speaks with author Sandra S.G. Wong about writing the lived experience, the layers of research and character development that come with crime writing, ambiguity and suspense, and how women characters are perceived and approached in novel writing. In her latest novel, Wong, approaches family dynamics while also writing an “An unusual blend of mystery, domestic suspense, and thriller with a powerful dose of social commentary.”
Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across genres, including the cross-genre Lola Starke novels, Crescent City short stories, and the bestselling standalone suspense nove...
2022-11-231h 00
Crow Reads PodcastSkylar KayIn this episode, Rayanne speaks to Skylar Kay about her debut poetry collection, Transcribing Moonlight. Her poetry explores how surrounding environments reflect and mirror human experiences, especially her experiences as a queer transgender woman. Rayanne and Skylar discuss the Haibun form, healing through poetry and reclaiming the feminine figure of the moon for Trans Women.
2022-09-0736 min
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureImpact: Women Writing After Concussion by Jane Cawthorne (editor), E. D. Morin (editor)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impact: Women Writing After Concussion Author: Jane Cawthorne (editor), E. D. Morin (editor) Narrator: Tara Yelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked...
2022-08-0105 min
Crow Reads PodcastJason PurcellIn this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews Jason Purcell, a writer and musician from amiskwaciwaskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, Jason writes at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection.
In this conversation Jason reads from Swollening and talks about teasing out metaphorical spaces, writing the external and internal violence in the body, the parameters of giving and hiding/revealing within the practice of vulnerability as a...
2022-05-241h 05
Crow Reads PodcastUchechukwu Peter UmezurikeIn this moving, joyful and vulnerable episode of Crow Reads, I talk with author and postdoctoral fellow, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike about his short story collection Double Walhala, Double Trouble, how the tenderness of Shakespeare and other romantic poets brought him to poetry during dark times in Nigeria’s history, the value of family, mentorship and relationships in both African and Alberta literary communities, inhabiting and reflecting character realities, and, how poetry, story and being part of literary communities has helped him navigate anti-blackness in North America while continuing following his impulse for joy.
2022-02-081h 05
Crow Reads PodcastPremee MohamedFor this episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne speaks with Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author, Premee Mohamed about her novel, The Annual Migration of Clouds, genre labels, climate change, finding an agent and how to know when your book is done!
The Annual Migration of Clouds starts off by telling us - The world is nothing like it once was: climate disasters have wracked the continent, causing food shortages, ending industry, and leaving little behind. Then came Cad, mysterious mind-altering fungi that invade the bodies of the now scattered citizenry. Reid, a young woman who carries this p...
2021-11-2554 min
Crow Reads PodcastTrina MoylesIn September’s episode of Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines talks with Trina Moyles, author, writer, and wildfire lookout about her latest book. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest, is a memoir about Moyles four summers working alone at a remote lookout tower in Canada’s northern boreal forest, offering an eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire. During the conversation, the two talk about Moyles new book, the freedom one finds in isolation, living and working as an artist in rural settings, how social justice sits in her work and how bears play...
2021-09-2856 minCrow Reads PodcastTitilope SonugaIn August’s episode, Rayanne interviews Titilope Sonuga about her new role as Edmonton’s ninth Poet Laureate, the act of shapeshifting as a writer, artist and women, and the importance of hope and healing through poetry in these times. Sonuga’s most recent book, This is How We Disappear is described as an exploration of the physical and emotional disappearance of women and a celebration of the magic of shapeshifting as an act of survival too. In the collection, she deftly uses storytelling as a lens to critique injustice and offer hope.
Titilope Sonuga is a writer...
2021-08-271h 08
Crow Reads PodcastMicheline MaylorIn July’s episode, Rayanne interviews Dr. Micheline Maylor. Dr. Maylor was Calgary’s Poet Laureate from 2016-18. Her latest poetry collection is The Bad Wife (U of A Press, 2021). The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling the reader into a startling web of sensuality, guilt, resentment, and pleasure, this collection asks: what if you set off a bomb in your own house?
During this podcast, Micheline Maylor speaks about elev...
2021-07-3047 minCrow Reads PodcastEllen KartzIn today’s episode of Crow Reads, our first podcast in partnership with Read Alberta and under our new name, we speak with Ellen Kartz, poet and small press publisher. Ellen and I talk about lived experiences as catalysts for change, chasing and catching dreams, the social landscape evolving conversations and creating dialogue within Canadian publishing, and om mani padme hum.
Born and raised in Edmonton, Ellen lived in Calgary for four years while completing her Bachelor of Arts degree. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Br...
2021-06-3051 min
Crow Reads PodcastMarilyn DumontIt is National Indigenous History month and I’m delighted to share this conversation between myself and Metis scholar and poet Marilyn Dumont. During this episode, we talk about discovery of self and place, colonization and survival, the evolution of identity, the strength of Indigenous narratives as part of honouring healing and witnessing through story vs settler shame, and the importance of being you in your writing.
A professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Marilyn Dumont is a Métis writer and scholar and is the author of four collections of poe...
2021-06-0153 minCrow Reads PodcastAndrea ThompsonIn this episode with spoken word poet, advocate and educator and Andrea Thompson, we talk about Oral Culture, Empowerment through poetry, Mental Health, Gatekeeping and Authenticity, and Powerful Black Artist Movements. It was hard to stop talking!
Andrea has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. In 2005 her spoken word album, One, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, in 2009 she was the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s Poet of Honour, and in 2019 her poetry album, Soulorations helped earn her the League of Canadian Poets’ Golden Beret Award. Thompson is co-author of the...
2021-04-151h 11
Crow Reads PodcastJade WallaceIn this month's episode, I talk with Author, Editor and Academic, Jade Wallace. Jade Wallace's poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in journals internationally, including This Magazine, Canadian Literature, The Stockholm Review, and elsewhere. They are the reviews editor for CAROUSEL Magazine, an organizing member of Draft Reading Series, an M.A. student in Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, an a founding member of MA|DE, a collaborative writing entity. Wallace is the author of several chapbooks, most recently A Barely Concealed Design (Puddles of Sky Press 2020) and A Trip to the ZZOO (Collusion Books 2020...
2021-03-1553 min
Crow Reads PodcastLuciana ErregueThis month's episode features Luciana Erregue. Luciana is the editor/owner of Laberinto Press, an art historian, academic, and writer. She is a Banff Centre Literary Arts Alumni, a former Edmonton Arts Council Artist in Residence, and a recipient of the EAC Cultural Diversity in the Arts Grant. Her work has been published nationally and internationally and showcased at literary festivals. Luciana also maintains her blog SpectatorCurator. In our conversation we discuss othering, how and why Luciana started her own press, using wit and humour in writing, and the emotional burdens placed on women in the writing world.
2021-02-1552 minCrow Reads PodcastAyesha ChatterjeeFor our first episode we speak with poet and editor Ayesha Chatterjee. Chatterjee is the author of two poetry collections, The Clarity of Distance, and Bottles and Bones. Her work has appeared in journals across the world and been translated into French and Slovene. Chatterjee is past president of the League of Canadian Poets and current chair of the League’s Feminist Caucus. She is also poetry advisor to Exile magazine, a Canadian quarterly dedicated to the visual and literary arts. Born and raised in India, Ayesha Chatterjee has lived in England, the USA and Germany and now calls To...
2021-01-1553 min
The Eat More Barbecue Podcast103. The BBQ BossWelcome to Episode 103 of the podcast!
Original Air Date: June 10, 2020
The Eat More Barbecue Podcast is a proud part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. This week’s network shoutout goes to Modern Manhood. Host German Villegas brings his listeners a series of interviews aimed at understanding the many different views of masculinity.
Visit www.albertapodcastnetwork.com for links to Modern Manhood and all the other great shows on the network.
If you’re interested in joining in on the Supper Challenge, you can follow @supperchallenge on Instagram and use #supperchallenge on your posts. Follow the feed for each...
2020-06-1022 min
Mess Hall Podcast123 Vegetarian "Meat"Welcome to the Mess Hall Podcast, part of the @albertapodnet powered by @atbfinancial.
Today Avery and Lena try six plant-based meats from The Very Good Butchers and discuss the history of meat analogues.
With Pod Power, ATB is making it possible for us to amplify the voices of Albertans and Alberta podcasters. This episode, we’re giving a Pod Power shout out to:
LET’S GET LIT
LET’S GET LIT is a poetry podcast presented by the Writers Guild of Alberta.
In each episode, hosts Rayanne Haines and Matthew Ste...
2020-05-1325 min
The Eat More Barbecue PodcastPorky FatStacksWelcome to Episode 91 of the podcast!
Original Air Date: April 15, 2020
The Eat More Barbecue Podcast is a proud part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. This week’s network shoutout goes to Kyle Marshall and Creative Block. Listen in as Kyle interviews artists and entrepreneurs about where they came from, what they’re doing now and where they want to go.
Visit www.albertapodcastnetwork.com for links to this show and all the other great shows on the network.
Be sure to visit www.seatgiant.ca for tickets to all the hottest sporting events, concerts and theatre. Use the...
2020-04-1537 min
Putting It TogetherBeing Alive – Company (with Eric Matthew Richardson)This is what its all been leading to. Being Alive is the culmination of the entire show. Eric Matthew Richardson returns to discuss being held too tight and why Kyle is sitting in his chair.Eric's website: http://www.ericmatthewrichardson.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/TheEMRMusicMultitudes of Amys: https://youtu.be/CAjcuVdOvE4Happily Ever After: https://youtu.be/bMhS3Rw5cxMZelda: Ocarina of Time opening credits song: https://youtu.be/F9ohCKS_LUMAdrian Lester's version of Being Alive from the Donmar Wareshouse production: https://youtu...
2020-04-081h 24
Writers' Guild of Alberta PodcastMarch 4- Pierrette RequierCo-Hosts Rayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic parlent avec Pierrette Requier, author of DETAILS FROM THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE (Frontenac House, 2009) and Edmonton's 6th Poet Laureate. As we sip a Merlot by Bartier Bros. paired with Pierrette's poetry, we discuss bilingualism, motherhood, and the upcoming braided poetry event: SHE, THE RIVER.
2020-03-041h 13
Writers' Guild of Alberta PodcastJan 24. Let's Get Lit: Mary PinkoskiRayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic talk with Mary Pinkoski, Edmonton's fifth Poet Laureate and the 2019 Metro Federation Regional Writer in Residence. As they sip the Glenora Breakfast Blend tea from Acquired Taste Tea Company paired with Mary's own bold poetry, they discuss oddly inspiring motivational posters, the value of museums, and the power of the spoken word.
2019-01-241h 06
Overdue Finds21 Best of 2018The New Year has arrived! In the first episode of 2019, Bryce sits down with fellow EPLers Allison DaSilva and Nancy Sheng to talk about the best (and not so great) books, movies, music, and video games from 2018. Tune in to find out their picks and learn why Mr. Rogers would be very proud of Nancy's make-believe skills. Our show notes on all the items that we discussed can be found on epl.ca. Be sure to also check out our blog that features some of the top "overdue finds" of 2018 from our hosts and past g...
2019-01-0457 min
Writers' Guild of Alberta PodcastOct 17. Lets Get Lit: Lisa MartinThe Writers' Guild of Alberta is happy to present Let's Get Lit: A Drunk Poetry Podcast. Edmonton poets Rayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic talk with guest poet Lisa Martin about her poetry and wine pairing. Lisa's latest book is Believing is Not the Same as Being Saved. Published by University of Alberta Press. It was shortlisted for an Alberta Literary Award for poetry as well as the Edmonton Book Prize.
2018-10-181h 07
Overdue Finds15 Back in Shepherds' TimeIn this latest episode, Bryce and Kim welcome Edmonton author Rayanne Haines and official friend of the show Kate Gibson. They chat about everything from some of their favourite kick-ass heroines to which kind of wine would be paired with the show. Rayanne shares her story about getting a book deal with a New York publisher and some of the amazing poets here in Edmonton. Plus, Kim has a major announcement that will surprise all the listeners. Visit EPL.ca for a complete list of everything discussed in this episode. We would love to hear f...
2018-10-1256 min
Overdue FindsBonus Episode 1 - Comic Expo interviews with Courtney Loberg & Jeff MartinHey, it's a bonus episode of Overdue Finds! In the first of a series of bonus episodes, Bryce and Kim will bring you interviews with some comic book artists who were at the Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo. In this first set of interviews Bryce and EPL's comic expert Amie Wright chatted with Edmonton comic artists Courtney Loberg and Jeff Martin. Learn about Courtney's role as Happy Harbor's Comics artist in residence and how she just started at EPL. Plus, get the scoop on how Jeff got started in comics after being a teacher! Visit epl.ca for...
2018-10-0724 min
Overdue Finds14 A Podcast About PodcastsKim and Bryce are joined by fellow EPLer and self confessed "Overdue Finds superfan" Vicky Varga to chat about podcasting and some of our favourite shows. You'll hear all about the Overdue Finds origin story plus learn about shows that cover everything from Dungeons & Dragons to Watergate. You'll also be shocked to learn that there's a true crime podcast that Kim doesn't like! Visit epl.ca for a complete list of everything that we talk about in this episode. We would love to hear from our listeners so if you have any comments about the s...
2018-09-281h 00