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With the immortal Xenotext, poetry gets stranger than fiction

March 31, 2016March 30, 2016
Lee van der Kamp
The “world’s best-selling poet,” University of Calgary’s Christian Bök, is hard at work on The Xenotext, a project for which he’s used genetic modification to implant an enciphered poem into...

If he be worthy: I Am Thor a thundering tale of rock stardom

March 10, 2016
Lee van der Kamp
“What does it take? A balancing act on top of the Empire State Building? Jumping off of the Empire State Building? Jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge? I don’t...

A bow to Bowie

January 21, 2016January 20, 2016
Lee van der Kamp
During the renaissance, before medicine was all that reliable, an important concept in the western world was the Ars Moriendi, or “the art of dying.” Because death was always an...

Jack Hodgins theatre adaptation rolls full steam ahead

December 4, 2015
Lee van der Kamp
Theatre Inconnu’s latest offering is a brand-new reworking of a West Coast classic. Spit Delaney’s Island reimagines the title story of Jack Hodgins’ 1976 collection of the same name, now...

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