Wanda Waterman
Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
Album: Vipassana Artists: Eric Harland – Voyager “The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.” – Eric Harland “E-Land in the house Layin? down tracks Tryin? to promote consciousness Come on . . . It’s about you. ” – Eric Harland on “Relax” Eric Harland’s roster… Read more »
Film: Nebraska Director: Alexander Payne Writer: Bob Nelson DAVID: Hey, Dad, how about we go see Mount Rushmore? WOODROW: We don’t have time to see that! DAVID: It’s just 30 minutes off the interstate. And we’re right here. WOODROW: It’s just a bunch of rocks! – Dialogue from Nebraska Woody wants to go to Nebraska… Read more »
Gillian Sze is a Montreal-based poet who studied creative writing at Concordia University and who has already achieved numerous accolades for two books of poetry, Fish Bones and The Anatomy of Clay (recommended here in the Voice). Recently she took some time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions about childhood, sensitivity, and feeding the muse. Poetry:… Read more »
Film: Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? Director: Michel Gondry “Reality is simple and it’s our task to show that.” – Noam Chomsky in Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? Once upon a time a little donkey was turned into a stone. When some children told the donkey’s parents that the stone was… Read more »
Book: A Call to Action Author: Jimmy Carter “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” – Matthew 10:16 NIV “Violence against women is the most prevalent and the most hidden injustice in our world today.” – Jim Wallis, as quoted in A… Read more »
Susan Malmstrom is an artist specializing in digitally produced photography. She grew up in California, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine, and has lived in Canada since 2004. Her life’s work manifests a sense of wonder, an insatiable curiosity, a love of memorabilia, an obsession… Read more »