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Volume MTL

Remarkable poet Mark Nowak and Montreal-based poet and editor Michael Nardone discuss the contours of Nowak’s singular literary production over these last two decades. The discussion will focus on Nowak’s ongoing body of worker poetry – represented in his groundbreaking books such as Shut Up Shut Down and Coal Mountain Elementary – to open up discussion on Nowak’s most recent essay, Social Poetics, which documents the imaginative militancy and emergent

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  Filling Gaps is a speculative typeface that consists of reimagined Chinese ideograms which all have diverse visual forms, unique sounds, and tell a story of their creation. As a trans Teochew artist / activist / designer, Le Lin explores different ways in which typography can illustrate certain aspects of our lives, either through unlearning or relearning it. What are the origin stories of the words we use daily? How

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