Noah Cain

“The human social animal still does not have a more significant way to feel in tune with the world than to partake in the special reality of the Festival, and celebrate life in its time out of time.” —Alessandra Falassi, Festival: Definition and Morphology Peter Rindisbacher's 1821 watercolour, Winter Fishing on the Ice of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers . The calendar turns at the end of another endless Winnipeg January. The tariffs kick in. Wab stands his ground. The Canadian flag returns to...

Here’s some highlights from my year in writing and research. Selling out of my self-published poetry chapbook Educating Storm. While off work during the Alberta Teacher’s strike this October, I printed a second run of 100 books, so it’s back on sale now: https://www.noahjcain.com/product-page/educating-storm . Placing poems appearing in three great magazines this summer: The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and Contemporary Verse 2. After taking a bit of a break from submitting while I was...

Educating Storm , Noah Cain's debut chapbook, chronicles the experiences of an uncontainable fifth-grader through twelve poems, one for...