Shining Lights
December 2017
The lights along Prince Philip Drive are shining.
Brightness against the dark- whatever you’re celebrating this holiday, we wish you love, peace, and togetherness.
Sincerely,
The NQ team
Lisbon Bureau: Week 2
BY Joan Sullivan
And of course our setting is infusing the writing and imagery, in theme and topics and focus. An unusual period of rain and thunderstorms isn’t keeping us from our explorations and conversations and engagement with our exotic locale.
Letter to Joey Smallwood
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
Dear Joey: I’m still here and mixed
Mi’kmaq after all these years
You’re long dead, yet
Confederation couldn’t stop
Newfoundland’s ongoing
colonial violence.
You continued so unapologetically,
telling Ottawa there are no red Indians–