At Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews intersectional writers, publishers, agents and editors from across Canada. Crow Reads is recorded on Treaty 6 territory the traditional home of the Metis, Inuit and First Nations people. Crow Reads focuses on providing a variety of perspectives and experiences across the literary landscape in Canada all with the eye to offering something new and interesting to our listeners as they think about developing literary careers.
On this episode of Crow Reads I talk with author, and publisher Luciana Erregue-Sacchi about her publishing house Laberinto Press, anthologies, and building community and claiming space in the publishing world.
Luciana is an award-winning publisher (Laberinto Press), art historian, translator, author (Of Mothers and Madonna, Polyglot 2023) and cultural worker. Luciana has presented at LitFest, Edmonton Poetry Fest, and Banff Centre. She coordinated the WGA Horizons Writers Circle. She has presented at the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University. Her work and translations have appeared in academic publications, Polyglot Magazine, AGNI, and others and she has been featured on CBC Edmonton, Radio Canada, Quill and Quire, Literary Review of Canada, Westword, and Edmonton Journal. She is an activist for freedom to read and an advocate for hyphened Canadian literature.
Laberinto Press is an independent publishing house located in Edmonton, Alberta, founded in 2020 by Argentinian-Canadian Luciana Erregue-Sacchi. The primary mandate is to publish diverse, complex literature by diaspora and hyphen-Canadian authors. The press actively seeks to bypass tokenism by focusing on deep, substantive storytelling from cultural minorities. You can find out more about the press at this link - https://laberintopress.com/
Thier latest release is Beyond the Concert Hall and you can find out more about that anthology here - https://laberintopress.com/beyond-the-concert-hall
16 Jul 2026
Adriana Onita
In this episode I talk with Adriana Oniță, poet, artist, educator, translator, and researcher with a PhD in arts-based language education about her new book, DESCÂNTEC FOR MY SPLIT TONGUE, a collection that gathers English-Romanian poems that travel across generations, homelands, and dreamscapes to ask: what do we lose when we lose a language? We also talk about the importance of multilingual writing and publishing and the reclaiming of heritage language.
28 Apr 2026
Anna Veprinska - Wound Archive
In honour of National Poetry Month, in this episode, I speak with poet and scholar Anna Veprinska about her masterfully crafted poetry collection Wound Archive. We discuss the completeness of fragments and the resistance to closure, the use of white space and punctuation, and the editing process within compression.
Anna Veprinska is the author of the poetry collections Wound Archive (Porcupine's Quill, 2026), Bonememory (University of Calgary Press, 2025), and Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas Press, 2014). She is also the author of the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She was a finalist twice for the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, has been shortlisted twice for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence, and was a winner of the ChinookPoetry Contest. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
Wound Archive is a collection of minimalist poems that archives the wound left by the concurrent ending of a relationship and the beginning of a chronic invisible illness. These poems comprise a fragmented archive in which woundedness turns language—figuratively and at times formally—upside down. The symbol of the wound recurs throughout, punctuating the ways both heartbreak and illness are experienced in the body.
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