The Lyre

International Spies

2024-04-09T01:50:28-07:00

The Old Grey Box

2024-04-17T15:56:29-07:00

A tale of a suicidal young woman and the events that unfolded in the years leading up to her hospitalization.

Closet Confessions

2024-04-16T22:21:09-07:00

Last I Heard You Say

2024-05-20T19:06:51-07:00

Diane tries to cope with her grief by cherishing what remains of her beloved companion's odd hobby.

CONTENT WARNING: allusions to death, suicide

The Unimagined

2024-05-09T11:30:36-07:00

An exploration of the bounds of language and its effects on my cultural identity.

Interview with Jens Zimmermann

2024-10-26T18:21:10-07:00

Dr. Jens Zimmermann is a German-Canadian philosopher and J.I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College. As the author of Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction, he held a lecture titled “Gadamer, Ricoeur and the Future of Philosophical Hermeneutics” at SFU. Hosted by the Department of World Languages and Literatures, the lecture focused on how we can use the art of hermeneutics to interpret literature and our identities of being human.

Interview with Jin-me Yoon

2024-10-26T18:10:53-07:00

The Lyre 15 interview with Canadian contemporary artist Jin-me Yoon.

The Continuity of Parks

2024-05-13T19:58:19-07:00

Through a story inside a story, fact and fiction collide. In the frame story, a man has just finished some "urgent business" in town and is returning to his home estate while reading a novel. Two lovers who gather in a lodge in the woods to destroy "that other body" are the subject of the novel he is reading, The Embedded Story. When one of the novel's protagonists, the embedded tale, inserts himself into the frame story's reality, the narrative's structure is disrupted.

I hate the weather in Taipei

2024-06-23T22:42:50-07:00

Translation of song by Ludy Lin.

Life rolls on

2024-04-17T00:09:31-07:00

The Moral of the Story

2024-05-14T12:56:33-07:00

Pardon

2024-04-16T21:34:53-07:00

the healthy, stable love, always there, come rain or shine ;

the same people who would cry when I'm gone.

I hope you’ll forgive me, sometimes I forget about you.

Perdido en el tiempo y la tierra

2024-04-16T21:52:35-07:00

This poem is written about the feeling of being unsure of where to go and who to be. Where a person is at the precipice of being their future self and they don't know who that is yet.

Glosa sin Cabeza

2024-05-25T21:27:33-07:00

You and I

2024-05-12T12:50:35-07:00

Sleepy Dahlia

2024-03-19T21:20:13-07:00

"Sleepy Dahlia" follows the journey of acknowledging and accepting one’s identity as a whole. The speaker accepts damaged pieces of themselves as sites of growth and possible blooming. The poem challenges identity directly and exposes raw secrets, shedding light on the hidden. All is on the record to be heard, seen, and loved.

a winged victory

2024-05-04T09:27:04-07:00

Kvitka on the Tongue

2024-04-16T22:02:27-07:00

A poem about my mother - on the beauty of aging.

Dwindling

2024-04-16T22:10:45-07:00

What did you teach me?

2024-05-09T11:29:41-07:00

Blank Eclipse

2024-04-17T15:57:25-07:00

Countering All Odds

2024-06-17T10:51:06-07:00

Flag for Review

2024-04-16T22:08:49-07:00

An experimental piece about internet censorship and personal privacy.

Paper

2024-05-11T11:58:45-07:00

a fragile canvas, but a canvas nonetheless

Thieves of Marrow

2024-03-26T21:39:18-07:00

twelve suspended

2024-05-20T19:06:32-07:00

the immortal memory of trees

2024-04-25T07:29:25-07:00

sometimes i think you'd make the better Christian

2024-04-08T14:12:34-07:00

First Date

2024-04-04T16:01:45-07:00

On My Way Out

2024-04-29T16:27:31-07:00

After Hours

2024-04-16T21:42:39-07:00

This shoot came togethe last minute to show convey a someone letting loose and letting go after a long work day. Most of us can relate to that feeling!

Rough Edges

2024-04-26T14:45:46-07:00

GO OUTSIDE

2024-05-19T14:23:50-07:00

The World

2024-04-24T17:57:24-07:00

05.08.18

2024-04-03T09:57:55-07:00

These three stills were selected from a series of 100 timer-based photos taken as I performed. The third image was after the performance concluded.

East Van Home

2024-04-17T20:30:45-07:00

A documentation of a classic urban scene in East Vancouver.

Z Memoirs of Spring

2024-04-16T22:24:16-07:00

Just like waves, memories come and go in the sea of time and life.

Liminal Space

2024-04-16T22:42:12-07:00

Finding my voice

2024-04-16T22:13:45-07:00

Stop If Oncoming Traffic

2024-04-18T22:57:44-07:00

Bullet holes mangle a sign that reads "Stop If Oncoming Traffic."

bite

2024-04-16T21:45:53-07:00

Angelfish

2024-04-04T21:32:03-07:00

Graduating Class

2024-04-17T15:57:00-07:00

Abstraction

2024-04-24T21:40:31-07:00