The educator and writer Holly Flauto discusses their debut poetry collection Permission to Settle (Anvil Press, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

Permission to Settle by Holly Flauto (Anvil Press, 2024). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Permission to Settle

Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Holly Flauto joins me now. As we read in Holly’s debut poetry collection, Permission to Settle, she chronicles the travails of applying for Permanent Residency in Canada, and takes all the anxieties, hopes, memories of the past, interrogations of identity, as well as reflections of home, family, history, and memory, and a lot more, and works them out as responses to otherwise mundane or objective forms or questions on forms. It’s a marvelous way to reflect what’s deeply personal amidst questions that are impersonal. The collection is a gift as Holly bares a great deal, some that’s deeply personal, and allows the reader to reflect on their own questions of self between the poems in the book. The collection also offers insights into Holly’s love of language. Holly Flauto is a poet, storyteller, learner, and instructor. Her fiction and creative writing has previously been published in The Ex-Puritan, Joyland, and The Rusty Toque. They also perform as Stella Palermo on local story and poetry slam stages. Visit www.hollyflauto.com for more. The collection is published by Anvil Press. We spoke last week. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Holly Flauto; Holly, good morning.

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