Van Guinn says that, “Etchings on a driveway by my childhood home in Northeast Calgary, which became the first inklings of April Snow. Fay and Edward’s childhood homes are heavily based on the surrounding Calgary neighbourhood, occupied primarily by poor immigrant families.”
Memory is the Everyday Art
Compounding. With the Poet’s curiosity
And Playwright’s eye, she makes
Commedia from Tableaux from scatterings.
She crafts Cupid and Psyche
From summer regrets–
With her lover, Desire
(or maybe, her mistress.)
April Snow made the “Calgary’s Bestselling List” for January 2026!
