Carduelis: Behavioral Interview

Abstract

Read the full poem on Canadian Literature’s website at https://canlit.ca/article/carduelis-behavioral-interview/.

Author Bio:

Tolu Oloruntoba is the author of the Anstruther Press chapbook Manubrium, shortlisted for the 2020 bpNichol Chapbook Award. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, PRISM International, Columbia Journal, Obsidian, and The Maynard, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, while his short fiction has appeared in translation in Dansk PEN Magazine. He practiced medicine before his current work managing projects for health authorities in British Columbia. After a somewhat itinerant life in Nigeria and the United States, he emigrated to the Greater Vancouver Area, where he lives with his family in the territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, and Kwantlen First Nations.