Arabic would’ve never been were it not for our eyes
Sarah Wolfson
Poetry
The Gravedigger
"... I remembered / the week the fireflies dissolved into crickets. / We'd just lived through the big thing ..."
Conor Kerr
Poetry
Buffalo Pound Boys
All I got is sunrises
Em Dial
Poetry
Emetophobia
bonding our sneakers / together through a fluid / no longer hers but shared
EVELYN LAU
Poetry
End Times
Distance blurred detail, so all that was visible / in the mysterious vapour were armloads of sparkle / he hauled as if from the sea
JADE WALLACE
Poetry
Drinking Game with Ghosts
I have never been hit by a car / that I could not see coming.
Jane Shi
Poetry
Knot after knot of tomorrow
Two poems by Jane Shi
Brad Cran
Poetry
2010 Handbook for Entering Canada
Brad Cran
Poetry
Today After Rain
Brad Cran
Poetry
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gray Whale, After Wallace Stevens and Ending with a Line from Rilke
Brad Cran
Poetry
Science Fiction
Brad Cran
Poetry
In Praise of Female Athletes Who Were Told No
Brad Cran
Poetry
Reading Wittgenstein
Owen Torrey
Poetry
Short Talk on Summer Ending
... You and I / tried. We tried walking down a street once in fall. / It was night, half light, we found ourselves finding / ...
Molly Cross-Blanchard
Poetry
Here's the thing
"... Blood dripped down my chin. The light / left. After, I googled what it all meant—death, / capitalism, Steffie’s stuffed bunny ..."
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Poetry
A Love Poem, Also a Physics Poem
"... I showed you / a video of faint sunsets dawning from / Ochil Hills, and my momentum when / travelling upward, against gravity ..."
IAN ADAM
Poetry
YOUNG EARLE BIRNEY IN BANFF: SEPTEMBER 1913¹
what a day!at the Basin2 dove from the tufa overhanginto the water, playing my trick ofseeming to drown, not coming up until I finish wrigglingthrough that underwater chimneyand burst into air. always startles the tourists.
DAN O'BRIEN
Poetry
The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Poet Go For a Walk in the Arctic
A series of poems about untangled seal guts and elusive hares in the Arctic tundra.
Adrienne Stevenson
Tetchy Sketch
Longlisted for the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.
ED FRYMIRE
Song of the Old Dog (Las Canciones del Perro Antiguo)
An old dog can't keep up with the young butterflies.
Karen Connelly
The Speed of Rust, or, He Marries
"You wring your heart on the beach while on the far shore landmines explode."
Susan Paddon
The Night Before She Died
The fifth and final poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive.
JEREMY STEWART
Poetry
Theory of North
"The North does not try to explain itself, but people are always trying to explain The North."
PAUL VERMEERSCH
Poetry
Tea Has Been
Paul Vermeersch filters Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” through random languages in free translation software, and then back into English.