poetry

CARIN MAKUZ
Poetry
Guide to Better Cooking

Found poetry from Pillsbury Kitchens' Family Cookbook.

SUE GOYETTE
Poetry
Cooked to Tears

We had laughed at first. At the thought. Like it was a joke. Imagine, the ocean basting us.

Brad Cran
Poetry
In Praise of Female Athletes Who Were Told No
ZACHARIAH WELLS
Poetry
Canada, More or Less

Zachariah Wells defines Canada as a land of "vegans and seal-clubbers, loggers and tree-huggers" in this sardonic poem.

Poetry
Doggrel

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

LORI MARTÍNEZ
Poetry
Moon Hell

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

JENNIFER GRIFFIN
Poetry
Besieged

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Brad Cran
Poetry
2010 Handbook for Entering Canada
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.

ANDREA BENNETT
Poetry
Adorno, Sarasota

Theodor Adorno visits andrea bennett in the bathtub; bennett visits her nana in Sarasota.

SAM HELMER
Poetry
A Family Gathering

Second prize winner of the 1st Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

JULIE PAUL
Poetry
Advice

A word of advice from Julie Paul: "Make shit up."

Poetry
A Long Time Before We Even Asked

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

MARK PETRIE
Poetry
Always the Procreant Urge of the World

First prize winner of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

GILLIAN JEROME
Poetry
Apiary of Underclothes

This poem was first published in Geist 70 and now in the 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition.

Poetry
Amnesiac

“Thank goodness history isn’t all goblets and tapestries.”

Poetry
Belaia Dacha

The second poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive.

FRANK BELTRANO
Poetry
22 Tofu for Who are You on the Way to Heaven

Second prize winner of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Gregory Betts
Poetry
Boycott Canada

Gregory Betts examines boycott culture in Canada through the lens of social media and produces a found poem of collected internet comments that records the world threatening to negate itself.

Poetry
Chekhov’s Sister, 1873

The first poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive.

JERAMY DODDS
Poetry
CANADÆ

Jeramy Dodds rewrites the Canadian national anthem and points out that the only difference between hockey and heroin is that with hockey you shoot before you score.

RENEE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR
Poetry
Children of Air India

Two poems from "Children of Air India" by Renee Sarojini Saklikar.

KAREN MASSEY
Poetry
Chin Up, Alice B, /w Love from Gertrude

Longlisted for the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

PATRICK GRACE
Poetry
Details

Third prize winner of the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.