City of remaining maples, snuffed neon, pensioners ruminating over donuts.

Paul Vermeersch filters Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” through random languages in free translation software, and then back into English.

"The North does not try to explain itself, but people are always trying to explain The North."

Found poetry from Pillsbury Kitchens' Family Cookbook.

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

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

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Longlisted for the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

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.

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A series of poems about untangled seal guts and elusive hares in the Arctic tundra.

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Longlisted for the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

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An old dog can't keep up with the young butterflies.

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"You wring your heart on the beach while on the far shore landmines explode."

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

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Second prize winner of the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

“his skull for an inkwell / his blood for ink / and a bayonet for a pen"

“Some phrases / literally could not be said.”

For Barbara Gowdy.

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

Third prize winner of the 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.