poetry

KATHRYN MOCKLER
Poetry
Companion

Honourable mention in the 1st Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

TRYNNE DELANEY
Poetry
Climate Anxiety

Understocked soy blocks are a sign of hope.

Poetry
Do You Recognize Me Without My Tomahawk?

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

Poetry
Easter Day

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

Poetry
Elegy for Photographs Not Taken

raspberry afternoons flat as the tides at White Rock, a saltwater bath, a kiss beneath the pylons, the barnacles, the greasy fish and chips

LUCY BACON
Poetry
Erasure Haiku

Honourable mention in the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
Guanacaste Journal

The Central American vacation was all-inclusive, but she brought her own guilt, just in case.

MATT RADER
Poetry
Freaks, Irregulars, Defects, Oddities

Matt Rader's poem encourages you to "love the word not the weirdo."

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
Fiercely Awake

Four poems by Vancouver Poet Laureate Evelyn Lau on aging, aching and orthotics.

Poetry
Had Me At

Honourable mention in the 1st Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

MARY MEIGS
Poetry
Keystroke

Mary Meigs wrote this piece in spring 2001 while she was recovering from a stroke, and which is reproduced here exactly as she typed it,

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
How It Began

Four poems by Vancouver Poet Laureate Evelyn Lau on love, life and death.

MARILYN BOWERING
Poetry
Hotel

It was the year of hotel rooms, the knife and the gun.

Poetry
Maria, 1878

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

Poetry
Morphing

Shall I compare thee to a summer chaos?

KAREN PRESS
Poetry
My Word

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

Poetry
Neighbo(u)rs

"And yes, you speak francais. / Do not gag too much." Neily Jennings' prize-winning erasure poetry tackles cross-cultural relations.

CARMINE STARNINO
Poetry
Next Door Café: The Poem

A poem "with cautious, slightly energy-sapped enjambments" recreates a bar's atmosphere and patrons.

JENNI B. BAKER
Poetry
Now There’s War

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

ANNIK ADEY-BABINSKI
Poetry
Now They Want a Singing Competition

Longlisted for the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

KIM SUTTELL
Poetry
Rise Up for Me Against the Evildoers

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

Poetry
Short Essay on a Tweed Cap
Poetry
Uncouth

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

Poetry
Selected Monsters

For Barbara Gowdy.