poetry

ANNIK ADEY-BABINSKI
Poetry
Now They Want a Singing Competition

Longlisted for the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

JENNI B. BAKER
Poetry
Now There’s War

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

CARMINE STARNINO
Poetry
Next Door Café: The Poem

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

Poetry
Neighbo(u)rs

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

KAREN PRESS
Poetry
My Word

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

Poetry
Morphing

Shall I compare thee to a summer chaos?

Poetry
Maria, 1878

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

MARILYN BOWERING
Poetry
Hotel

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

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
How It Began

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

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,

Poetry
Had Me At

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

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
Fiercely Awake

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

MATT RADER
Poetry
Freaks, Irregulars, Defects, Oddities

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

EVELYN LAU
Poetry
Guanacaste Journal

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

LUCY BACON
Poetry
Erasure Haiku

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

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

Poetry
Easter Day

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

Poetry
Do You Recognize Me Without My Tomahawk?

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

TRYNNE DELANEY
Poetry
Climate Anxiety

Understocked soy blocks are a sign of hope.

KATHRYN MOCKLER
Poetry
Companion

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

PATRICK GRACE
Poetry
Details

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

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

Longlisted for the 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

RENEE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR
Poetry
Children of Air India

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

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.