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Damian Rogers

Damian Rogers is a former poetry editor at The Walrus and the author of the forthcoming memoir An Alphabet for Joanna. This essay is adapted from a speech she gave at The Walrus Talks Living Better last fall in Toronto.
Illustration of an elderly woman sitting in a chair with her back to the viewer. She is surrounded by animals––an owl, a leopard, a turtle, a goose, and a dog, which she pets while it sits at her feet.
April 2020 / First Person

What I’ve Learned from What My Mother Has Forgotten

March 19, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

My mother’s dementia made me think about my own future in a new way

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Photograph by John Goodhew
Arts & Culture

Reflections on Two Years as Walrus Poetry Editor

January 4, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Damian Rogers

When reading submissions, I listened for a voice that sounded singular

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Books

A Letter to Leonard Cohen

April 19, 2016April 26, 2017 - by Damian Rogers

The Walrus’ poetry editor explains how the rhythms of a poem smooth the roughness of a life

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Books

October Verses

September 22, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

The Poetry Editor’s Note

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Books

September Verses

August 21, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

The Poetry Editor’s Note

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Summer Verses

June 17, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Damian Rogers

Introducing the Poetry Editor’s Note, which provides context to poems published in the magazine

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Illustration by Benoit Tardif
January/February 2013 / Poetry

The Crossroads

December 17, 2012June 22, 2016 - by Damian Rogers

The devil will open his mouth and invite you in. Carry a chicken bone, or a lion’s paw. Prepare a pot of hot soup. Feed him and you’re off the …

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January/February 2012 / Poetry

The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness

January 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Damian Rogers

When he was thirty-eight years old, he found himself in a stranger’s basement confronted by a calendar that had stopped dead on the day he was born. He became the …

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Dream of the Last Shaker

January 11, 2012March 8, 2019 - by Damian Rogers
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July/August 2011 / Poetry

The Performer Speaks to Her Perfect Apprentice Beneath the Arches

July 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Damian Rogers

Jillian Tamaki We asked five celebrated writers to devise five guidelines for composing a short story or poem. They all traded lists—and played by the rules. Five rules by Michael …

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