Poetry

Greyscale photograph of Jim Johnstone superimposed on an orange background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Heaven Spot

May 9, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Jim Johnstone

A line, a lip, a like- / ness reclaimed

Greyscale portrait of Luke Hathaway superimposed against a green background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Ballad

April 27, 2022 - by Luke Hathaway

after David Thomson

Greyscale portrait of Oubah Osman against a blue background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Bookmark

April 19, 2022 - by Oubah Osman

The past moves me / into previously / occupied bedrooms

Grey scale portrait of Lorna Goodison against a pink background.

March/April 2022 / Poetry

Quasheba’s Lament

March 29, 2022March 30, 2022 - by Lorna Goodison

I taste my own salt blood / and remind myself I am still alive

Greyscale photograph of Tolu Oloruntoba superimposed onto a graphic yellow background.

March/April 2022 / Poetry

Heel Poem / Black-Hooded

March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 - by Tolu Oloruntoba

I want a crane poem to / deconstruct the sarcophagus-heavy helmet and corset, the luminescent poster-sun on the wall

Greyscale photograph of Gary Barwin against a green background.

January/February 2022 / Poetry

Something Else

January 20, 2022 - by Gary Barwin

your urn was / exactly as you’d wanted

January/February 2022 / Poetry

The Climbing Vine

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Karen Solie

the structure’s joints creaked / and the muscles stood out in the nails

Greyscale photograph of Bruce Taylor against a blue background.

December 2021 / Poetry

I’ve Had a Good Life. I’ve Been Water-Skiing

December 9, 2021 - by Bruce Taylor

Was all of this enough? / I won a game, I won a game again

A photo of poet Molly Peacock against a red background

December 2021 / Poetry

Today My Task Is the Codicil

November 23, 2021 - by Molly Peacock

I’ve had my pomegranate life. / Seeds sluicing red . . . Rose affection

Black and white portrait of Kayla Czaga against a green background.

December 2021 / Poetry

Coho

November 18, 2021 - by Kayla Czaga

My father knelt down at the river’s edge / to unhook it. He cupped it in his palms

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