Canadian poetry

May 2023 / Poetry

Invaders

April 25, 2023April 24, 2023 - by Alex Boyd

Returning from the mall with my mother, I’d freeze, / there being no polite way to wake him

Black and white photo of Ricardo Sternberg on an orange background.

March/April 2023 / Poetry

Aubade

April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 - by Ricardo Sternberg

Was it within the song / or within himself

December 2022 / Poetry

November Run

December 8, 2022 - by Richard Sanger

and now you hang on my shoulder / as I lead the way, taking you on, pressing the pace

Poet Michael Lista against a red backdrop

November 2022 / Poetry

The Bar in Hell

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 - by Michael Lista

Just pick a stranger, and do the human dance, / Wagering your lost soul on your last romance

A man wearing a checkered blazer, glasses, and a fedora smiles and stares downward, against a bright pink background.

Poetry / September/October 2022

Kettle

September 9, 2022 - by James Pollock

Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Brink

August 5, 2022 - by Terese Mason Pierre

the moon in your chest squeezing / salt water down your untouched flesh

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Tears of Things

August 5, 2022August 16, 2022 - by Susan Musgrave

how I desired, / beyond all reason, those unreachable sweets

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Telephone Repairman

July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin

I could take this hammer and drive it / through a wet-oak memory of itself

Black and white portrait of James Langer superimposed on an orange background.

June 2022 / Poetry

New Adventures in Hi-Fi

June 14, 2022 - by James Langer

No bread crumbs left to return us, but diversions / Lobbed beyond a blind hill into the unforeseeable

June 2022 / Poetry

Our Second

June 1, 2022 - by Jana Prikryl

one thing constantly / enters another, becoming not one with it

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