Issues
No. 227 Summer 2024
Cover · Contents · Book Reviews · Contributor Notes
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Website: cbairdlew.com Instagram: @cbairdlew X: @cbairdlew YVONNE BLOMER is a past Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC and was ARC Poetry’s 2022-2023 poet-in-residence. Her sixth book of poetry, Death of Persephone: A Murder, is forthcoming in 2024. She is preparing a third water-based poetry anthology. Website: yvonneblomer.com BRIAN BRETT (1950-2024) was a poet, memoirist, fiction writer, and journalist. His many books include the memoir Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (2009). ISHA CAMARA is a Gambian-American poet and visual artist from South Minneapolis, MN. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Southeast Review, MUZZLE Magazine, Hayden Ferry Review, and Lumiere Review. RYAN CANNON is a writer and film professor. His stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, and Narrative Magazine. He lives in Idaho. Website: ryan-cannon.com MORGAN CROSS is an acupuncturist, writer, and earth devotee. A descendant of European settlers on so-called Vancouver Island, she resides in Sc’ianew territory. Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, PRISM International, Room Magazine, and more. Substack: morgancross.substack.com TORKWASE DYSON is a painter who works across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. The cover image comes from a series of “hypershapes” shown in Chicago in 2018 as part of Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells School. Her work has been widely exhibited in the US. Website: torkwasedyson.com DANIELA ELZA’s latest poetry collections are the broken boat (2020) and slow erosions (2020), a chapbook in collaboration with Arlene Ang. She is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry. JOE ENNS is a writer, painter, and fisheries biologist on Vancouver Island. His poetry has been published in The Fiddlehead, FreeFall, and Dalhousie Review. Website: ennsjoe.com Instagram: @ennsjoe NATHAN ERWIN is a land-based poet raised in northern Appalachia. A community organizer, Erwin currently operates with the Pocasset Pokanoket tribe as they fight for land, food, and seed sovereignty. His work has appeared in The Journal, North American Review, and Poetry Wales. Instagram: @_nathanerwin_ MICHELLE HARDY is a freelance editor and book reviewer with a master’s degree in English and an editing certificate. A member of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association, Michelle lives in Victoria, BC. Website: mhardyeditor.com Instagram: @mhardy_editor WESS MONGO JOLLEY is a Canadian novelist and poet in Montreal, QC. He hosted the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel for ten years. His horror trilogy, The Last Handful of Clover, is available on various platforms. Website: wessmongojolley.com JAKE KENNEDY, the author of several full-length collections of poetry, has recently edited and introduced John Lent’s selected poems (forthcoming in Fall 2024). LILLIAN LIAO is a writer based in Vancouver, BC. DIANE LOUIE’s book of prose poems, Fractal Shores, a winner of the National Poetry Series, was awarded the 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. She lives with her partner, a research scientist, in Paris, France. Website: dianehlouie.com RAYMOND LUCZAK is the author and editor of over thirty books, including A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (2022) and Far from Atlantis (2023). He lives in Minneapolis, MN. Website: raymondluczak.com KHALED MATTAWA’s latest book of poems is Fugitive Atlas (2020). He is the William Wilhartz Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and editor-in-chief of Michigan Quarterly Review. X: @kmattawa KEVIN MACDONELL is a lifelong compulsive diarist who lives in Nova Scotia and writes about forgetting. ROSALIE MORRIS is a BC-based writer and editor with an MA in nineteenth-century literature. Her work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Room Magazine, Vancouver Magazine, Heirloom Gardener, and on the occasional postcard. Instagram: @rosalie_morris ELI MUSHUMANSKI, a queer writer living on unceded Ləʷəŋən territory, grew up in rural Northern BC. They were the City of Victoria’s Youth Poet Laureate in 2022. Eli’s work is published in Humber Literary Review, Plenitude Magazine, and elsewhere. Linktree: linktr.ee/emushumanski LAUREN PEAT’s debut chapbook, Future Tense, will be published in Fall 2024. Her recent poems and translations have appeared in ARC Poetry, No Tokens, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry South, and World Literature Today. Website: laurenpeatwrites.com X: @laurencpeat AARON RABINOWITZ writes poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction. He has won PRISM International’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, Meridian’s Short Prose Prize, and CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition. Website: aaronrabinowitz.com KYEREN REGEHR’s Cult Life was a finalist for the 2021 ReLit Awards and the Victoria Butler Book Prize; Disassembling a Dancer won the 2021 Raven Chapbooks Contest. She’s the Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry. Website: kyerenregehr.ca Instagram: @byallmeanswrite KAITLIN RUETHER’s work has appeared in Brick magazine, Plenitude, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA. She currently lives in Toronto/Tkaronto, where she is working on a climate fiction novel. D. SEABROOK is a writer and critic based in Western Canada. A work in progress examines the inner life of a character with Borderline Personality Disorder™. VIVEK SHARMA, a first-generation immigrant-settler and BIPOC poet from Nepal, is a recent MFA graduate from the University of British Columbia. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in South Dakota Review, Zaum Magazine, and Clackamas Literary Review. X: @SharmaviVivek SAADI YOUSSEF (1934-2021), author of over forty books of poetry, two novels, a book of short stories, several books of essays, a memoir, and numerous works of translation (including Whitman, Cavafy, and Lorca), is considered one of the most important contemporary poets in the Arab world. Born near Basra, Iraq, he spent the last two decades of his life in London. |
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