Poetry, Subjects & Themes
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What Remains After the Fire
by Maki Motapanyane
To every woman who has endured what should have broken her. Time, that strange and tender animal, softened the sharpest edges. And I, weary of holding only the wound, began to turn the blade into a mirror. In What Remains After the Fire, Maki...
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Redbird
by Madeline McCart
Redbird is a pocket journal, birthday card, sticky-note style collection of memories and experiences of a young Canadian girl remembering the riches of growing up in the boons. Redbird follows the author as she remembers her past, lives through...
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Pour My Heart Out
by Irene Bird
Pour My Heart Out is the debut poetry collection from Indigenous poet Irene Bird. The stunning vulnerability and authenticity of journal writing meets the frank artfulness of Bird’s poetics as she chronicles her journey through hurt and...
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Echos of the Canyon
Poems and Drawings by Betty Nadine Thomas
For all of you in the United States working diligently to combat the destruction that is occurring, thank you for your bravery, courage to step up and out to stop the erosion of rights for all humans, no matter your race, religion, sexual...
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Finding What Always Was
by Deadly Poets Society
Born in the silence of lockdowns and the noise of systemic change, the Deadly Poets Society began as a circle of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health researchers who met fortnightly to write, reflect, and hold space for one another. What started...
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A Pomegranate Story
And Other Poems by Hanie Afshar
She’s one of the Pomegranates On the tree She falls Cracks open Starts to bleed Now you wash the hands That have ripped its skin They’re remaining red You are never clean! Inspired by personal experiences and the stories of others, A Pomegranate...
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War and Other Inconveniences
by Trevor W. Harrison
This collection combines several poems written since 2020 with five poems of older origin. An earlier version of “A Pretty Good Planet” appeared in Alberta Views in March 2022. An earlier version of “Guernica, Then and Now,” appeared in Canadian...
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the bee and the fleur de lis
love poems for the broken hearted and unrequited by D R Kendel
Love is primal…and heartbreak? Inevitable. the bee and the fleur de lis is a collection of deeply personal poetry born of hopeless romanticism and truly heartbreaking experiences. Through both free verse and rhyming poetry, D R Kendel plays with...
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One More Bite Darling
by Bronté Rawlings
One More Bite Darling dives into topics of eating disorders, depression, and recovery. It is a collection of the author’s personal journal entries over the past six years. In the first two parts, the author, Bronté Rawlings, takes us on a journey...
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Water
by Grandma Urchin
To live while drowning. To endure without expecting rescue. Water is a raw and luminous collection of poetry that wades deep into the currents of trauma, mental illness, and survival. With the wise voice of an old mountain woman—weathered, wise,...
