Poetry, Subjects & Themes
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Bruised Fruit
by Brie Susanne
In Bruised Fruit, pride hangs from a tree like a plum, is plucked, and left to rot on the ground. A cow jumps over the moon and lands on the highway. A heart is made of glass. Blushing is “a wound / in my cheek.” A breath is an ocean wave. Love...
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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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Embracing Agency
Debut Collection of Flash Fiction / Fables & Poetry by Joyce Martin Perz
"Embracing Agency" invites readers to experience a moment in the life of a stranger. How will they deal with a situation they can't avoid? - Tell the truth or lie - Stay or leave - Assert themselves or be compliant A good read. These short...
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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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Skyborne Insight, Homemade Love
by Katharine Weinmann
Bringing together the rich complexity of her free verse poetry with original photography, Skyborne Insight, Homemade Love is a metaphor for poet Katharine Weinmann’s realizations about living, often brought into focus while flying. Personal...
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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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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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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...
