By the time we flew into L.A., I felt like sending my body through one of those X-ray machines in security to make sure my brain was still intact. If a picnic in Stanley Park was all the disruption Malcolm could handle to his daily routine, why did I think for one moment—one second—that he could...
Well another day spent boot-walking through my allotted patchwork of registered burns and cutblocks. Rototilling circles around piles of slash and struck-by-thunder trees. In the heat of the day, I sweat through dark coveralls. Here I am: picking up skulls of birds. Woodpecker feathers, horsehair...
Erik Naydiuk (he/him) is a gay writer living in Vancouver and pursuing his MFA at the University of British Columbia. His poetry can be found in Bitter Magazine, and he is a member of PRISM international’s editorial board. He spends his time reading, cooking, exploring the outdoors, and...
including the one who spelled it with y. All I talk about is wealth-hoarding w/ Chinese characteristics, not to be confused with love-deprivation. Some auntie somewhere is learning the importance of saying “I love you” to her children & grandchildren. It’s that important to some of us now. More...
Translated from Slovenian by Lukas Debeljak I had literally fallen off the couch. Lying prone, studying the leafy landscape of the closed orb, where I had planted my grasses and sedges, I saw something move amidst the stems. Something green. I flinch, turning in astonishment from my position...
We meet in the morning // and the first thing you say is // back in the 16th and 17th centuries // “morning” used to refer to the whole day. // We are unusual people // we find honour in language history // sanctity in semantics // and tend to exclaim about etymology // and today? // Today will be...
Reviewed by Namitha Rathinappillai Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026), 112pp., $21.95. Emma McKenna, Gold Star (Book*Hug Press, 2026), 88pp., $22.95. In the canon of poetry published in Canada, to read about disability at all still...
Interview by Patrick Grace, managing editor Plenitude Magazine’s 2026 Summer Poetry Contest is in full swing! With the September 21 deadline soon approaching, Plenitude’s managing editor Patrick Grace asked contest judge Misha Solomon a few questions about poetry as a queer art form; his debut...
On Wednesday, September 23, join us for an evening of queer literature as Plenitude Magazine hosts its first Ottawa-based reading at Perfect Books! Featuring four authors whose work has appeared in Plenitude over the years: Manahil Bandukwala, Adam Meisner, Pamela Mosher, and Kevin Shaw, with...
