The cuckoo has laid its eggs in my (mother’s) brain. It found the cerebrum a spongy roost, an almost natural habitat and now, flying the coop, expects me to take care of the babies. I consult a field guide. Learn the cuckoo is a strange relative of the roadrunner, its song a series of hollow...
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...
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...
A Q&A with L’Amour Lisik, Plenitude Magazine In collaboration with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 12 to 18, 2026, former Plenitude prose editor L’Amour Lisik interviews VFA panelist Daniel Zomparelli, who will participate in Amusement Dark: Three Novels, an in...
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...
