A Q&A with Amanda Merpaw, Plenitude Magazine In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 15 to 19, 2025, Plenitude poetry editor Amanda Merpaw interviews Jess Housty. Jess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is an Indigenous parent, herbalist, and award-winning poet. Their...
A Q&A with Amanda Merpaw, Plenitude Magazine In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 15 to 19, 2025, Plenitude poetry editor Amanda Merpaw interviews Jess Housty. Jess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is an Indigenous parent, herbalist, and award-winning poet. Their...
after Revolutionary Girl Utena & Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury gay as in let’s revolutionize the world, babe. solitary star, when first I saw you, I thought you needed saving. white bloom at my breast, I placed my fate on libra’s scales alongside yours. challenged every cataphract...
She loves our vibe. She loves our cadence, our heart rate, our secret language. She says Damn, you two look good together. One of us is an archer. The other transcribes epics. She loves that. She loves glamour, metallic eye shadow, a plate of salt-fresh oysters. She loves film photography, EDM...
and a rose and apples by the oranges and apples piled beside potatoes and a flower shop inside a grocery store and a single rose O one blushing rose for Adam and I pick out apples and I bag apples and fevered blood floods my cheeks as I scan a single rose O one blood rose at the checkout and apples...
A Q&A with Loch Baillie, Plenitude Magazine In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 15 to 19, 2025, Plenitude poetry editor Loch Baillie interviews Tawahum Bige. Tawahum Bige, a Łutselk’e Dene, Plains Cree poet with a BA in creative writing from...
Reviewed by Tawahum Bige Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew, eds., A Thousand Tiny Awakenings (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025), 84 pp., $20.00. The term “activist poetry” elicits an array of connotations and responses. For many activated by the world around them, the term is a pigeonhole—used by...
Tyler Blair (he/him) is a painter and writer studying at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, B.C. He loves to make art exploring issues of queerness, masculinity, and the interplay between written and visual languages. You can find his poems in Vermillion Lit and Stone of Madness Press.
& the first slip into clear running water by the moon. I want to be a wild animal caught in the glimpse of your gaze & when you look again I am gone. Make the memory of my body a flock of bats erupting. A feral bark. Let the threat of myself prowl. I would like to live on as the plummet in...
Content warning: gun violence It was Christmas Eve and Ogre had a semi-automatic pistol in her waistband. Her hand flinched towards it every other minute—when a car door slammed around the corner, when Liq let out a muffled laugh, when a neighbour’s dog whined at its leash. She stumbled on the back...
