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...
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Summer Poetry Contest: An Interview with Contest Judge Misha Solomon
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...
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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...
An Evening of Queer Literature in Ottawa with Plenitude Magazine
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...
Our Crip Collectivity: A Double-Book Review of New Poetry by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Emma McKenna
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...
all the Janes I know are Chinese
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...
