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 Krystale Tremblay-Moll Daniel Zomparelli, Super Castle Fun Park (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026), 308pp., $21.95. Daniel Zomparelli’s Super Castle Fun Park is a masterclass in juxtaposition: leisure and grief are interwoven in ways that are both surprising and heartrending. Readers witness a...
Get your poems ready for a chance to win a cash prize and publication in Plenitude Magazine! Plenitude’s new Summer Poetry Contest will run August 1 to September 21, 2026, and will be open to LGBTQ2S+ writers at any stage of their career, anywhere in the world. The contest judge is Misha Solomon...
Two months in a psych ward, 2008 Do not crush. Do not split. Do not chew. Pills in tiny paper cups each meal. They know how well you sleep. They’re weighing you. We all know the surveillance state’s not new. And oh, when the psychosis hits, it’s real. Do not crush. Do not split. Do not chew. Don’t...
I want this Ramadan to last a little longer, so that I may continue to love the sun for a few more days. As I’m sitting inside the mosque, observing the world within a world, I glimpse a man walking in, wearing brown dress pants and a green shirt. He takes off his shoes with the demeanour of a man...
1. One rib still aches from Winnipeg: ….not injury, just weathered memory. 2. Hormones sealed in a Ziploc, ….pressed between Saskatoon receipts ….and a rosary ….I no longer negotiate with. 3. A chest discovering its own storms: ….hail where there was once quiet. 4. A...
