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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
