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...
