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...
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...
Translated from Slovenian by Lukas Debeljak I had literally fallen off the couch. Lying prone, studying the leafy landscape of the closed orb, where I had planted my grasses and sedges, I saw something move amidst the stems. Something green. I flinch, turning in astonishment from my position...
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 September 24, 2026, and will be open to LGBTQ2S+ writers at any stage of their career, anywhere in the world. The contest judge is...
