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...
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...
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...
