Interview by L’Amour Lisik In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 16 to 20, 2024, Plenitude prose editor L’Amour Lisik interviews Leanne Dunic, whose latest poetry collection, Wet, was released in Spring 2024 with Talonbooks. Leanne Dunic transgresses genres...
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Traces of Nowhere
I have seen Twin Peaks exactly once in my life, in an apparition of a sunroom. ◊ It was like watching dust settle, how bored I was, piecing together why I was here and what I wanted and what this would mean to me in the end. ◊ The hot itch of orange tweed against the backs of my legs, an irritating...
Love, Lust and Loss: A Review of Stay by Keith Garebian
Reviewed by Kegan McFadden Keith Garebian, Stay (JLRB Press, 2024), 85 pp., $19.99. There are books you encounter, on occasion, that leave space for you… space where it can feel like you’re living alongside the poet, their accumulated line breaks and stanzas brush up against your own memories, so...
My Grandfather’s Ghost
I am become my grandfather’s ghost: Crumbs over the kitchen sink into eternity The children of hunger, The Daughters Insomniac, Nobody ever loved you like a good pot of stew. My grandfather wore a messenger Hat, a black leather jacket. He is alive now, like a ghost; I, his cool fibers...
On Drowned Trees
The common loon has four calls—the tremolo, the yodel, the wail, and the hoot. Each call communicates an emotion, a desire, or a warning. When I return to Wisconsin, the place where I grew up and the place where my grandpa’s family has lived and died for generations, I listen to the loons calling...
We’re Hiring for Poetry and Prose Editors!
Plenitude Magazine is currently seeking permanent, part-time editors for two positions: Associate Poetry Editor Associate Prose Editor The candidate will work with our current editors to oversee the regular online publication of poetry and prose from prominent and up-and-coming LGBTQ2s+ authors...
introducing myself to my mother
Angelic Goldsky (also known as angelic vers) is a queer/trans poet working at the crossroads of diasporic lineage repair, queer world-building, angel-wrestling and complex trauma timeline healing through musicality, rhythm, clown-foolery and playful devotion. Their poem Trans Scripts of Crisis is...
Skateboarding into Adulthood: A Review of Crash Landing by Li Charmaine Anne
Reviewed by Jeffrey Canton Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing (Annick Press, 2024), 288 pp., $18.95. More and more adult readers are turning to young adult (YA) fiction. But young and old alike will enjoy Crash Landing, the 2024 debut novel by Li Charmaine Anne, which was last year’s winner of the...
Report from the Interior
Lucas Crawford is Canada Research Chair of Transgender Creativity and Mental Health at the University of Alberta (Augustana). This rural Nova Scotian has authored five books, including the Kroetsch Prize-winning Muster Points (U of Calgary, 2023). Lucas runs “Rewriting Ourselves,” a...
Self-Care as Demolition
the walls are moving. tumbling walls falling. i undo the home. i break the skeleton, the back- bone. foundation alone could move mountains. i shake it up. take it apart. kiss a side, turn it inside out. plop it face down on the ground. lie on it. give it warmth. i loosen the screws of every single...