Meet Lana Crossman! Lana’s poem, “A-Beta (Amyloid beta),” will be featured in our poetry special issue, vol. 12!

How Lana describes this poem in 12 words or less:
“Fibres tangle, plaques accumulate, memories leave you floating heavier than air”

Lana Crossman grew up in rural New Brunswick and now lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Her debut chapbook, Buoyant, at last, will be published by Rose Garden Press in fall 2022. Lana’s poetry has been published in FEED, FERAL, flo., The Light Ekphrastic, Bywords, G U E S T and Apt613. She won Carleton University’s Lilian I. Found Award for Poetry in 2020 and was on the shortlist for the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2018.

Hello lovely humans! Spring has finally arrived and soon so will our new issue!

We are very pleased to announce that we are officially accepting orders of our limited-run Vol. 12, Poetry Special Issue. Cover price for this issue is $18, but we are offering it at at discounted rate of $15 (shipping included) to any early-bird purchasers who order their copy before June 8th!

This Poetry Special Issue includes new work from Khaloud Al-Muttalibi, T.  Best, McKenna James Boeckner, Kayleigh Cline, Lana Crossman, Sheri Doyle, Guy Elston, Rosa Fernandez, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Tea Gerbeza, Vera Hadzic, Wren Jones, Taidgh Lynch, S. Mahamud, Andrea Margaret Martineau, Jill Michelle, Pauline Peters, Lauren Prousky, Michael Russell, Dawn Steiner, Matthew Walsh, Fran Westwood, Toast Wong and Christine Wu.

Cover Art by Maia Stark

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Meet Kayleigh Cline! Kayleigh’s poems, “Dinosaur Blessing” and “Zoom,” will be featured in our upcoming poetry special issue, vol. 12!

How Kayleigh describes “Dinosaur Blessing” in 12 words or less:
“Be this promise of dinosaur: motion making you a marvel”

How Kayleigh describes “Zoom” in 12 words or less:
“Your face rent into pixels, destined for exile in others’ eyes”

Kayleigh Cline has been previously published in Grain, FreeFall and Understorey. Her work has also appeared on a bus and on a beer: her contribution to the Edmonton Poetry Festival’s Poetry Route contest was displayed on a bus and her contribution to Jason Lee Norman’s Summer Sessions project with Blindman Brewing and CKUA Radio was displayed on a beer. An active member of the Stroll of Poets Society and the Canty Collective of Writerly Women, she lives in Edmonton, Alberta.