Meet Conyer Clayton! Conyer’s poem, “Once a Week for Eternity,” will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Conyer describes this poem in 12 words or less:
Reframing the inconvenience of allergy shots as a pathway to the divine. 

Conyer Clayton is a writer, musician, editor, and gymnastics coach living on the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe, aka Ottawa. Her debut full-length collection, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 Relit Award. She won The Capilano Review’s 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize and ARC Poetry Magazine’s 2017 Diana Brebner Prize. She’s released two albums and eight chapbooks, including Sprawl | the time it took us to forget (Collusion Books, 2020) written with Manahil Bandukwala, and Towers (Collusion Books, 2021) by VII, of which she is a member.

Meet KATIE CAMERON! Katie’s poem, “Knotted,” will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Katie describes this poem in 12 words or less:
“Knotted” explores queer identity and anxiety, unravelling in expected ways.

Katie Cameron (she/they) is a writer, activist, and queer white settler living on the stolen and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq (Truro, Nova Scotia). They participated in the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program through Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia as an apprentice writer, 2019-2020. Her poetry is forthcoming in Plenitude.

Meet CHARMAINE CADEAU! Charmaine’s poem, “Everything’s Alright,” will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Charmaine describes this poem in 12 words or less:
Before grief: hours crouched at the untrailed river soaked with lillies. 

Born in Toronto, Charmaine Cadeau now lives and works in Lewisville, NC. She is an English professor at High Point University, where she teaches creative writing and literature, and serves as the advisor for Apogee Magazine. She has published two collections of poetry, What You Used to Wear (Goose Lane Editions) and Placeholder (Brick Books), the most recent of which won the Brockman Campbell Book Award and the ReLit Award. Her newest book, Skytale, was handmade with the support of JackPine Press.