Meet MICHELLE POIRIER BROWN! Michelle’s poem, “The Day the Roses Came Was an Ordinary Day,” will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Michelle describes her poem in 12 words or less:
The little things in life speak volumes when there is only silence. 

Michelle Poirier Brown is an internationally published poet and performer, currently living in Lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria, BC). She is nêhiýaw-iskwêw and a citizen of the Métis Nation. Her poem “Wake” won PRISM international’s 2019 Earle Birney Prize. Other poetry has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Arc, CV2, Grain, The Greensboro Review, Emrys Journal, Plenitude, The Puritan, and Vallum; several chapbooks and anthologies; and the 2021 song cycle, “The Length of a Day” (Jeffrey Ryan, composer). Her debut book, You Might Be Sorry You Read This, is forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press in the Robert Kroetsch Series in 2022. www.skyblanket.ca

Meet SACHA ARCHER! Four of Sacha’s concrete poems will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Sacha describes these pieces in 12 words or less:
Noise of letters reimagining how the ear-eye and the eye-ear hold them.

Sacha Archer lives in Burlington, Ontario with his wife and two daughters. Most recently, he has published Mother’s Milk (Timglaset), which was chosen by CBC as one of the best books of poetry of 2020—the first book of concrete poetry to ever appear on that list. His work has been included in the anthologies Watch Your Head (Coach House Books, 2020) and Writing Utopia 2020 (Hesterglock, 2020). His work Jung Origami is forthcoming from Enneract Editions. Archer’s concrete poetry has been exhibited internationally. Find him on Facebook and Instagram @sachaarcher, or on twitter @sachaarchermeat

MEET THE 6.1 CONTRIBUTORS: Sacha Archer, Michelle Poirier Brown, Charmaine Cadeau, Katie Cameron, Conyer Clayton, Clay Everest, Jennifer Falkner, Hollay Ghadery, Tolmie Greaves, Natalie Hanna, Elizabeth Harrison, Sarah Hilton, Alyson Hoy, Hana Mason, A.A. Parr, Geoff Pevlin, Anna Ralph, Jessica Anne Robinson, Sinead Mary Ryan, Andrew J. Simpson, Allison Whittenberg, and Sara Wilson!