Eh Poetry Podcast - Canadian poems read 3 times, each with a slight difference.
158 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -A space to listen to poetry like you listen to your favourite music, on repeat!
We feature poetry from poets who call Canada home with the goal of exposing it to the world, while giving listeners a chance to dive deeper into each poem with a 2nd and 3rd reading.
Our audience loves diving further into the poem with each reading and the poets featured love hearing their work through another poet's eyes, ears, heart and voice.
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Why do people love the broken people best by Marion Lougheed
September 30, 2022 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.57 MBMarion Lougheed is a writer, editor and anthropologist grew up on three continents. She remains hard to pin down. Her work was selected for the 2021 Poem In Your Pocket Day series (League of Canadian Poets) and won the 2021 Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge (Press 53, Prime Number Magazine, 2021) She runs Off Topic Publishing and spends a lot of time mulling over words - her own and those of others. You can follow Marion on Twitter and Facebook. As always, we would love to hear from you. Hav...
Knots by Courtney Bates-Hardy
September 28, 2022 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBCourtney Bates-Hardy is the author of House of Mystery (2016) and a chapbook titled Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Room, CAROUSEL, Juniper, This Magazine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. They have also been anthologized in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (Biblioasis). She is queer and disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets. She is cu...
Is It Safe? by Ronna Bloom
September 27, 2022 12:29 - 3 minutes - 3.39 MBRonna Bloom is the author of six books of poetry. She is a registered psychotherapist (CRPO inactive). Ronna developed the first Poet in Residence programme at Mount Sinai Hospital/Sinai Health which ran from 2012-2019. Her Spontaneous Poetry Booths and RX for Poetry have appeared in hospital waiting rooms, bookstores, fundraisers and arts events in Canada, The UK and Italy. Ronna's work has been broadcast on the CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, translated into...
On The Spring Equinox by Amanda Merpaw
September 26, 2022 06:00 - 6 minutes - 5.92 MBAmanda Merpaw is a poet, writer, editor, educator, and researcher. Her writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, The Maynard, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, and Room. She was shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2022 Poem of the Year Contest. Her first chapbook, Put the Ghosts Down Between Us, was released in 2021 by Anstruther Press and her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in Spring 2024. She is currently a contribu...
Attention by Kate Cayley
September 23, 2022 06:00 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MBKate Cayley is a fiction writer, playwright, and poet. She has written a short story collection, How You Were Born, two collections of poetry, When This World Comes to an End and Other Houses, a young adult novel, The Hangman in the Mirror, and a number of plays, both traditional and experimental. She has won the Trillium Book Award, the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, an O. Henry Short Story Prize, and a Chalmers Fellowship, and been a finalist ...
Tryouts For The Flying Motorist Artist Team, 1958 by Hoa Nguyen
September 21, 2022 14:14 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MBBorn in the Mekong Delta, Hoa Nguyen was raised and educated in the United States and has lived in Canada since 2011. Hoa has had the privilege to work and teach all over the United States and Canada and is the author of several books including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her fifth book of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure was named a finalist for a Kingsley Tufts Award, National Boo...
Whale by Joyce Goodwin
September 20, 2022 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBIn 1989 Joyce immigrated with family from Ireland to North Vancouver and continued her social work career. She joined the North Shore Writers’ Association becoming vice-President and co-founder of “Dare to be Heard” literary salon. She later also joined the Canadian Authors Association Vancouver board and The Ontario Poetry Society. Joyce has been a trustee, judge and reviewer for national book awards and a contributing writer to Arts Alive magazine. Her words are etched into glass at the Ly...
On Lake Ontario by Dharm Jain
September 19, 2022 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.12 MBAbout the author: Dharmpal Mahendra Jain Born (1952) and raised in tribal reserve of Jhabua, India, Dharm is a Toronto based Author. He writes in Hindi and English. He has seven published books- five collections of satirical essays and two collections of Poetry. He is a columnist for three prestigious journals Chankya Varta, Vishwa Gatha, Setu and Vishwa. His works have appeared in prestigious Hindi journals across the world. His poetry in English has been previously published in Poetry Pa...
Meeting Anne Shirley by Vilma Blenman
September 02, 2022 06:00 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBVilma Blenman is a Jamaican-Canadian poet, a registered psychotherapist, a teacher and a mother of two millennials. She considers her poems dispatches from the diaspora where she’s both observer and participant on issues of race, identity formation, Black history and the wonder of landscapes that speak to the soul. Vilma published her chapbook, "First Flight" in 2013 and since then had poems and prose pieces in the Canadian best seller anthology series, “Hot Apple Cider,” published by That’s...
Red Tide by Shannon Kernaghan
September 01, 2022 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.03 MBShannon Kernaghan’s work appears in books, magazines and journals – poetry, fiction and everything between. She enjoyed life as a ‘digital nomad’ for years, writing from her RV parked on a horse ranch in Alberta or between casinos in Las Vegas. Previously she wrote a weekly newspaper column, and she continues to tell her stories at www.ShannonKernaghan.com. Find her book here: More Life Coming Up (After the Breakdown) Follow her anywhere: W: www.ShannonKernaghan.com FB: https://www.faceb...
A Love Supreme by Richard-Yves Sitoski
August 31, 2022 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBRichard-Yves Sitoski is a songwriter, performance poet, and the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, Ontario. He is also the Artistic Director of the Words Aloud festival. He is part of the performance poetry duo O P E N Sound with croc E moses, makes politically charged sound poetry with the Noises ON Collective, and explores the history of Grey County in story, song, and verse with the Métissage Collective. He regularly collaborates with Grey Bruce Pride, SHEATRE and the M'Wikwedong Indi...
Blue Rider by Elana Wolff
August 30, 2022 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MBElana Wolff lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario—the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations. Her poems and creative nonfiction have recently appeared (or will soon appear) in Arc online (Awards of Awesomeness), Bear Review, Best Canadian Poetry 2021, Canadian Literature, Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, Montréal Serai, MONO, Pinhole Poetry, Literary Review of Canada, Taddle Creek 25th Anniversary Edition, Waterwheel Review, and White Wall Review. Her collection, S...
Luminology by Phillip Crymble
August 29, 2022 06:00 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBPhillip Crymble is a physically disabled poet from Belfast now living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead and a PhD candidate at UNB, he received his MFA from the University of Michigan and has new poems forthcoming The Walrus, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. Not Even Laughter, his first book-length collection, was a finalist for both the J.M. Abraham Prize and the New Brunswick Book Award. In 2016 he won The Puritan’s annual Thomas Morton Po...
My Dishwasher by Michael Penny
August 26, 2022 12:09 - 2 minutes - 2.52 MBMichael Penny has published five books, most recently Outside, Inside (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.) He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and came to Edmonton with his family in 1967. His 2011 book, Particles, was short-listed for the Writers Guild of Alberta Stefansson Award. His writing has appeared in dozen of literary periodicals and anthologies. He lives on Bowen Island. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message on the Eh Poetry Podca...
Dive by Madeline Bassnett
August 25, 2022 12:41 - 5 minutes - 5.09 MBMadeline Bassnett is a poet, teacher, and researcher. She is the author of the poetry collection Under the Gamma Camera (Gaspereau 2019), which was longlisted for the RCLAS Annual Fred Cogswell Award in 2020. She is also the author of two chapbooks: Pilgrimage (Baseline 2016) and Elegies (Frog Hollow 2011). She lives on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton Nations, where she teaches English and Creative Writing at Western University. Twi...
Childhood Tongue by Daniel G. Scott
August 24, 2022 12:20 - 4 minutes - 3.81 MBDaniel G Scott, has just released Travels with Athóma (Aeolus House) and has previously published Aftertime (2019) and Voicing Suicide (2020), an anthology of suicide poems he edited, as well as [klee-shays] undone, volume one (2020). His other publications include four books of poetry, three chapbooks and individual poems in journals, anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications. In 1984, he won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick. He is past Artistic D...
Dresden Cup by Susan Wismer
August 23, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBSusan is... poet, mother, grandmother, gardener, dancer, hiker, activist. A former professor of environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, she has worked with colleagues in Indonesia, India and Northern Canada and with students from many places around the world. She walked the Camino Santiago in 2018 and plans to walk the Bruce Trail which passes close to her home, from start to finish in 2022. The pandemic months have been made much more bearable by her ongoing collaboration with...
I Was Just Thinking by Sean McDermott
August 22, 2022 14:13 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBSean McDermott is an Irish poet and songwriter living in Toronto, ON. On his first book of poetry I Was Just Thinking: An important collection by a superb talent reflecting the poet's world during the lockdown/Pandemic "During my solitude, I have taken a deep dive into personal history and common emotion. The poems deal with my thoughts on relationships, alcoholism, illness, music and escapism into memories and fantasy. The work is wrapped in a protective layer of reality and optimism...
Seduced by Siman Constam
August 20, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MBSimon Constam is a poet and an aphorist. His poems have been published in various magazines, among them The Jewish Literary Journal, Poetica, and the Dark Poetry Club. He has published a new, original aphorism under the moniker Daily Ferocity on Instagram, daily for almost three years. Characterized by the admission of doubt in God’s desire for a better world, and willing to see Jewish tradition as indispensable, Brought Down struggles with daily life as a firm believer and continuing pride...
Screw by James Pollock
August 19, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.78 MBJames Pollock’s most recent book of poems is Durable Goods (Véhicule Press/Signal Editions, 2022). He is also the author of Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, and winner of an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association; and You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2012), a finalist for the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Yea...
Excerpt from "Hand" by Klara du Plessis (3 of 3)
August 18, 2022 09:00 - 7 minutes - 6.92 MBThis episode is the third of a special three episode series featuring seven excerpts from the poem "Hand" by Klara du Plessis from her 2020 book Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press) Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans. Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020. As always, we would love to hear from...
Excerpt from "Hand" by Klara du Plessis (2 of 3)
August 17, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBThis episode is the second of a special 3 episode series featuring seven excerpts from the poem "Hand" by Klara du Plessis from her 2020 book Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press) Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans. Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020. As always, we would love to hear from yo...
Excerpt from "Hand" by Klara du Plessis (1 of 3)
August 16, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBThis episode is the first of a special 3 episode series featuring seven excerpts from the poem "Hand" by Klara du Plessis from her 2020 book Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest Press) Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans. Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, in 2019. Her second collection, Hell Light Flesh, was released in 2020. As always, we would love to hear from you...
Already it Seems You Haunt This Cottage by Milton Acorn
August 13, 2022 16:27 - 8 minutes - 7.41 MBMilton James Rhode Acorn (March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright. He was born in Prince Edward Island, and grew up in Charlottetown. He joined the armed forces during World War II at the age of eighteen. During World War II, on a trans-Atlantic crossing, Acorn suffered a wound from depth charges. The wound was severe enough for him to receive a disability pension from Veterans Affairs for most of his life. He...
A Jar of Fireflies by Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
August 12, 2022 13:18 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBJosie Di Sciascio-Andrews has written six collections of poetry: "The Whispers of Stones", "Sea Glass", "The Red Accordion", "Letters from the Singularity", "A Jar of Fireflies" and "Sunrise Over Lake Ontario." Nature and one's place in it, as well as memory and social justice are her muses. Her poems "The Red Accordion" and "Emerald City" were shortlisted for Descant's Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem Prize and The Malahat Review's Open Seasons Award respectively. In 2015, her poem "Gho...
Saint Lucy (who carries her eyes in a dish) by Nancy Holmes
August 11, 2022 12:30 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBCanadian writer Nancy Holmes has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press). She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems. She is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. With Denise Kenney, she established the Eco Art Incubator, an initiative which supports ecological art in the Okanagan Valley and with Dr. Cameron Cartiere she established an a...
Shhhhh by Laura Zacharin
August 10, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MBLaura Zacharin is the author of Common Brown House Moths (Frontenac House 2019), longlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Award. She was the recipient of University of Toronto’s Marina Nemat Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, CV2, The Malahat Review, Prism, Arc Poetry, and other Canadian literary journals. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. This poem "Shhhhh" was written during a workshop given by Ariel Gordon as writer in residence at University of Manitoba’s Center fo...
Witness by Karen Quevillon
August 09, 2022 13:29 - 5 minutes - 4.86 MBKaren Quevillon is an award-winning author of poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Since 2009 her work has appeared in literary journals such as Grain, Geist Magazine, In/Words, FreeFall, Cargo Literary, Maple Tree Literary Supplement and The Fieldstone Review. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first book-length volume of poetry. Her debut novel, THE PARASOL FLOWER, was released in 2020 by Regal House Publishing. Educated as a philosopher (PhD Northwestern University), K...
Post-Surgery Shower by Lauren Seal
August 08, 2022 13:27 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBLauren Seal is a writer, librarian, and St. Albert’s third Poet Laureate. She mentors the teen and young adult poets of SWYC, the Spoken Word Youth Choir, and performs in the adult incarnation of the group. When she’s not busy recommending books to library patrons, Lauren can be found reading, writing, and composing poems in her head on long dog walks. You can read more of her wonderful work here. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram to keep up with her news. As always, we would love to he...
Bonus Track by Gordon Taylor
August 06, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBGordon Taylor (he/him) is a queer poet who walks an ever-swaying wire of technology, health care and poetry. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Grain, Rattle, Event, Banshee, Descant and Plenitude. In his spare time Gordon is a volunteer reader for Five South Magazine. "Bonus Track" was published in Banshee Issue #13 | Spring/Summer 2022 Here is another of Gordon's poems for your reading pleasure. As always, we would love to hear from you. H...
Hangover by Patrick Connors
August 05, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBPat Connors first chapbook, Scarborough Songs, was released by Lyricalmyrical Press in 2013, and charted on the Toronto Poetry Map. Other publication credits include: The Toronto Quarterly; Spadina Literary Review; Sharing Spaces; Tamaracks; and Tending the Fire. His first full collection, The Other Life, is newly released by Mosaic Press. You can follow Pat on his social media, here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.j.connors.3 Twitter: https://twitter.com/81912CON As alway...
A White Tent Goes Up by Sarah Venart
August 04, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.71 MBSarah Venart was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1968. She moved to New Brunswick with her family at the age of four, spending her childhood and teenage years on a sheep farm near the village of Elgin. She has published two books of poetry: Woodshedding (2007) and I am The Big Heart (2020). Sarah has an MA in Creative Writing and Literature (Concordia) and two B.A.s in Creative Writing and Canadian Studies. Read more. You can follow Sarah on Instagram and/or Twitter. You can purchase her bo...
Blessing for Twitter by Adam Sol
August 03, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.04 MBAdam Sol was born in New York, and lived in East Brunswick, New Jersey for a few years, but he thinks of New Fairfield, Connecticut, as where he really grew up. Adam went to Tufts University for undergrad, which included a year at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. It happened to be the 1989-1990 school year, which was pretty momentous for a few reasons. He borrowed a mallet that spring and got my own little chunk of the Berlin Wall, though it doesn’t look any different from a normal...
when i ask you if i've changed by Ryanne Kap
August 02, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.6 MBRyanne Kap is a Chinese-Canadian writer and academic from Strathroy, Ontario. Her work has been featured in Grain, carte blanche, long con, and elsewhere. Her short story “Heat” won first place in Grain’s 2020 Short Grain contest, was nominated by Grain for the 2020 Journey Prize, and was selected as a notable pick in the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Short Stories. Her debut chapbook, “goodbye, already,” was published by Frog Hollow Press in 2021. Ryanne holds a B.A. (Honours, with distinct...
Father's Day by Liz Howard
August 01, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MBLiz Howard’s debut collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for poetry, and was named a Globe and Mail top 100 book. A National Magazine Award finalist, her recent work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Literary Review of Canada, Room Magazine and Best Canadian Poetry 2021. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was published by McClelland & Stewart in June 2021. Howard received an...
Raining Glory by Neall Calvert
July 30, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MBNeall Calvert has twenty-five years’ experience as a journalist, book editor and writer. His poetry has been published in Strathcona Collective, Yawp! [India], The Men’s Journal, Thunder Stick, Borrowed Solace, Dreamers, Open Minds Quarterly, the 2019 Durvile / Alberta book "Vistas of the West: Poems and Visuals of Nature," the 2022 Caitlin Press / BC book "Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees," and online at Recovering The Self and the League of Canadian Poets' Poetr...
#60 - Raining Glory by Neall Calvert
July 30, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MBNeall Calvert has twenty-five years’ experience as a journalist, book editor and writer. His poetry has been published in Strathcona Collective, Yawp! [India], The Men’s Journal, Thunder Stick, Borrowed Solace, Dreamers, Open Minds Quarterly, the 2019 Durvile / Alberta book "Vistas of the West: Poems and Visuals of Nature," the 2022 Caitlin Press / BC book "Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees," and online at Recovering The Self and the League of Canadian Poets' Poetr...
Words Come After by Rayya Liebich
July 29, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.95 MBRayya Liebich (she/her) is an award-winning Canadian writer of Lebanese and Polish descent. Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she teaches creative writing classes to youth, adults, and seniors in Nelson, British Columbia. Read more about Rayya here. You can follow Rayya on Instagram, here. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried send me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? Either way, we would like to rewa...
#59 - Words Come After by Rayya Liebich
July 29, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.95 MBRayya Liebich (she/her) is an award-winning Canadian writer of Lebanese and Polish descent. Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she teaches creative writing classes to youth, adults, and seniors in Nelson, British Columbia. Read more about Rayya here. You can follow Rayya on Instagram, here. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried send me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? Either way, we would like to rewa...
#58 - Even at its most dificult by Manahil Bandukwala
July 28, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBManahil Bandukwala is a writer, visual artist, and editor. She was born and raised in Karachi and is currently a settler on the unceded territory of the Anishnabek, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River (Mississauga). She holds a BA in English from Carleton University and an MA in English at the University of Waterloo. She currently works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and Digital Co...
Even at its most difficult by Manahil Bandukwala
July 28, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBManahil Bandukwala is a writer, visual artist, and editor. She was born and raised in Karachi and is currently a settler on the unceded territory of the Anishnabek, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River (Mississauga). She holds a BA in English from Carleton University and an MA in English at the University of Waterloo. She currently works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and Digital Co...
#57 - Origin Story by Rob McLennan
July 27, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MBBorn in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with the brilliant and utterly delightful poet and book conservator Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the CAA/Most Promising Writer in Canada under 30 Award in 1999, the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was long...
Origin Story by Rob McLennan
July 27, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MBBorn in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with the brilliant and utterly delightful poet and book conservator Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the CAA/Most Promising Writer in Canada under 30 Award in 1999, the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was long...
As Far As You Know by A.F. Moritz
July 25, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBA. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently, The Sparrow (2018) and As Far As You Know (2020). In 2019, Moritz was named the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto, a position he will hold for four years. He also serves as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. Moritz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy...
#55 - As Far As You Know by A.F. Moritz
July 25, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBA. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently, The Sparrow (2018) and As Far As You Know (2020). In 2019, Moritz was named the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto, a position he will hold for four years. He also serves as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. Moritz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy...
Birdhouse by Kate Marshall Flaherty
July 23, 2022 14:17 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBKate Marshall Flaherty is a poet, teacher, editor and performer. She has five books of poetry, including "Reaching V," Guernica Editions and “Radiant,” Inanna Publications. She has been published in numerous Canadian and International Journals and Anthologies, CV2, Grain, Room, Saranac Review, Trinity Review and others. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Mitchel Prize foe Poetry, Arc's Poem of the Year 2019 and Exile's Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize 2018, Descant’s Best Canadian Poem, the Pab...
#54 - Birdhouse by Kate Marshall Flaherty
July 23, 2022 14:17 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBKate Marshall Flaherty is a poet, teacher, editor and performer. She has five books of poetry, including "Reaching V," Guernica Editions and “Radiant,” Inanna Publications. She has been published in numerous Canadian and International Journals and Anthologies, CV2, Grain, Room, Saranac Review, Trinity Review and others. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Mitchel Prize foe Poetry, Arc's Poem of the Year 2019 and Exile's Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize 2018, Descant’s Best Canadian Poem, the Pab...
#53 - I'll Come Back as a Strathearn Paperweight by Jessica Lee McMillan
July 22, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBJessica Lee McMillan is a poet with an MA in English. When not writing or teaching, she spends time with her little family and buries herself in books and records. Jessica's work explores perception, existential concerns, pop culture, music, social justice, nature, water, physics, scale, the word & body, and mental & physical peripheries. You can find her work presently/forthcoming in Pocket Lint, Tiny Spoon, Blank Spaces Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Riddled with Arrows, Antilang, Dream Pop J...
I'll Come Back as a Strathearn Paperweight by Jessica Lee McMillan
July 22, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MBJessica Lee McMillan is a poet with an MA in English. When not writing or teaching, she spends time with her little family and buries herself in books and records. Jessica's work explores perception, existential concerns, pop culture, music, social justice, nature, water, physics, scale, the word & body, and mental & physical peripheries. You can find her work presently/forthcoming in Pocket Lint, Tiny Spoon, Blank Spaces Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Riddled with Arrows, Antilang, Dream Pop J...
#52 - Complex Beauty - Emerging from Grays by Francine Fallara
July 21, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.71 MBFrancine Fallara is a passionate, genuine and creative simple girl striving daily to keep my inner rebel warrior alive. Music lover. Exploration Geologist. Society tries to impose so many rules on us and our life patterns, but who says this is the way to live. If people would seriously listen more to their inner voices, they would be happier, more optimistic, avoid depression and be grateful for their life achievements. We are the master of our own lives. We need to understand we can change...