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SELECT POETRY

CV2's Animal Issue, Spring 2023, Vol. 45, No. 4: 3 poems co-authored with Manahil Bandukwala

Best Canadian Poetry 2023: "Pistil Pumping" - First published in THIS Magazine

Canthius, Issue 10, Summer 2022: "In the box of jewellery we went through when my mother died"

Pinhole Poetry, July 2022, Issue 2: "Restful as a hornet"

ALOCASIA, June 2022: "today I put my hands into dirt, and it was warm" and "I always hope it's a turkey"

Watch Your Head, June 2022: "Perseverance" and "ripple"

 

CV2's Sick Poetics Issue, 2022: "I don't know how it's possible" and "Those visible capillaries are a sign your sign is no longer yours"

carte blanche, Issue 42, Disability Themed Issue, December 2021: Chaudiére Falls and Smol Bird

 

untethered magazine, 2021: "Once a week for eternity"

 

Augur Magazine, Fall 2021: "Exposure" 

CV2 Fall 2021: "Close your eyes so you can see"

The Quarantine Review, issue 8, Summer 2021: "Fall" and "Grieving, Year 10"

Savant-Garde Magazine, issue 5, Winter 2021: "The Break"

THIS Magazine, 55th anniversary issue, Spring 2021: "Pistil Pumping"

 

CAROUSEL, Issue 44, December 2020: Plumage 

Blue House Journal, Issue 3, November 2020: The Annual Visit

Non Plus Lit, Issue 2, October 2020: Google Doc of Death

Room Magazine, Issue 43.3, Fall 2020: talk about it

The Minola Review, Issue 27, Fall 2020: You never touched me in public

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Capilano Review, Summer 2020, Co-Winner of 2019 Robin Blaser Poetry Prize: 3 poems

long con magazine, Issue 3: What's so blank about it? (Nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize)

Red Alder Review: from Tenement, VI. Purified (Filter me, baby) both textual and video reading

Parentheses Journal, Issue 8, Winter 2020: Only for so long

filling Station Issue 73, Creative non-fiction piece: "I cannot write this softly" -  finalist for a 2021 Alberta Magazine Award for Best Essay

Glass Poetry Press's Poets Resist Series, December 2019: Those who need to here this won't listen

League of Canadian Poets, Poetry Pause Program: What You Actually Lost

 

TRAIN blog, March 2019: Queue

Arc Issue 85, Summer 2018: "Seeds" - Winner of 2017 Diana Brebner Prize, (republished in The Harbor Review, Special Abortion Issue, May 2019: read here)

Prairie Fire Summer 2018: "What you actually lost" - 3rd place in 2018 Carmen Bliss Poetry Contest

 

The Fiddlehead Spring 2018: "Recurrent" - Honourable mention in 2018 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest 

 

The Maynard Fall 2017: The malice in my footsteps

 

Prairie Fire Fall 2017: “Home”

SELECT ESSAYS, NONFICTION AND HYBRID PIECES

Symbols, Portals, and Dreamscapes: How Surrealism Helped Me Write My Second Book - an essay for The Nourishing Word Blog, February 2023

 

filling Station Issue 73, Creative non-fiction piece: "I cannot write this softly" -  finalist for a 2021 Alberta Magazine Award for Best Essay (pdf available here)

Something sharp I want to make soft: a hybrid poem/essay on talking poetics

"Angels and Elephants: On Enjambment;" a micro-essay for ARC's November 2020 Newsletter

REVIEWS AND CRITICISM

Read with Pride: 6 books for Pride Month: 6 mini reviews of my favorite books by 2SLGBTQ+ authors for All Lit Up

"The whole description is fiction," a review of Kate Sutherland's "The Bones are There" for ARC Poetry Magazine

"Tiny Ruins of Reality," a review of Nicole Haldoupis "Tiny Ruins" for Carousel Magazine, January 2021

My top 5 book recommendations at The Poetry Question

“the bridge”: Experimental Review of “Manifest” by Terese Mason Pierre and “The Pink of the Seams” by Sanna Wani for Canthius

"Soft-edged / everything": A review of Nolan Natasha's I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? for Canthius 

 

"I've Been Dying to Rest in this Body." A review of Mallory Tater's "This Will Be Good" for Canthius

"Can you imagine? Mythos and Reclamation in Angela Caravan and Amy LeBlanc:" for Canthius 

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