Josie 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...

Canadian 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...

Laura 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 for...

Karen 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),...

Lauren 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...

Gordon 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....

Pat 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 always, we...

Sarah 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...

Adam 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...

Ryanne 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...

Liz 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...

Neall 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' Poetry...

Rayya 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...

Manahil 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...

Born 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...

Eve Joseph grew up on unceded Squamish territory (North Vancouver) and now lives in Victoria on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen people. Her latest book of poetry, Quarrels, was released in May 2018 by Anvil Press. Her book about death and dying, In the Slender Margin (Patrick Crean Editions, 2014; Arcade Publishing 2016), won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award. Her two previous books of poetry, The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were...

A. 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...

Kate 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...

Jessica 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...

Francine 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...

Allie Picketts (she/her) is a musician, parent, writer, teacher and lover of nature. She is thankful to live within the traditional territory of the T'Sou-ke Nation. Allie acknowledges that as a descendent of European settlers, she lives, moves, and creates on the traditional lands of Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth peoples including T’Sou-ke, Pacheedaht, lək̓ʷəŋən, Scia’new, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. May we each continually reflect on the history of the land we live on and consider what we can do...

Harry Posner is a self-published and published poet, author, and editor, whose love of writing evolved in a natural progression from short stories to children’s picture books, to poetry, novels, and spoken word performance. He is currently a member of the Words Aloud Poetry Collective, as well as the Headwaters Writers Guild, Writers Ink Alton, an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and a member of the Writers Union of Canada. As well as teaching creative writing in the area of...

Tanis MacDonald is an essayist, poet, professor and free-range literary animal. She is the host of the podcast Watershed Writers, and the author of Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City. Her essay “Mondegreen Girls” won The Malahat Review's Open Seasons Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2021. She identifies as a bad birder, and lives near Ose’kowáhne in southwestern Ontario as a grateful guest on traditional Haudenosaunee territory. "How to Get Lost in the Woods" appears in...

Nan Williamson is a teacher, artist and author living in Peterborough. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Toronto, 2013. Her chapbook, leave the door open for the moon, was published by Jackson Creek Press in 2015. Always interested in the verbal-visual connection, she plays with shapes, colours, and texture to wed form and content in paint and poetry. More than 80 of her poems have been published in juried literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and the UK.  Her...

In her writing Atma Frans searches for the voice beneath her personas: woman, mother, architect, trauma survivor, queer, yogi, poet. Her poetry has been a finalist for contests and is published in The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework (UK), Lighthouse Literary Journal(UK), and elsewhere. She lives in Gibsons BC where she is working on her debut collection “Despite the Dark.” For more info see: www.spacestobe.org As...