Volume XXXI Number 2 | Fall 2021 |
Editors | Crystal Mackenzie and Micheline Maylor |
Cover | Matthew O’Reilly |
Poetry Winners | |
Matthew King | Two-Faced Kitten, and Other Freaks of Nature |
Michael Fraser | Things to Do Around Edmonton When You’re Black |
Bret Crowle | Drumheller |
Lisa Richter | What the Fool Remembers |
Prose Winners | |
Zilla Jones | Pie Jesu |
Calvin Minions | Sasha Lived on a Farm |
Neil C. Griffin | The Bus to the Massacre Site Leaves in Ten Minutes |
Dan Auger | Blood Memory |
Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence | |
Laura Zacharin | Please Don’t Put Your Leftover Lunch in the Chat Box |
Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award | |
Bruce Meyer | Pas de Deux |
Micah Jansen | The Slightly Awkward and Mildly Entertaining Tale of a Low-Grade Lifeguard |
Poetry | |
Dan MacIsaac | Bull Kelp Chameleon |
Cheryl White | At My Back |
Matt Sutton | If I Was at Home I Wouldn’t Need This Drink in the First Place A Letter to Bukowski From a Previous Lover on Her Death Bed |
Alec Whitford | The Whiffle Ball |
Shannon Barry | Tendinitis |
Marlene Grand Maître | Riven Heeding Water’s Voice |
Russell Thornton | While You Brushed Your Hair |
Jonathan Greenhause | The Day Abraham Lincoln & I Went Bowling |
Brian Day | The Fisherman’s Wife A Tapestry |
Mary Ann Moore | A Ceremony in the Forest |
Barbara Pelman | Lost Names |
Joanna Drummond | Will-o’-wisp |
Zack Beer | (non) Binary |
Tonya Lailey | Don’t Bring Me Flowers |
Lynn Tait | The Enemies I Cannot See |
Michael Fraser | Solstice |
Lisa Richter | Three Years, Two Months and Twelve Days After My Father Dies Overseas |
Essay | |
Micheline Maylor | Confessional Poets Now |
Reviews | |
Annie Wesko | If Sylvie Had Nine Lives by Leona Theis Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio |
Catherine Owen | First by Arleen Paré |
Vincent Potter | Shelter for the Damned by Mike Thorn |
Skylar Kay | For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin All the Animals on Earth by Mark Sampson Music From a Strange Planet by Barbara Black |