Interview by David Ly Tess Liem’s debut full-length collection Obits. (Coach House Books) seeks to find a place where those who are othered can mourn and find themselves. It’s a vulnerable collection, one with layers so intimate to the...
Spooky season is here—and so is the latest issue! The poetry and prose in 58.1 FIGURES show us shapes that manifest, charm, defy, and arouse. You heard that right! As written by editors Molly Cross-Blanchard and Emma Cleary, “We...
Illustration by Nadia Bormotova Get to know writer Senaa Ahmad, whose story “The Women, Before and After” closes our FIGURES issue. Ahmad activates familiar technology to weave generations of women’s voices—distinct, urgent, desirous, and alive—into the narrative. Be sure...
Too Too Too Too Tammy Ho Lai-Ming Math Paper Press, 2019 Review by Kate Rogers Hong Kong poet, academic and translator Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s latest poetry collection Too Too Too Too is political. In light of the kidnappings of...
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the WorldKai Cheng ThomArsenal Pulp Press, 2019 Review by Jaz Papadopoulos When I first heard the phrase “A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the...
The Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize deadline is just around the corner! Kate Black caught up with Katherena Vermette, this year’s contest judge, to talk truth and poetry and what she’s looking for in a winning entry. Katherena is a...
PRISM international is proud to announce the winner of the 2019 Earle Birney Poetry Prize is Michelle Poirier Brown for her poem “Wake” published in issue 57.1: DREAMS, available now! Earle Birney established UBC’s MFA program in Creative Writing...
Photo of Anne Stone by Wayde ComptonPhoto of Wayde Compton by Anne Stone In anticipation of the release of our FIGURES issue (58.1), we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from “Antiquing in Vermont” by Anne Stone and Wayde Compton....
In 2018 I edited the interview collection What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Converstion (Nightwood Editions). In the process, I learned of all the ways an equal conversation between two poets, as opposed to a unidirectional interview,...
