“He leaned over it and said, ‘Kah-nnn-eye-ffff. It’s kahneyff.’”
MERCEDES ENG
The legend of the craft brewery of Medicine Hat
Fuelling dreams with craft breweries.
J.R. MCCONVEY
Best Possible You
"Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing at all, to sink to the bottom and fill with water, and be still."
KELSEA O'CONNOR
Venus's Fifth Dimension
Vegas’ Flashing Decadence and Victoria’s Frank Disinterest.
Pablo Strauss
Your Lives
"Yesterday evening you spent in conversation with Cleverbot, a chatbot capable of more-or-less coherent conversation."
SHEILA KINDELLAN-SHEEHAN
First Degree Character Assassination
The colorful character list from "The Gang of Four: A Toni Damiano Mystery."
MATHIEU POULIN
On Being and Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf and Michael Bay meet at cocktail hour to discuss destiny, metaphysics and the limits of love.
LINDSAY WONG
Unnecessary Wake-up Call
Camping with the family.
GEORGE K. ILSLEY
Another Woman In Canada
A collection of one star reviews of Dear Life by Alice Munro.
D.A. LOCKHART
Letter to Berton from the Lift Lock at Peterborough, ON
Dear Pierre, Couldn’t help but think of you when Lester declared that settlers don’t need storytellers when they have engineers to project mythologies.
ERIK DIDRIKSEN
LXVIII
Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69" reimagined as a sonnet.
ROGER FARR
I Am A City Still But Soon I Shan’t Be
"Were not about space but territory not politics / but police borders bodies while debates / about acts were completely saturated."
Christy Ann Conlin
Slim and Trim
A reminder of high school, back fat and saggy tits.
VINCENT PAGÉ
Water Mists and Sprays so Effective
"Fog buries the hill / and I don’t know how to mourn a cat."
JILLIAN CHRISTMAS
black feminist
"They said I could be a feminist / as long as I don’t talk about this black girl body."
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
The Wasteful Canadians
There were always so many uses for things nobody seemed to want—old furniture, lamb heads and refrigerators with expired warranty.
JOANN MCCAIG
Woman Meets Man
In which romance inspires art and life trudges on.
Occasional Poem
"You are a well-respected man."
ANNHARTE
One Way to Keep Track of Who is Talking
"I do not intend to become the world’s greatest Indian orator. Maybe I might by accident."
ALESSANDRA NACCARATO
It Could Be a Virus
It could be pollution, or loneliness. / Or maybe bacteria. It could all be your fault.
PRISCILA UPPAL
Elevator Shoes
Accidents are, by their definition, unpredictable affairs.
LUCY ELLMANN
Water Wings
"...no harm done, touch wood, count your blessings, rabbits’ feet."
CARY FAGAN
Love Letters in The Sand
There's "Lost", "Very Lost" and "Give Up all Hope."
Susie Taylor
You Jump, I Jump, Jack
In grade six everyone had a Cabbage Patch, not a "Crochet Kid" from the bazaar at church.
