Also in GEIST 130

“Reading Comprehension” by TAWAHUM BIGE

“In the Beginning, There Was Erasure” by SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU

“A Guide to Dim Sum” by DONNA SETO

Cover art by TONIA NNEJI

More artists in this issue: ELLE D. ABLO, TEREZA ALLEN, KIM COLLINS, AISLINN GALLIVAN, SAMUEL GARLAND, ZION GREENE-BULL, KIP JOHL, JEROME STUEART

…and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

Winners of the 2024 Occasional Geist Short Long-Distance Writing Contest

Villanelle for the Blue Line by Daniel Allen Cox

Road Trip with Wind Chill by Judy LeBlanc

Bric-á-Brac by Grace Bowness

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NOTES & DISPATCHES

The Luck of the Meat Draw by Jordan Kawchuk

Yams by Denise Da Costa

Some Ribs by Gráinne Downey

Gesundheitskarte by José Teodoro

Five Stories about Fire by Jessica Bakar

Suicide Forest by Alexis MacIsaac

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FINDINGS

“What Is the Problem with Canada?” by Bruce McIvor

“Reading Comprehension” by Tawahum Bige

Extract from “Endsickness” by Sofia Alarcon

“In the Beginning, There Was Erasure” by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

“Jol Ene, Jolene, Joline, Jolyne” compiled by Kelsea O'Connor

“A Guide to Dim Sum” by Donna Seto

“Running from That Damn School, That Damn Barn” by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)

“How to Have a Hot Girl Summer” by Kyo Lee

“East Van Elegy” by Rodney DeCroo

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ENDNOTES

Playlist: A Profligacy of Your Least-Expected Poems by Michael Turner, reviewed by Michael Hayward

The Art of Banksy Without Limits, reviewed by Peggy Thompson

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., reviewed by Angela Runnals

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger, reviewed by Thad McIlroy

Ville-Marie directed by Guy Edoin, reviewed by Cornelia Mars

A Heap of Texas Trouble by Carolyn Brown, reviewed by Lascia Tagen

Eephus directed by Carson Lund, reviewed by Morgan Maclaren Beck

Sylvia’s Garden, Version II by Emmanuel Osahor, reviewed by Malaika Mitra

Willis Wonderland: The Legendary House of Atomic Kitsch by Hillary Carlip, reviewed by Patty Osborne

When I Get Home by Solange Knowles, reviewed by Ranveer Joshua Jadhav

Yarns at Yin Hoo, reviewed by Patty Osborne

Nothing Will Be Different by Tara McGowan-Ross, reviewed by CorneliaMars

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AND THE GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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