These poems each have a set of guided questions, related videos that allow for deeper investigation, and suggested writing activities. We'll be adding more poems here soon! La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad What would you ask a knight if you found him alone and palely loitering along a barren path? The Potato Harvest This lonely poem is about so much more than a bare field. Editing the Prairie If the prairie was a written story, imagine the rejection letter it might get! Fear of Snakes The life of a snake and the memory of girlhood trauma are told in sinuously entwined language. Letters In this tender poem tracing a lost love, the speaker holds on by letting things go… Marshlands Quietly pause to take in the colours and sounds of a marsh. Pale Blue Cover In this nostalgic poem, the speaker reminisces about the author Matt Cohen. Dinosaur Economics In this poem, playful romanticization meets a stark awakening I Feel the Sun This poem articulates the poet’s intense feeling about the sunlight after going through a long winter. Blank Sonnet Set in Halifax of the 1930s, this sensual, inebriated love poem plays with the sonnet form. Before the Birth of One of Her Children This frank, devout poem confronts the risks facing a 17th-century woman in childbirth. Two Words: A Wedding bpNichol presents life as a river of ever-changing words and asks us to step in. Two Words: A Wedding bpNichol presents life as a river of ever-changing words and asks us to step in. Community Garden Seeking to escape internet trolls the speaker turns her eye to the garden An English Speaking Doctor Translates the Concerns of his Patient with Google/Un Docteur Anglophone Traduit Les Inquiétudes De Son Patient Avec Google This bilingual poem expresses the limitations of understanding across languages when experiences become lost in translation. The Swimmer’s Moment Will you choose to observe from the rim of the whirlpool, or its centre? Not the Music In Not in the Music, Crozier explores the inviolable: the sacred parts of ourselves that we cherish as personal sanctuaries. aubade for the BPD subreddit user who wrote can people with BPD love? The stunningly cruel comments of an internet forum reverberate throughout a sleepless night Dear Updike Evelyn Lau powerfully describes the world around her in order to grieve the loss of a beloved writer. My sister cries the sea In this poem of environmental apocalypse, Mordecai pictures a divided planet as her sister, listening to the voices of plants and fish as they mourn habitat destruction in creole the ghosts of women once girls Poet Aja Monet reveals both gladness and sadness from a little girl enraptured by literature. A Breakfast for Barbarians Come sit at this mythical table where guests eat the world’s mysteries for breakfast. fluorine Rita Wong uncovers the poisons in everyday life to teach us about our relationship to the natural world. Plenty Who would have thought a trip to the grocery store could be so full of beauty? Vancouver Lights This wartime poem looks out at Vancouver’s nighttime skyline and contemplates humanity. A Breakfast for Barbarians Come sit at this mythical table where guests eat the world’s mysteries for breakfast. Echolalia Exploring the tension between desire and satisfaction, this is “a poem that you have to kiss your way through without being kissed,” says Williams. sturgeon Intense with empathy, the poem places poet and struggling fish in direct physical relation. dont worry yr hair Having a bad day? This uplifting poem about the power of our inner potential should light a spark. I Lost My Talk How can you speak your deepest truth in a language that doesn’t understand you? The ABG (Able-Bodied Gaze) The abled-bodied gaze is an intrusive force in this poem, making a spectacle of a disabled body and attempting to reduce them to their impairment. An English Speaking Doctor Translates the Concerns of his Patient with Google/Un Docteur Anglophone Traduit Les Inquiétudes De Son Patient Avec Google This bilingual poem expresses the limitations of understanding across languages when experiences become lost in translation. From Red Doc In this poem-as-a-conversation, a man and his mother consider how the past lives on in the present. From One and Half of You Trying on traditional clothing and finding how it fits. Or not. Fast Commute Laurie Graham weathers an incongruous ice storm in this poem-excerpt that asks us to pause and understand that we are present here, “and with this understanding to start to hear.” Qawanguq with Fox Abigail Chabitnoy’s dreamscape of a poem depicts a coy little fox. fluorine Rita Wong uncovers the poisons in everyday life to teach us about our relationship to the natural world. Famous In Famous, Naomi Nye speaks to the relationship between objects and the ideas they represent. She is as famous to the poem as the poem is famous its words. The Powwow at the End of the World Sherman Alexie slams the environmental destruction of settler-colonialism as we travel on an upstream course towards the powwow at the end of the world. An Innocent Little Girl • Favzieh Rahgozar Barlas captures a snapshot of child marriage, its cultural and economic context, and its physical and emotional aftermath. Pagination 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page Language English