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! An Innocent Little Girl Fevziye Rahgozar Barlas captures a snapshot of child marriage, its cultural and economic context, and its physical and emotional aftermath. Dear Updike Evelyn Lau powerfully describes the world around her in order to grieve the loss of a beloved writer. Buen Esqueleto With its allusions and repetitions, “Buen Esqueleto” speaks powerfully on behalf of families caught in the contemporary U.S. border conflict. Not the Music In Not in the Music, Crozier explores the inviolable: the sacred parts of ourselves that we cherish as personal sanctuaries. From Correspondences Anne Michaels challenges us to find new maps to think about old experiences. The Bow What flows through a name, and a name, and a name? Editing the Prairie If the prairie was a written story, imagine the rejection letter it might get! sturgeon Intense with empathy, the poem places poet and struggling fish in direct physical relation. A Breakfast for Barbarians Come sit at this mythical table where guests eat the world’s mysteries for breakfast. Community Garden Seeking to escape internet trolls the speaker turns her eye to the garden Late Prayer Erin Robinsong delivers a quiet and fierce prayer for life on Earth in an age of ecological destruction and oligarchical domination Two Words: A Wedding bpNichol presents life as a river of ever-changing words and asks us to step in. Childhood For Aracelis Girmay, “Childhood” is a place we can visit in our memories—and perhaps a place that moves on without us. The Bull Moose A moose's final, tortured moments unfold in a series of brutal images. I saw a perfect tree today Lillian Allen praises the rampant diversity of trees in Northern Ontario and asks us to see perfection in difference. Laurentian Shield This portrait of a rocky, silent Canadian landscape speaks to the country’s limitations and its potential. One Art When loss feels inevitable, sometimes the only thing to do is write it down… The Days of the Unicorns Phyllis Webb beautifully writes an ode to the majestic unicorn. Where There’s a Wall Both beauty and violence are just on the other side of the wall. fluorine Rita Wong uncovers the poisons in everyday life to teach us about our relationship to the natural world. Yellowjacket “Yellowjacket” explores the eerie way the dead make themselves at home in our lives. Five Postcards from Jericho Postcards to regret, to time, to anyone at all Letters In this tender poem tracing a lost love, the speaker holds on by letting things go… The Bull Moose A moose's final, tortured moments unfold in a series of brutal images. From Red Doc In this poem-as-a-conversation, a man and his mother consider how the past lives on in the present. 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. World Town Layers of memory paint a moving, vibrant portrait of one man’s time spent in a seaside town with his father. From the Catalogue of Cruelty “From the Catalogue of Cruelty” reminisces on a series of hurtful acts the speaker committed in her childhood and folds in generational violence, state violence, and Greek myth. 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. 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? Plenty Who would have thought a trip to the grocery store could be so full of beauty? From One and Half of You Trying on traditional clothing and finding how it fits. Or not. Autobiography of My Hungers A poem that explores private desire and longing, and the pain of homophobia. Death of a Young Son by Drowning Blurring time but clarifying feeling, this poem gives voice to a mother who loses a son and gains a country. The Fatigue Fatigue is often the first sign something is wrong with one's body. Fatigue looms larger than life in this poem which grapples with meds, family, and coping. Low Tide on Grand Pré The setting sun gives rise to a treasured memory of Grand Pré in this somber, rhythmic poem. But I’m No One But I’m No one is a reflection on our tendency to fear death and the manifestation of this fear through uncanny beliefs. 400: Coming Home You can’t help thinking about your life on a long stretch of highway. Money A museum coin collection prompts a reflection on the captivating nature of currency. the knowing Connie Fife cryptically combines land and body in this poem exploring connection to place and past. Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page Language English