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! The Trick The body and the mind are intimately linked and cannot be divorced from each other. The Potato Harvest This lonely poem is about so much more than a bare field. 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 Common Magic Do you ever wonder how anything gets done when we’re all swirling in our own galaxies of thought and experience? This poem does too. Thou Poem A poet reveals the happiest and unhappiest parts of their poetry – in conversation with a poem. From One and Half of You Trying on traditional clothing and finding how it fits. Or not. Tide Both stark and tender, this poem is about Reena Virk, a BC teen of South Asian descent who was assaulted and murdered by her peers in 1997. World Town Layers of memory paint a moving, vibrant portrait of one man’s time spent in a seaside town with his father. Cold Solace Even after many months in the freezer, a honey cake calls up strong memories. Chemo Side Effects: Memory The stop-start, grasping form of this poem mirrors the speaker's struggle to reconcile herself with one of the side effects of cancer treatment. Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong In this tender poem of healing, care and remembrance, Ocean Vuong reaches out to his younger self. 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 In Flanders Fields The dead summon us to action in this much-beloved poem of war. i am graffiti This poem vibrates with anger and defiance in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 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 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. The Lonely Land In this free verse poem, snapshots of a wild landscape show that beauty and conflict are not mutually exclusive — and that one may be derived from the other. 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. The Potato Harvest This lonely poem is about so much more than a bare field. A Breakfast for Barbarians Come sit at this mythical table where guests eat the world’s mysteries for breakfast. The Swimmer’s Moment Will you choose to observe from the rim of the whirlpool, or its centre? Guanahani, 11 This bracing ballad (re)considers the beauty and history of the Caribbean island where Christopher Columbus first landed. An Innocent Little Girl • Favzieh Rahgozar Barlas captures a snapshot of child marriage, its cultural and economic context, and its physical and emotional aftermath. 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. Insomnia A dark, playful twist on what someone would do if they could only sleep… Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen brilliantly uses rhyme and meter in this brutal poem about a poison gas attack during WWI. 1992 Sometimes a scent or a site or a taste can sweep you up into the past. This finely honed narrative poem knows what that’s like. Sometimes a Voice (1) On a hot summer afternoon, Danny jumped off the boathouse roof without thinking of the consequences. The Visions of Stone Carrier In this dreamlike piece exploring memory and primogeniture, N. Scott Momaday casts a haunting spell that transports the reader through mystery and reminiscence. 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. Homage to the Mineral of the Onion (I) Could a vegetable be the antidote to war? This poem thinks so. I Feel the Sun This poem articulates the poet’s intense feeling about the sunlight after going through a long winter. In Flanders Fields The dead summon us to action in this much-beloved poem of war. I Lost My Talk How can you speak your deepest truth in a language that doesn’t understand you? Opus 75, Sestina in B-flat for the Glockenspiel A silent glockenspiel plays out a teenage girl’s anxieties about growing up and fitting in. The Bull Moose A moose's final, tortured moments unfold in a series of brutal images. Northern Light A poem about belonging when one doesn't feel like they are completely at home 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. Community Garden Seeking to escape internet trolls the speaker turns her eye to the garden Marshlands Quietly pause to take in the colours and sounds of a marsh. Pagination 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page Language English