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! i am graffiti This poem vibrates with anger and defiance in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I Feel the Sun This poem articulates the poet’s intense feeling about the sunlight after going through a long winter. 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. Money A museum coin collection prompts a reflection on the captivating nature of currency. Not the Music In Not in the Music, Crozier explores the inviolable: the sacred parts of ourselves that we cherish as personal sanctuaries. My Papa’s Waltz The poet writes a complex poem about his relationship with his father. Marshlands Quietly pause to take in the colours and sounds of a marsh. 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. Before the Birth of One of Her Children This frank, devout poem confronts the risks facing a 17th-century woman in childbirth. Dinosaur Economics In this poem, playful romanticization meets a stark awakening Guanahani, 11 This bracing ballad (re)considers the beauty and history of the Caribbean island where Christopher Columbus first landed. 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. We Wear the Mask We Wear the Mask is a resilient and entrancing tug-of-war with external perceptions of self. Pale Blue Cover In this nostalgic poem, the speaker reminisces about the author Matt Cohen. fluorine Rita Wong uncovers the poisons in everyday life to teach us about our relationship to the natural world. I Lost My Talk How can you speak your deepest truth in a language that doesn’t understand you? 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. I’ll Teach You Cree By sharing with us the untranslatable aspects of Cree culture, Scofield immerses the reader with the sensorial experiences that deepen the bonds of community. 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. Weed Killer Fiona Tinwei Lam moves from personal to universal and back to the personal in this chilling poem about the ecological destruction bequeathed from one generation to the next. 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. from “Road Shoulders” the shoulder of the road gleams with the poet's attention I Feel the Sun This poem articulates the poet’s intense feeling about the sunlight after going through a long winter. Sonoma A dreamlike sense of the uncanny hangs over this poem of an encounter on a coastal highway. Other In Other, Livesay breaks free of patriarchy’s hold and ventures into landscapes of mountain, cedar forests, night skies, and the fierce interior of her spirit. Homage to the Mineral of the Onion (I) Could a vegetable be the antidote to war? This poem thinks so. 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. From Correspondences Anne Michaels challenges us to find new maps to think about old experiences. The Potato Harvest This lonely poem is about so much more than a bare field. Beat! Beat! Drums! With rich bombastic language and Whitman's trademark sprawling lines, this poem rallies troops for war. The Blue Guitar In this glosa poem, P.K. Page strums out questions about being an artist and telling the truth. Qawanguq with Fox Abigail Chabitnoy’s dreamscape of a poem depicts a coy little fox. 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. The Trick The body and the mind are intimately linked and cannot be divorced from each other. 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. Sometimes a Voice (1) On a hot summer afternoon, Danny jumped off the boathouse roof without thinking of the consequences. Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong In this tender poem of healing, care and remembrance, Ocean Vuong reaches out to his younger self. Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page Language English