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! What Is Poetry Using only the letters in the title’s question, Holbrook generates a smorgasbord of weird and delightful answers. Guanahani, 11 This bracing ballad (re)considers the beauty and history of the Caribbean island where Christopher Columbus first landed. The Bull Moose A moose's final, tortured moments unfold in a series of brutal images. Community Garden Seeking to escape internet trolls the speaker turns her eye to the garden 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. 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. Journey of the Magi One of the three wise men who travelled to Bethlehem upon the birth of Jesus Christ describes his version of the story and the emotional upheaval he experiences from witnessing a miracle that shatters his previous beliefs and way of life. Marshlands Quietly pause to take in the colours and sounds of a marsh. 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. Passing into Storm Through an objective lens, this poem, which could be a trailer for a horror movie, describes a white man deliberately walking into a snow storm. To what end? World Town Layers of memory paint a moving, vibrant portrait of one man’s time spent in a seaside town with his father. At the Centre In this poem of a woman in deep repose, her seeds of self-care begin to blossom. The Problem With Being a Box Too Small for Its Contents Misch expounds the unbearable work needed after a breakup: to separate from your lost love and “rejoin yourselves…even when you don’t want to.” Not the Music In Not in the Music, Crozier explores the inviolable: the sacred parts of ourselves that we cherish as personal sanctuaries. Plenty Who would have thought a trip to the grocery store could be so full of beauty? 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. Five Postcards from Jericho Postcards to regret, to time, to anyone at all Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong In this tender poem of healing, care and remembrance, Ocean Vuong reaches out to his younger self. 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. The Trick The body and the mind are intimately linked and cannot be divorced from each other. The Tyger In the woods at night, the speaker talks to a magical animal… Qawanguq with Fox Abigail Chabitnoy’s dreamscape of a poem depicts a coy little fox. Buen Esqueleto With its allusions and repetitions, “Buen Esqueleto” speaks powerfully on behalf of families caught in the contemporary U.S. border conflict. In Flanders Fields The dead summon us to action in this much-beloved poem of war. Two Hours on the Train In this deceptively simple poem, a poet on a journey transcends time. 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. The Potato Harvest This lonely poem is about so much more than a bare field. 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. Sonoma A dreamlike sense of the uncanny hangs over this poem of an encounter on a coastal highway. 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? 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. 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. I Feel the Sun This poem articulates the poet’s intense feeling about the sunlight after going through a long winter. From Correspondences Anne Michaels challenges us to find new maps to think about old experiences. Money A museum coin collection prompts a reflection on the captivating nature of currency. I Am The speaker longs to escape himself and to find freedom from within and without Late Prayer Erin Robinsong delivers a quiet and fierce prayer for life on Earth in an age of ecological destruction and oligarchical domination 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. 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. Modestine A woman writes a tender poem about her dad’s struggle with dementia. Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page Language English