Explore the poems of contemporary poets for the donation price of $2 CDN (in digital format). We’ve also published a special, limited print edition of 100 copies for this first issue of the series: Summer 2025. ($8) Happy reading!
SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella.
MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie
PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH by Michael Mirolla | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH
by Michael Mirolla
Interview by T. Liem with Ockert Greeff // Winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 39)
Congratulations on winning the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award with A Mass Choir of Little Things!
T. Liem: In this work images and memories accumulate with a weighted pace, whole stanzas repeat like time-slowing refrains, and certain words become chant-like as in “A Letter from The Sea” with sea and see. This feels like a particular kind of musicality. Would you talk about where your experience as a drummer intersects with your experience of composing poetry?
Prelude by Jan Zwicky | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem Prelude by Jan Zwicky
Vallum’s Chapbook Award/Contest for 2025 is now officially open!
Check out contest guidelines and send us your best work; we look forward to reading it!
An Inked Shorthand of Marks
T.Liem: The Whole Catastrophe was a pleasure to read. With my pencil in hand, I was tracing ideas, underlining phrases, and noting recurring lines. There is also so much sound-joy in reading it aloud, hearing your patterns of assonance and slant rhyme. It is this musicality that lets readers draw themselves along the earth with your speaker. These are poems which also feel like invitations. Congratulations on this publication and thanks for taking the time to talk about it with me!