Join us on July 23, 2022 at 3:30 PM ET for an online launch of issue 19:1 “Bridges.” Featuring readings from Robyn Maree Pickens, Meghan Kemp-gee, Matthew James Weigel, Julie Mannell, and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi! The reading will be approximately 1-hour and Zoom’s closed captioning will be turned on. The event is open to all […]
Issue 19:1 Bridges Is Here!
19:1 | Bridges This issue features an interview with bpNichol Chapbook Award-winning poet Matthew James Weigel and new poems by rob mclennan, Johnson Cheu, Jami Macarty, and more. The issue also includes poems from the 2021 Vallum Poetry Award winners, Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi and Robyn Maree Pickens, as well as reviews by Bill Neumire and Deanna Fong. Artwork is from […]
Nora Kelly | ENTANGLED
Winner of the 2022 Vallum Cover Award “Entangled” is a series of paintings dealing with the emotional and psychic landscapes brought about by the pandemic. In the artist’s own words: When the pandemic hit in 2020, the world quickly transitioned from “normal” to the unfamiliar: new rules, new information and new ways to live our […]
Robert Hogg | DELIBERATIONS AT KITSILANO POINT
Hands
on the iron rail
guarding
against the sea
Julie Mannell | I COULD BE SOMEBODY WHO SOMEBODY COULD CALL ON
I know what it means to feel sorry
I’ve been sorry
Tola Sylvan | JUNCTION FULL OF LIGHT
The relief of rainstorm. They were both happy
to see again. The court choir broke open
Alex Starr | WHORLD
It is a serious
responsibility
Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi | CHRISTMAS 20**
I don’t know who
or I pretend not to know
Jerry Prager | TAKING THE FERRY
From Hanlons to Centre I walk.
My parents were married on these islands, in the town