VALLUM AWARD FOR POETRY 202O WINNER | j tate barlow | WALKING INTO AUGUST IN EAST-END TORONTO 2020

WALKING INTO AUGUST IN EAST-END TORONTO 2020 Is it how spruce don’t think, just do—arrange their boughs for things withwings to dip andglide on through? Or how the yellowcrane looms—strange arabesque-sur-bleu, distraction-dance, wide arcs boom-swung and slow—dwarfing all thatgrows nearby? Stow yourthrone in a box on high look down waydown to read what’s spelled below […]

VALLUM CHAPBOOK AWARD 2021 FINALITS | David Harvgreaves | WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE SOMEDAY

POSTCARD FROM THE ICE STORM — Independence, Oregon. January 2021 Dear N— Gone to bed happy, one hundred percent chance of a snow day, they say— midnight—gun-shot reports of tree-trunks cracked in two, ice-glazed oak chandeliers shattering on the rotunda floor. Utility poles crushing cars, the arctic insurrection cuts internet access, freezing assets and truth conditions. […]