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      <image:title>Poems - Albedo Effect - Jeremy Audet’s writing has been awarded the Bridge Prize and shortlisted for The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. He is the Non-Fiction Editor at yolk.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Diagnosis - Megan Merchant (she/her) is the owner of www.shiversong.com and holds an M.F.A. degree from UNLV. She is a visual artist and, most recently, the author of A Slow Indwelling (Harbor Publications) and Hortensia, in winter (Winner of the New American Poetry Prize). She is the Editor of Pirene’s Fountain. https://meganmerchant.wixsite.com/poet</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Writing Exercise - Dominique Bernier-Cormier is a Québécois/Acadian poet whose work explores notions of hybridity, translation, and belonging. His poems have won Arc’s Poem of the Year, The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Prize, and The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award. His latest book, Entre Rive and Shore, was a finalist for the BC &amp; Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Can’t Be Far - Jed Myers’s third book of poetry, Learning to Hold (Wandering Aengus, 2024), won the Wandering Aengus Press Editors’ Award. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The Poetry Review, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Southern Indiana Review, River Heron Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Seattle and is Editor of Bracken.  Photo by Rosanne Olson.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - [TRAILER] Mission [masculine]: Impossible - Tim Loveday is a writer and an educator. In 2023, he won the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award. In 2022, he won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Award. His work has been widely published. Tim teaches creative writing at RMIT. He is a current PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Unimelb.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Sublimation - Dominique Bernier-Cormier is a Québécois/Acadian poet whose work explores notions of hybridity, translation, and belonging. His poems have won Arc’s Poem of the Year, The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Prize, and The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award. His latest book, Entre Rive and Shore, was a finalist for the BC &amp; Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - A Microdosing, Unemployed Millennial Considers a Termite Colony - Catriona Wright is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her most recent poetry collection, Continuity Errors, was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the poetry collection Table Manners and the short story collection Difficult People. Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Walrus, Grain, The New Quarterly, and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Fields - Bren Simmers is the winner of the CBC Poetry Prize and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. Her latest poetry collection The Work (Gaspereau Press) was a finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards. She lives on Epekwitk/PEI.  Photo by Mike Needham</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - tottenham marshes on the night of the solar eclipse - Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being. She splits her time between Canada and the UK, where she teaches creative writing and is at work on a novel.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Ziad and His Cats - Rebecca O’Connor’s debut collection We’ll Sing Blackbird was shortlisted for the Irish Times Shine Strong Award. Her poetry has been published in the Guardian, Poetry Review and elsewhere. Her debut novel, He Is Mine and I Have No Other, was published in 2018. She is co-founder and director of The Moth.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Poems - You Say You’ve Never Left Home? - Kelly Rowe’s debut collection, Rise Above the River (2023), won the Able Muse Book Award and was a finalist for the Arizona Book Award for Poetry. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Child Bed Fever, and Flying South on the Back of a Dove.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - A Familiar Story - Owen Torrey’s work has appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, Maisonneuve, Geist, Gulf Coast, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Poetry, and elsewhere. His debut collection, Unseasonal, is forthcoming from Signal Editions/Véhicule Press. Owen lives in Providence, RI, where he is an MFA candidate at Brown University.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Poem in Praise of the Hinge - Kelly M. Houle’s poetry has been published in CALYX, Connecticut River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Kenyon Review, Radar Poetry, Sequestrum, and other publications. In 2024 she was named a finalist for the Arts and Letters “Unclassifiable” contest and third place winner of the Vivian Shipley Award from the Connecticut Poetry Society.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - The Door - Emily Berry is the author of three poetry collections published by Faber &amp; Faber: Dear Boy (2013), Stranger, Baby (2017), and Unexhausted Time (2022). She is editor-in-chief of the bedtime stories app Sleep Worlds.  Photo by Sophie Davidson.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Numbered Exercise in Eulogy - Sheryl L. White’s writing has been published in The Comstock Review, The Boston Globe, Arnoldia, The Roanoke Review, among others. She is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Poetry Finalist Grant and has been a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her chapbook, Sky gone, was published in 2020.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Argos - Imogen Wade won the UK’s National Poetry Competition 2023, and was commended in the New Poets Prize, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and The Moth Poetry Prize. She has been published in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, and PN Review. She can be found on Instagram @imogen_wade_poetry.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - String Theory - Wanda Campbell teaches Creative Writing at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She has published a novel Hat Girl, and five collections of poetry, Kalamkari and Cordillera, Daedalus Had a Daughter, Grace, Looking for Lucy, and Sky Fishing as well as books on Early Canadian Women Poets and Bronwen Wallace.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Poems - Interlude - Dominique Bernier-Cormier is a Québécois/Acadian poet whose work explores notions of hybridity, translation, and belonging. His poems have won Arc’s Poem of the Year, The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Prize, and The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award. His latest book, Entre Rive and Shore, was a finalist for the BC &amp; Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.</image:title>
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      <image:title>2026 Poems - Flexible Ghost - Lisa Andrews is the author of The Inside Room  (Indolent Books, 2018), and  Dear Liz (Indolent Books, 2016). Publications include  Cagibi,  Cordella,  Gargoyle,  Painted Bride Quarterly,  Pine Hills Review,  Gargoyle Online,  and the anthologies  Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024), and  Unsinkable: Poetry Inspired by the  Titanic (Salmon Poetry, 2026). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Tony Geiger.</image:title>
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      <image:title>2026 Poems - An Orange - Olive Andrews a writer, textile artist, and library worker living in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Her poetry, reviews, and articles have been published in The Malahat Review, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, PRISM international, CV2, and elsewhere.</image:title>
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