Katayoun Salmasi (Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) reviews Where Words Defeat Bullets: Poems for the Iranian People and Their 2026 Uprising (Asemana Books)

Published by Asemana Books (March 19, 2026) WHERE WORDS DEFEAT BULLETS An Anthology Poems for Iranian People and Their 2026 Uprising Compiled by Mansour Noorbakhsh Albert Moritz, Bruce Meyer, Susan…

Issues by Patrick Connors March 15, 2026 | Essay | Warned I open the blinds and let in a sky so smoggy I keep my reading lamp on even though it is well over an

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "The Professor" by Patrick Connors, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in November 2020.

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Patrick Connors is a widely published Canadian poet, author of Scarborough Songs and The Long Defeat, with recent work featured in Spadina Literary Review and performances at major literary events.

Patrick Connors’ Bio Patrick Connors first chapbook, Scarborough Songs, was released by Lyricalmyrical Press in 2013, and charted on the Toronto Poetry Map. Other publication credits inc…

In his poem, “The Day of My Dad’s Memorial,” Patrick Connors remembers his late father.

Pat Connors Poetry |Popular poet of modern Canada

Broken Kinstugi is a pottery technique using lacquer from an urushi tree mixed with gold powder to fix ceramic cups and bowls. With patient mastery, beloved objects are restored. We have all…

On the subway platform feeling full and slightly woozy after supper with a longtime friend I hadn’t seen since before the pandemic a large man held a very petite woman, her spine bound and trapped pe...

Grab a drink and settle in to browsing over 60 poems, published in dozens of journals and websites from all across Canada - and all by members of the League.

I am a cradle Catholic ecumenical Christian communist sympathizing far-left socialist with a capitalist day job that makes me very unhappy even though I am quite good at it. Do I contain multitudes? I...

scribbles, image by H G, on Pixabay, slightly modifiedPreparation "Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the powerand the glory and the victory and the majesty,for all that is in the heavens and the ear...

"After the remarkable success of Patrick Connors’ first book of poetry, The Other Life: Poems, and the impact Covid had on our lives, the poet’s new collection, The Long Defeat, is now available. As t...

Poetry By Patrick Connors: Canadian poet

Spirit Fire Review is a Magazine of Celebration-Changing the world through love! Honoring the Holy Spirit through Poetry, Visual Art, Testimony, and Song.

TeenagerLook out the wind-blown windowThrough the evergreen tree gone bareSun unseen lights the grey skyOf air so cold even time is slowedUntil a bitter, vengeful gustThreatens to take down the tre…

The powers that be don't come into work every day. Only on alternate Tuesday's or if they feel like it or if there is a REALLY BIG MEETING. When they are here, we realize they are talking about us, an...

Host Hollay Ghadery interviews Jo Deluzio on the book “Just Gone: True Stories For Love And Life” (Re:Books Publishing), and poet Pat Connors on his latest collection “The Long Defeat” (Mosaic Press)