In our bed we try to banish the bad luckwe’ve acquired. We openall the windows and I chantmy sorrows into the sun-chokedtrees. Your seduction techniqueneeds work, you tease. But namingwhat weighs me d...

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Sometimes, there is happinessSometimes, if you take a day apart, piece by layer, piece by layer, you might just glimpse it. It’s there, in a promise, in a pair of short legs pounding—a tumbling tide s...

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Perry Gasteiger (they/them) is a non-binary Canadian poet who focuses on the mundanity of existence through a lens of empathetic consideration. Bringing attention to the extraordinary nature of lif…

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A blog post by expert poetry tutor Katrina Naomi on how to get your poetry published in literary journals and magazines