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Many thanks to Adam Piette and Alex Houen of Blackbox Manifold for publishing my last running poem, "Death-Joy, A Poem of Breath."    And a big thanks to Steve Halle of Spoon River Poetry Review for publishing my poem, "An Ode to Eating Liver" (even though I hate it, sorry liver) in the latest issue!      I was absolutely shocked to learn that Mary Dalton had chosen a poem of mine to be included in the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry 2026 . Thank you thank you thank you! "Ode to Joy" was originally published with Queen's Quarterly . So many thanks to James Carson for originally selecting it publication!   I think gobsmacked was the word I used when responding to the news that my poem "A Walking Prayer" was chosen to win the Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada . I get shivers thinking about this. Many thanks to Lindsey Childs and the team at Prairie Fire for originally publishing the poem and believing in it. And th...

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Praise for At Home with Disquiet: Brian Brett, "Erin Wilson’s collection has the range that a dynamic assortment of poems demands in this era. At Home With Disquiet flows like a northern river through the woods and the canyons and homes along the riverbank, its poems like stories, its poems like chants. This is one of the most powerful gathering of poems I’ve read in years..." Roger Mitchell, "Compelling, urgent, lean, Erin Wilson's poems read as though Emily Dickinson's secret love child ran off to Canada and mated with a wolf." Francesca Bell, "Bursting with abundance and beauty... This is a book of dualities, of not odes but laments..." Abbie Copeland, "A rich poetic narrative, the sensual and delicate moments of life, as well as the small but profound details of hunger, desire, and connection..." Nina Murray, "I would call At Home with Disquiet a triumph—however, this poetry grants no illusion(s)..." Contact erinwrites44[at]gmail[dot]com