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Many thanks to Ian LeTourneau and Chuqiao Yang of The Fiddlehead. This is one of those journals you dream about being a part of. Couldn't be happier to have my poem "The Messenger" appear in this stellar issue!

 

Deeply pleased that Greg McCartney and the team at Honest Ulsterman have a new issue! Thank you for including my poem "Big Water Reveals Itself." It's an extra sweetness to be published beside my husband, James Owens. Reading his poem "Story Begins With the Shifting Away of Desire" is like wading in the pleasure of language.

 

Thanks so much to guest editor Emilee Colyer at Cordite for finding a home for my poem "Wild Strawberries." 

 

I had been looking forward to this issue of On The Seawall for a long time. Deepest thanks to Ron Slate for including two of my poems, "Little Bells" (which references one of my favourite performances by a pianist ever, Evgeny Kissin playing "La Campanella"), and "Land of Joy."  Here's an audio of "Land of Joy." The photo is of my parents on their wedding day. There have been many losses, one way or another, since then, but regardless, it has all been sundogs.

 

Many thanks to Graham Hillard and team of Cumberland River Review for including my poem "August" in the latest issue! Especially pleased with the curation of the poems and how they speak with one another. 

 

It is always exciting to contribute to the Canadian journal Columba! Thanks to Emily Tristan Jones for publishing "North." 

 

Many thanks to Kevin Stein for including my poem, "Arrival," in the latest The Hamilton Stone Review. 

 

Love this international lit magazine. Audrey, Daragh, and Natalie, have my gratitude for choosing to include my poem, "The Body as an Altar in the Understory," in Issue Five of The Marrow!

 

One of the earliest places I read poetry online was at Glass, A Journal of Poetry. A deep thanks to Anthony (Tony) Frame for publishing my poem "Surrender" in this long-loved literary journal.

 

Erin Murphy has put together a wonderful anthology through One Art, The Book of Jobs. Thanks so much for making my poem "Pewter" the concluding poem! 

 

Many thanks to Stephanie Domet of Dalhousie Review for publishing my poem "Getting at the Truth" in the latest issue! (It's one of my beloveds.) 

 

Gratitude to Logan Pollon for choosing my poems "Midsummer" and"Tenebrae" for Issue 84 of Filling Station! And an extra thanks to Ethan Vilu for mentioning me in his editorial!

 

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 that kind note forwarded from a jury member makes me cry in a good way. This is what writing is for. This is why we do what we do. Deep thanks Tanya. (I believe you can hear me reading it here.)

 

Many thanks to Erin Bedford of Pinhole Poetry for publishing a poem and posting an interview. I always appreciate these little windows into other writers' lives.

 

Great thanks to Bear for placing my poems "Small Potatoes"and "If There is a Field" on Verse Daily! Your generosity with me has been stupendous.

 

Many thanks to Nano Taggart (who writes, "This issue is incredible. It's one of my three or four favorite issues in the fifteen years we've been doing this.") and fellow editors at Sugar House Review for accepting my poem "The Christ of Deer and Dishwashers and Baristas."