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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.)

It had been a longtime goal of mine to be published in Lake Effect. Finally, "Late Summer" appeared in the latest issue. Thank you George! 
 
Many thanks to Stewart Donovan of Nashwaak Review for accepting five poems, "The Sound of Cells2," "Intricate Ankle," "Statistics," "Late Capitalism," and "Bookcloth."
 
Thanks again to Michael Blanchard of Slant for publishing my poem "Not Lost," and my husband's poem, "Photographs of the Tombs" (by James Owens).
 
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.
 
Received my copy of The Literary Review of Canada today! Gratitude to Moira MacDougall for publishing my poem "New Year's Eve on the Swamp," and more thanks to LRC's David Venn for asking for more poetry. "Wealth and Morality, AKA the Good Stuff" will soon be featured in Bookworm.
 
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.
 
What a surprise! Deep thanks to Philip Fried for including three of my poems in The Manhattan Review, "Small Potatoes," Small Talk," and "The Apogee of Pencils." 
 
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."

Thanks to Cassia, Aisling, and Emily, for publishing my poem "The Understory in Autumn" in Channel's Issue 11. And thanks for all the extra effort that goes into video launching the magazine!

                                                                                 


(photo by me, as seen in Channel Magazine launch)

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

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