In this months podcast we introduce you to Kurdish activist, humanitarian, speaker, and writer in exile, Ms. Ava Homa. She believes in the power of books, and her love for writing can be felt in the depth of her imagery and the power of her spirit. In our interview she shares her work and herContinue reading “Ava Homa in Conversation with Jane SpokenWord”
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WordCity Literary Journal. January 2021. Issue 5
Letter from the Editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack Welcome to 2021: Year of the Vaccine. To say that we are all aching towards a time when the Covid19 pandemic has been lifted from us, and the shroud of solitude and loss along with it, would understate how desperately we all wanted to turn this calendar. NothingContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. January 2021. Issue 5”
3 poems by Joan McNerney
Falling Down into dusty subterraneous passages where trains race. Silver rods sped through dream stations transforming tunnels with bolts of blue white sparks. On a steel car looking out the window. Careening in pitch black. On edge, through trees into lights, crashing fast against buildings. Forgotten Like a worn slipperContinue reading “3 poems by Joan McNerney”
3 poems by Alexander Nderitu
The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese The moon is made of green cheese, The star of ‘Titanic’ was John Cleese, Canada is slightly smaller than Greece, Corn is closely related to black-eyed peas, Honey comes from birds, not bees, Elephants sometimes climb trees, Prophet Muhammed roamed the high seas, Top lawyers don’t chargeContinue reading “3 poems by Alexander Nderitu”
Group Therapy. A poem by Michael Lee Johnson
Group Therapy Wind chimes. It’s going to rain tonight, thunder. I’m going to lead the group tonight talking about Rational Emotive Therapy, belief challenges thought change, Dr. Albert Ellis. I’m a hero in my self-worship, self-infused patient of my pain, thoughtful, probabilistic atheism with a slant toward Jesus in private. Rules roll gently creeping throughContinue reading “Group Therapy. A poem by Michael Lee Johnson”
2 Poems by Debra Black
an incalculable loss grief tumbles out of me like water spiraling, bubbling, weaving, washing over pebbles in a river bed, eroding the land and me until all that is left are enervated neurons lost in a dance of discomfort, a dance with the dead — who are never really gone, nor never really here.Continue reading “2 Poems by Debra Black”
3 Poems by Chad Norman
HOW TO KNOW A SINGLE TREE After entering a small parental forest for some reason I see an Australian desert and hear a story about a woman who sought the shade of a single tree. I don’t know if she found it. Inside the actions of Autumn leaves choosing their colours, choicesContinue reading “3 Poems by Chad Norman”
3 Poems by Pui Ying Wong
VESPER May the old roof hold off the rain, the garden staying a garden and not a grave. May there be coffee in the morning cup and sunlight, even a sliver suffices. May there be clean dishes, napkins on the table, two of each. May this house be fortified withContinue reading “3 Poems by Pui Ying Wong”
Not-Long Distance. A poem by Jaclyn Griffith
Not-Long Distance It’s easier to love you on paper where everything is polished up planned ahead Where every word walks from your hands to my eyes and looks a lot like sunset Looks a lot like a garden Looks a lot like me In person not so much In person we are messyContinue reading “Not-Long Distance. A poem by Jaclyn Griffith”
What I Want. An ekphrastic poem by Dawn Promislow
“Mobile garden dress” by Nicole Dextras, as seen in installation at Todmorden Mills, Toronto, July 2014. What I want What i want to know is, yellow lady, light midsummer light yes you, yellow-skirt dandelion, lionness potted pothead on Pottery Road potting pots potting about lady skirting there yes, you mellow yellow-dappledContinue reading “What I Want. An ekphrastic poem by Dawn Promislow”
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