Poetry
Agoraphobia
I left my face in the birth canal As my bloody body slid Into the white waspy gloves of the nurse That wept through my coronation Into white middle class …
Know Your Worth
She said to me one day, I think she will have a hard time finding a man. Why? I asked. Because she is more ‘traditional’, if you know what I …
bedroom rites
im sitting in my bed tail bone tucked beneath knees that keel over inside your bedroom when your ready to let my heart swoon backwards over bedsides and bedside …
Make Yourself a Home
Make yourself a home Even if it is a makeshift shack Of wood and twigs and leaves Or of rocks and strips of cardboard Find yourself a home Find it …
Poetry review: An Accord of Poets – (Almost) all things in segments of five
Photo by Cameron Anstee Five poets, five days, four cities… Shit, they broke the pattern. Jeff Blackman, jesslyn delia smith, Cameron Anstee, Justin Million and Rachel Simpson, are described as …
“This shit just works”
Downtown Peterborough at night is a busy place to be. Families are out to dinner, couples are on dates and as the night gets darker, Peterborough begins to show all …
Trent student Beth Lexah publishes ‘Spilt Milk’
During my two years in Peterborough, I have been lucky enough to meet an amazing community of poets within the downtown spoken word core, as well as page poets making …
Poetry, Language, and the Power of Affect: Speaking with Ian Keteku
On Saturday, Feb. 22, I attended an intensive Spoken Word workshop organized by the Peterborough Poetry Collective. Award-winning poet Ian Keteku facilitated the workshop at the Theatre on King. Keteku …