Check out these Canadian poetry collections we’re excited about in fall 2025!
Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw
Stigmata is a poetry collection by Scott Jackshaw. (Nathan Maher Levy, Talonbooks)
Stigmata draws on inspiration from a wide archive of practices and texts including body horror, postculturalism, queer theory and apophatic theology. The collection of poems combines the “sacred” of theology and the “profane” of leaking and lust to create a treacherous journey through the cross-currents of religion and sexual deviancy.
Stigmata is out now.
Scott Jackshaw is a scholar, editor and poet from Edmonton. Their writing has appeared in The Capilano Review, CV2 and Jacket2.
We’re Somewhere Else Now by Robyn Sarah
We’re Somewhere Else Now is a poetry collection by Robyn Sarah. (Stephen Brockwell, Biblioasis)
We’re Somewhere Else Now is the first collection of new poems from Robyn Sarah in a decade. It chronicles the pandemic years with Sarah’s flair for combining the spiritual with the familiar. The poems touch on grief, unexpected change and the awe of the human experience.
We’re Somewhere Else Now is out now.
Sarah is the author of 12 collections of poems, two books of short stories and a book of essays on poetry. My Shoes Are Killing Me won the 2015 Governor General’s Award for poetry. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies. She lives in Montreal.
NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch
NMLCT is a poetry collection by Paul Vermeersch. (Adam Wilson, ECW Press)
Paul Vermeersch pulls from fairy tales and fables, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and monstrous myths. Vermeersch’s eighth collection of poetry, NMLCT, grapples with the distinction between what’s real and what isn’t and seeks to examine how we view reality in the age of algorithms and a “post-truth” society littered with misinformation and computer generated images.
NMLCT is out now.
Vermeersch is a poet, artist and editor from Toronto. He currently teaches at Sheridan College. Vermeersch holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph for which he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal. His other poetry collections include The Reinvention of the Human Hand, Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy and Shared Universe.
An Orange, A Syllable by Gillian Sze
An Orange, A Syllable is a poetry collection by Gillian Sze. (Nadia Zheng, ECW Press)
An Orange, A Syllable focuses on motherhood, language and art as the central speaker bears witness to her child’s first words raising questions about signification and significance. Each prose poem toggles between definitions of “fit” while the final section of the book uses words to deconstruct the work of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi — specifically his paintings of empty rooms.
An Orange, A Syllable is out now.
Gillian Sze is a Winnipeg-based writer and teacher. She is the author of the children’s books The Night Is Deep and Wide and You Are My Favorite Color, which was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Award. Her poetry collections include Quiet Night Think, which won the 2023 Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
LISTEN / Gillian Sze on An Orange, A Syllable:
All in a Weekend12:09“An Orange, A Syllable” explores how language develops from baby to child
Something for the Dark by Randy Lundy
Something for the Dark is a poetry collection by Randy Lundy. (Randy Lundy, University of Regina Press)
The final book in a trilogy that includes Blackbird Song and Field Notes for the Self, Something for the Dark uses poetry to examine our relationship with the land, animals and people — looking at how our failures to acknowledge other beings inevitably leads to heartbreak. Randy Lundy’s poems recount his experiences that transcend language and challenges readers to notice what was once unseen.
Something for the Dark is out now.
Lundy is a short story writer, poet and member of the Barren Lands (Cree) First Nation. He also teaches creative writing and Indigenous literature at Campion College in the University of Regina. Born and raised in Manitoba, he now lives in Pense, Sask.
Lundy has four other poetry collections, Under the Night Sun, published in 1999, Gift of the Hawk, published in 2004, Field Notes for the Self and Blackbird Song.
Crohnic by Jason Purcell
Crohnic is a poetry collection by Jason Purcell. (Zachary Ayotte, Arsenal Pulp Press)
Crohnic is a collection of moving poems about navigating the medicated life. The poems chart two years of Jason Purcell’s treatment for Crohn’s disease and ponders what it means to live while relying on an interminable course of medication that helps you in some ways but hurts in others.
Crohnic is out now.
Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwaciwaskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. Their first full length collection was Swollening.
The Idea of An Entire Life by Billy-Ray Belcourt 
The Idea of An Entire Life is a poetry collection by billy-ray belcourt. (Jaye Simpson, McClelland & Stewart)
The Idea of An Entire Life is an intimate exploration of anguish, love, queerness and political possibility in the twenty-first century. The collection combines lyric verse, sonnets and fragments to craft poems in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s usual autobiographical and philosophical style — arguing that we are all our own monuments of grief and awe.
The Idea of An Entire Life is out now.
Belcourt is a writer from Driftpile Cree Nation in Alberta. His debut collection of poetry, This Wound is a World, is unapologetically Indigenous and queer at the same time. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain without giving up on the future.
Belcourt won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for This Wound is a World. The collection also won the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award for most significant work of poetry in English and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry.
A Scent of India by Sasenarine Persaud
A Scent of India is a poetry collection by Sasenarine Persaud. (Denise Noone, Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.)
The poems in A Scent of India draws on the many facets of India — the culture, languages, philosophies, spices, musical rhythms and ancient dances. Sasenarine Persaud uses poetry to trace the history of the Indian diaspora in the Americas, starting in Guyana and Trinidad and eventually Canada and the U.S.
A Scent of India is out now.
Born in Guyana, Persaud has published essays in various journals about Yogic Realism, the term he originated. He is the author of 15 books of prose and poetry. He has lived in Canada and now makes his home in Florida. His previous collection of poems is Mattress Makers where he explores his Indian roots through language, traditions, music and paying homage to beloved writers.
A Bow Forged from Ash by Melissa Powless Day
A Bow Forged from Ash is a poetry collection by Melissa Powless Day. (Palimpsest Press)
A Bow Forged from Ash is a journey of Indigenous reclamation that explores wholeness, responsibility, belonging and identity. Melissa Powless Day transverses ancestral memory, lived experience, family experiences and critical engagements with the land. Her poems voice complex stories about community bonds and the messiness of returning home — and prove that reclamation and resistance are inseparable.
A Bow Forged from Ash is out now.
Powless Day is an Anishinaabe and Kanien’kehá:ka poet from Bkejwanong Territory (Walpole Island First Nation). Her first chapbook, Secondhand Moccasins was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. She is also pursuing a PhD in Indigenous Education at Western University.
The Alphabet of Aliens by Sabyasachi Nag
The Alphabet of Aliens is a poetry collection by Sabyasachi Nag. (sachiwrites.com, Mawenzi House Publishers)
The intensely personal and eerily atmospheric prose poems in The Alphabet of Aliens create a book that is an ambitious autobiography, dream book, diary and field guide. The collection explores themes of personal and shared histories along with the experience of being tied to a specific place.
The Alphabet of Aliens is out now.
Sabyasachi Nag is the author of the novels Uncharted and Hands Like Trees — and three collections of poetry. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia and the craft editor at The Artisanal Writer. He was born in Calcutta and lives in Mississauga, Ont.
What Is Broken Binds Us by Lorne Daniel
What is Broken Binds Us is a poetry collection by Lorne Daniel. (www.lornedaniel.ca, University of Calgary Press)
What Is Broken Binds Us is a collection responding to life’s challenges, broken into seven sections. Lorne Daniel weaves the stories of family estrangement, personal traumas, addiction and the wisdom of elders and the natural world.
What Is Broken Binds Us is out now.
Daniel is a poet, editor and urban activist who lives in Victoria. He is the author of five collections of poetry including, Falling Together and Living in Stone. He is also the founder of Rethink Red Deer and the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network.
LISTEN / Lorne Daniel on his new poetry book:
All Points West9:57New poetry collection by a Victoria author details experience of family estrangement that can happen from addiction
Circumtrauma by Jumoke Verissimo
Circumtrauma is a poetry collection by Jumoke Verissimo. (Coach House Books, jumokeverissimo.com)
Jumoke Verissimo’s poetry collection, Circumtrauma, explores the lasting legacy of the Nigeria-Biafra War, which though largely absent from official history still has a profound and ongoing impact on those who lived through it. The poems combine historical records and personal accounts to bear witness to the intergenerational pain while looking toward healing and reconciliation.
Circumtrauma is out now.
Verissimo is a Nigerian Canadian novelist, poet and children’s writer living in Toronto. She is the author of the poetry collections I Am Memory and The Birth of Illusion, the novel A Small Silence and the children’s book Àdùkẹ́, Grandma and the Moon’s Secrets.
All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly
All of Us Hidden is a poetry collection by Joanna Streetly. (www.joannastreetly.com, Caitlin Press)
Joanna Streetly’s poetry collection All of Us Hidden addresses the grief she experienced following the disappearance of her two stepsons at sea. The poems focus on the impact the loss had on her, the remote island she lived on with her family and explore how time shapes the relationship between people and nature, families and individuals.
All of Us Hidden is out now.
Streetly is an essayist, short fiction writer and naturalist guide from Tofino, B.C. In 2015, Streetly’s short essay The Brightness and Darkness of Lucifer was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize and in 2017 she was published in the anthology Best Canadian Essays 2017. Her books include Silent Inlet, Paddling Through Time and Wild Fierce Life.
Compulsory Figures by John Barton
Compulsory Figures is a poetry collection by John Barton. (John Preston, Caitlin Press)
The collection Compulsory Figures reflects on John Barton’s childhood in Alberta, his coming of age as a gay man during the AIDS crisis and all the people and things that shape us. Through lyrical poetry, Barton also explores the depths of grief after the poet’s loss of one of his sisters in 2015.
Compulsory Figures is out now.
Barton was the editor of The Malahat Review from 2004 to 2018. He is a three-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award and his collection Lost Family: A Memoir was nominated for the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. He was the poet laureate for the city of Victoria from 2019 to 2022.
Barton won second place of the CBC Poetry Prize in 2002 for In the House of the Present and Assymetries.
I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand
I Would Like to Say Thank You is a poetry collection by Joseph Dandurand. (Peter Arkell, Harbour Publishing)
I Would Like to Say Thank You builds on Joseph Dandurand’s legacy as a storyteller and explores themes of forgiveness, love, grief and trauma. The poems are inspired by Dandurand’s people, the Kwantlen, spirits, self-pity and the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
I Would Like to Say Thank You is out now.
Dandurand is a member of the Kwantlen First Nation. He is the director of the Kwantlen Cultural Centre and the author of several books of poetry including The East Side of It All, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2021, Dandurand received the BC Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
November, November by Isabella Wang
November, November is a poetry collection by Isabella Wang. (Lj Weisberg, Nightwood Editions)
November, November began as a tribute to the late Phyllis Webb and was completed after author Isabella Wang’s cancer diagnosis. Intertwining her own mortality with Webb’s death and using letters and epistolary lyrics, Wang addresses the pain of missing a loved one and how art can provide solace in grief.
November, November is out now.
Wang is the writer of chapbook On Forgetting a Language and Pebble Swing, which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She was shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the year Content, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Awards for Poetry and Long Poem Contest, Minola Review’s Inaugural Poetry Contest and twice for the New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.
She lives in B.C., and directs Revise-Revision Street, a nonprofit editing and mentorship program.
if: prey, then: huntress by Christina Shah
if: prey, then: huntress is a poetry collection by Christina Shah. (Nightwood Editions)
if: prey, then: huntress is a collection inspired by Christina Shah’s work as one of few women in the male-dominated industrial landscapes. Shah paints a picture of western Canada that touches on themes of agency and vulnerability — while examining the lives of workers in the mines, paper mills and shipyards.
if: prey, then: huntress is out now.
Shah is a poet and industrial worker in New Westminster, B.C. rig veda, her first solo chapbook, received an honourable mention for the bpNichol Chapbook Award in 2024. if: prey, then: huntress is her first full-length poetry collection.
Non-Prophet by Qurat Dar
Non-Prophet is a poetry collection by Qurat Dar. (icehouse poetry)
Qurat Dar’s debut poetry collection, Non-Prophet, explores the complex relationship between doubt and devotion to personal and greater spiritual powers. These raw and vulnerable poems reflect on how both the man-made and natural worlds claim to be sacred — and what it means to grapple with faith.
Non-Prophet is out now.
Dar is a spoken word artist, organizer, multi-genre writer and the 2020 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam National Champion. Dar is currently pursuing a master’s in applied science in engineering at the University of Guelph and is deeply interested in the intersections between the sciences and the arts, especially in the context of the climate crisis.
The Reign by Shane Nielson
The Reign is a poetry collection by Shane Neilson. (icehouse poetry)
Using lyrics, prose and images, The Reign crafts a modern fairy tale about an intellectually disabled man named Willard as he falls in love with a tyrannical industrialist who is also a whitetail buck. Set against the backdrop of Enniskillen, an expropriated New Brunswick community abandoned just before it became part of a military base, the myth unfolds into an unparalleled tale encompassing a wide range of forms.
The Reign is out now.
Neilson is a disabled poet, physician and critic from New Brunswick. He is the author of four books of nonfiction about medicine and literary criticism. His poetry collections include You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations and Dysphoria, which won the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry and Complete Physical, a finalist for the Trillium Award. Neilson now lives in Oakville, Ont.
LISTEN / Shane Neilson on his book about neurodiversity and fatherhood:
Fresh Air13:48What to Feel, How to Feel: Essays on neurodiversity and fatherhood
A Current Through the Flesh by Richard-Yves Sitoski
A Current Through the Flesh is a poetry collection by Richard-Yves Sitoski. (www.rsitoski.com, Ronsdale Press)
A Current Through the Flesh unpacks intergenerational trauma to reveal the fragility of masculine self-image, the dangers of passivity and the underlying power of women who have been oppressed by toxic beliefs.
A Current Through the Flesh is out now.
Richard-Yves Sitoski is a songwriter, playwright and poet living in Owen Sound, Ont. His other poetry books include Wait, What? and How to Be Human.
Only the Scent of You Remained by Duncan Mercredi
Only the Scent of You Remained is a poetry collection by Duncan Mercredi. (At Bay Press)
Only the Scent of You Remained is a raw and honest collection from the former Winnipeg Poet Laureate who traces the journey of his life to create a record of the people and places that have influenced him — for better or for worse.
Only the Scent of You Remained is out now.
Duncan Mercredi is a Cree-Métis writer and storyteller and the former poet laureate of Winnipeg. His other books include mahikan ka onot and Spirit of the Wolf.
LISTEN / Duncan Mercredi on The Next Chapter:
The Next Chapter12:15Duncan Mercredi on 215
calling down the sky by Rosanna Deerchild
Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection by Rosanna Deerchild. (Coach House Books)
calling down the sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of residential schools. Rosanna Deerchild portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools has been felt throughout generations and has contributed to social problems that continue to exist today.
Originally published in 2015, this tenth anniversary bilingual edition features both Cree and English versions of the poems.
When you can read it: Sept. 30
Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC’s Unreserved. Deerchild also developed and hosted This Place, a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold. Her book, calling down the sky, is her mother’s residential school survivor story. Deerchild is currently based in Winnipeg. She is the author of the poetry collections She Falls Again and Calling Down the Sky.
LISTEN / What does it take to be a good ancestor?
Unreserved46:22How to be a good ancestor
procession is a poetry collection by katherena vermette. (Vanda Fleury, House of Anansi Press)
In vermette’s third collection of poetry, she explores what it means to be at once a descendent and a future ancestor. procession is a grouping of frank and heartfelt poems that examines ancestral dreams, 1980s nostalgia, prairie life and how it changes as a child, parent and future elder.
When you can read it: Sept. 30
vermette is a Michif (Red River Métis) writer from Winnipeg. Her books include the novels real ones, The Break, The Strangers and The Circle, poetry collections North End Love Songs and river woman and the four-book graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo.
North End Love Songs won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. The Break was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. It was defended by Candy Palmater on Canada Reads 2017. The Strangers won the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. real ones was also longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize.
vermette is also a senior editor at Simon & Schuster Canada.
tours, variously by Drew McEwan
tours, variously is a poetry collection by Drew McEwan. (Talonbooks)
The poems in tours, variously look at the relationship between words, spaces and bodies guiding the reader through an inquiry into how we engage with language, constantly moving between what can be said and what remains unsaid.
When you can read it: Oct. 14
Drew McEwan is a researcher and poet based in Toronto. Her other books include Repeater and If Pressed.
Beneath the Surface by Chief R. Stacey Laforme
Beneath the Surface is a collection of poetry by Chief R. Stacey Laforme. (Bobby Hristova/CBC, UpRoute Books )
In Beneath the Surface, Indigenous leader and storyteller Chief Stacey R. Laforme crafts a deeply personal collection of poems and stories rooted in his cultural heritage. The collection explores themes of trauma, grief, hope, resilience and identity inspired by his own life experiences. Using humour and pain, Laforme reflects on these experiences and encourages readers to look at the world through an Indigenous lens.
When you can read it: Oct. 1
Laforme is the retired Chief of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation after serving his community for over 20 years. He is also a poet and storyteller, known for his collection Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation.
th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
th book uv lost passwords is a poetry collection 1 by bill bissett. (Talonbooks, David Hawe)
In his new book, th book uv lost passwords 1, acclaimed Canadian poet bill bissett challenges conventional language to weave a “novel uv pomes” that questions our ability to understand each other. In his signature unconventional style, bissett fuses sound, imagery and narrative to explore themes of mystery and love — and invites readers to engage with language in a fresh and expansive way.
When you can read it: Oct. 15
bissett is a poet and artist born in Halifax and based in Toronto. Known for his unconventional writing style, bissett has written more than 60 books of poetry including its th sailors life / still in treetment and breth.
His awards include the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and the BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He also won second prize in the poetry category of the CBC Literary Awards in 1980. He is the co-founder of the Secret Handshake Gallery in Toronto’s Kensington Market, a peer-support facility for people with schizophrenia.
In June 2024, he was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Goose by Melanie Dennis Unrau
Goose is a poetry collection by Melanie Dennis Unrau. ( Assembly Press, Jason Unrau)
Goose is a cheeky, sharp-witted irreverent act of literary criticism. In it, Melanie Dennis Unrau explores the relationship between humans and the natural world by deconstructing hand-copied details from Northland Trails, S.C. Ellis’s book of self-illustrated short stories, poems and essays about the Athabasca region.
When you can read it: Oct. 7
Unrau is a climate organizer, scholar, editor and poet from Winnipeg. She is the author of The Rough Poets and Happiness Threads.
The Book of Interruptions by Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi
The Book of Interruptions is a poetry collection by Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi. (Sarah Bodri, Buckrider Books)
Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi’s collection The Book of Interruptions feature poems that mark the intersection of sexuality and history, immigration and war. Oscillating between Iran and Toronto, Mohammadi unflinchingly documents the reality of straddling two worlds while leaving room for art and pleasure.
When you can read it: Oct. 7
Mohammadi is a queer Iranian poet and translator currently living in Toronto. They have published two other poetry collections: WJD in a double volume with TheOceanDweller and Me, You, Then Snow. They received the Vallum poetry Award in 2021 for their poem My City the City.
What We Know So Far Is by Conor Mc Donnell
What We Know So Far Is is a book of poetry by Conor Mc Donnell. (Buckrider Books, www.conorgmcdonnell.com)
Pulling from his Irish heritage and experience as a physician, Conor Mc Donnell’s long poem, What We Know So Far Is, is imbued with culture, both contemporary and ancient — and captures Mc Donnell’s fascination with language.
When you can read it: Oct. 7
Donnell is a poet, associate professor at the University of Toronto and physician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. His previous books include This Insistent List and Recovery Community.
The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin
The World After Rain is a poetry collection by Canisia Lubrin. (Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Soft Skull Press)
The latest from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Canisia Lubrin, The World After Rain is a long-form poem dedicated to her mother that is a meditation on time, love, loss and grief. With reflections on past and present, these meticulously crafted poems intimately explore the paradoxes of contemporary life.
When you can read it: Oct. 14
Lubrin is a writer, editor and teacher. Her debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis was longlisted for the Gerald Lambert Award, the Pat Lowther Award and was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award.
Her poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It also won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Prize for poetry.
Her debut short story collection Code Noir won the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction prize, the Trillium Book Award and won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
the book of sentences by rob mclennan
the book of sentences is a poetry collection by rob mclennan. (Matthew Holmes, University of Calgary Press)
Meditative, witty and humourous, this collection of poems is fantastically rooted in family and the local — and captures intimate and quiet domestic moments. rob mclennan reflects on parenthood, childhood, past, present and future with finesse of phrase, rhythm and patience.
When you can read it: Oct. 15
rob mclennan is a blogger, editor, essayist and poet based in Ottawa. He is the author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction including The Uncertainty Principle: stories and the poetry collections A perimeter and World’s End.
Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery by Vera Hadzic
Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery is a poetry collection by Vera Hadzic. (Eileen Carter, Anvil Press)
This debut collection touches on themes of change, compulsion and anxiety and both constructs and deconstructs the body — both human and animal. The poems in Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery draw on history, art and literature to probe the anxious impulses to contain oneself and simultaneously break free.
When you can read it: Oct. 15
Vera Hadzic is a writer from Ottawa. She is also the author of the chapbook Fossils You Can Swallow.
Reckless by Andrea MacPherson
Reckless is a poetry collection by Andrea MacPherson. (andreamacpherson.com, Book*hug Press)
In her latest poetry collection, Andrea MacPherson examines the complex journey of female identity in a world that often limits women’s right to assert it. These candid and visceral poems address pressing topics facing women like sexual emancipation, the pain of divorce, the trials of motherhood and reproductive rights.
When you can read it: Oct. 28
MacPherson is a poet and novelist from Vancouver. She teaches creative writing at select B.C. colleges and universities and her other books include the novels When She Was Electric and Beyond the Blue.
Ajar by Margo LaPierre
Ajar is a poetry collection by Margo LaPierre. (Curtis Perry, Guernica Editions)
In Ajar, Margo LaPierre explores the struggles of navigating womanhood while having a mood disorder and recovering from gendered violence. The collection aims to destigmatize and humanize the experience of bipolar psychosis and frames psychosis as another perceptual system as opposed to a break from reality.
When you can read it: Oct. 31
LaPierre is a poet and freelance editor of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been published in The Ex-Puritan, CV2, Room, PRISM and Arc.