A few old friends and some like likely future friends on the masthead of the new journal The Traces: tracesjournal.ca/p/the-traces-m…

We've started rolling out the second issue of Traces! Check out our website for new poetry and prose. We'll be slowly releasing the entire issue over the month of May, so stay tuned 🌷 tracesjournal.ca

New poem up at Traces Journal: substack.com/home/post/p-16…

It’s worth taking a moment to read this poem aloud.

I'm in here too!

Our poetry editor, Katie Schmidt, reviews "Good Want" by Domenica Martinello, now live on our website! tracesjournal.ca/p/book-review-…

What's a collection of Canadian poetry without a maple syrup poem? Read Jeffrey Hynds' "Primeval Breakfast" in the latest issue. tracesjournal.ca/p/primeval-bre…

Increasingly I'm convinced that the most interesting writers, artists, and editors of the future will be the ones who largely eschew the digital and embrace physical media, the analog, the organic.

Check out Angeline Schellenberg's poem "Incarnation" in the latest Traces issue! tracesjournal.ca/p/incarnation

We have a great new conversation between D.S. Martin & James Tughan now live on our website! tracesjournal.ca/p/facing-the-s…

Read Doris Fiszer's summery poem "Turnings" in the latest issue of Traces! tracesjournal.ca/p/turnings

We are pleased to include a new poem by E.R. Skulmoski in our second issue! tracesjournal.ca/p/hymn-1

Marie Trotter's ekphrastic poem about Gustav Klimt's "Hope I" in Traces Journal: tracesjournal.ca/p/hope-i

#CeliaJordan reviews "After the Carnival" by Alfred Nicol: open.substack.com/pub/tracesjour… Just buy the book.

"No, this is a work to pick up and draw great comfort from when the leering horror of life peers at you through the chinks in your routine. When they will not stop staring, and the foundation is threatening to crumble beneath you. Nicol, with irony and the lightest touch, does

Book Review: "After the Carnival, Poems" by Alfred Nicol tracesjournal.ca/p/book-review-… I'm grateful to Celia Jordan for her close reading (unblinking) of my poems. It's an honor. Wiseblood Books Boris Dralyuk Caitlin Doyle Christian Dupont Áine Greaney, Author (she/her/hers) Zina Gomez-Liss

Still a few spots open at The Frost Farm Poetry Conference, Friday, Aug. 15 – Sunday, Aug 17, at the Frost Farm in Derry, NH. Here's my keynote speech from 2023. Consider it an invitation. alfrednicol.com/wp-content/upl… A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton fall 2025) Midge Goldberg Hyla Brook Poets Steven Knepper

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