GREATER VICTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY POETRY DISPENSER

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUBMITTED 

to our city's first FREE Poetry Dispenser!

OUR INDISPENSABLE DISPENSER-POETS:

 

Patty Archer: “The animals are taking revenge”

Tharani Balachandran: "Mom Brain"

Yvonne Blomer: “Sad sonnet with extra couplet”

Lyn Butler Gray: “The Third Sister”

Anna Cavouras: “A Gentle Cascade”

M.M. Cross: "Sirname"

Tara Colborne: “Mid-Winter Nap”

Marita Dachsel: “now is the season of open windows”

Katherine DeCoste: “Benediction”

Zoe Dickinson: “portents”

Rebeca Dunn-Krahn: “Flamenco Night at The Mint”

Sebastian Dunn-Krahn: “Teaching my Abuela how to use the word "whence"”

Sage Dunn-Krahn: “Lucky Summer”

Laurie Elmquist: “What is it about birds?”

Atma Frans: "How Joy Has Driven Its Roots Into Me" 

Susan Garcia: “Fox”

Terri Gower: “Baby Hands”

Marlene Grand Maître: "Basking Lessons" 

Julian Gunn: "Stunbone"

Abra Hanen: “To Emily Carr at St. Joseph's Hospital”

Eric LM Hansen: “Love Dwells”

Diana Hayes: ” VESUVIUS BAY, WINTER”

Kath Healing: “grammar of the river”

Anne Hopkinson: "Appetite"

Nancy Issenman: “believe me when I say”

Judy Johnson: “Kintsugi”

Allegra Kaplan: “TONELLA TENELLA, OR THE ONE WHERE I PROFESS MY LOVE FOR YOU”

Karen Loucks: “Last Truth”

Margaret Lonsdale: “Orchard”

Kelly Madden: “Kelly Madden”

Garth Martens: “LATE WINTER”

Diane Massam: “GARBAGE EVE”

Rhona McAdam: “High Tides”
Kegan McFadden: “I am thinking that a poem could go on forever” 

Laurie McFayden: “when you and i are ghosts”

Sheila Martindale: “At the Seniors’ Centre”

Mary Ann Moore: “Carnival Cat”

Shelley Marie Motz: “Diaspora I”

Ulrike Narwani: "Newborn"

Steve Noyes: "A POEM FOR RAMADAM"

Amber Nuyens: “TELLING THE TRUTH”

Susan Olding: "Pleading with Bliss" 

Sandy O’Reilly: “If I Could Bend Light”

Arleen Paré: "Evolution, Manmade"

Barbara Pelman: “GIRLS BASEMENT LOCKER ROOM, KING ED HIGH SCHOOL 1958”

S.M. Perkins Carr: “Out of Time”

Allie Picketts: “Air II”

Julie Paul: “The Empty Nester, Five Years Along”

Aaron Rabinowitz: "The day my son heard about mortality" 

Heather Ramsay: "Picture Window"

Kyeren Regehr: “Everywhere, Earth Dispenses Poetry”

Andrea Scott: “Climb”

Daniel G. Scott: “presence at birth”

Clare Sharpe: “GRATITUDE”

Tara Sharpe: “Every day is Everest for me”

captain Snowden: "Soft Blockade"

Catherine St. Denis: "After the Breakup" 

Marie Metaphor Specht: “Defence”

Carla Stein: “First Daffodil”

Ian Thomas: “Outer Gardens”

Jean-Paul Thuot: “What we pray for”

Christine Walde: “Butterfly Language”

​Cynthia Woodman Kerkham: "Icarus’ Mother"

Nancy Yakimoski: “What’s the word for—"

sho yamagushiku: "My hair calcifies, watery flesh floods my lungs..."