“Excerpt from Crowd Source” by Cecily Nicholson
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read an excerpt from Crowd Source (Talonbooks 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.
Excerpt from Crowd Source
By Cecily Nicholson
Copyright ยฉ Cecily Nicholson
From Crowd Source (Talonbooks 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
Cecily Nicholson is a past recipient of the Governor Generalโs Literary Award for poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the inaugural Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading award from the poetry in canada society. Her collaborative practice spans museum, artist-run, and community arts organizing and education. She was the 2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley, the 2021 Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor, and the 2017 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University. Nicholson teaches in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hษnฬqฬษminฬษmฬ speaking Musqueam (xสทmษฮธkสทษyฬษm) people.
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