Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Utopia” by Erin Wilson, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program.

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Utopia

By Erin Wilson

Subtitled: New Moon, July 2022, Listening to a Rough Recording of Jeff Buckley Singing “When I am Laid in Earth”

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Copyright © Erin Wilson

Erin Wilson‘s poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Arc Poetry Magazine, Prairie Fire, TNQ, EVENT Magazine, Freefall, TAR, Dalhousie Review, Vallum, and elsewhere internationally. She has won a Pushcart and a Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada. Her work appears in Best Canadian Poetry 2026. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishinabek. She refuses to carry a cell phone.

Fresh Voices is a publication and workshop program created by and for the League’s associate members, curated and edited by Erin Vance.

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