Congratulations to Kevin Andrew Heslop, winner of the 2022-2023 Very Small Verse Contest! Toulouse’s uncharacteristic heatKevin Andrew Heslop brings seventy grandmothers’ begonias from the house to the balcony out of season. Kevin Andrew Heslop is. Debut: the correct fury of your why is a mountain (Gordon Hill Press, Fall 2021). Lately:six feet | between us(McIntosh Gallery, Winter 2022); Revelations: Gathie Falk (Centred…

Congrats to Jaclyn Piudik, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest. Listen to “Clepsydra” by Jaclyn Piudik Jaclyn Piudik is the author of To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books 2017) and three chapbooks, the corpus undone in the blizzard (Espresso Chapbooks 2019), Of Gazelles Unheard (Beautiful Outlaw 2013) and The Tao of Loathliness (fooliar…

Congratulations to Rae Crossman, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest!  Listen to “Sometimes” by Rae Crossman Living on the Haldimand Tract in Kitchener, Ontario, Rae Crossman writes poetry both for the page and for oral performance. He has published poems in literary magazines and dramatized them on theatre stages, in classrooms, and around campfires…

Congrats to kjumnro, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest. A Haikuby kjmunro low winter sunthe mistfrom a mandarin Originally from Vancouver, Canada, kjmunro moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991. She founded & facilitates ‘solstice haiku’, a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse. She has two leaflets with Leaf Press, & co-edited the…

Congratulations to Jacquie Pearce, winner of the 2018 Haiku Contest! BC writer Jacquie Pearce is celebrating National Haiku Writing Month with the League of Canadian Poets as the winner of the League’s inaugural National Haiku Contest. Chosen by guest jurors Terry Ann Carder and Naomi Beth Wakan, two of Pearce’s poems were selected through blind…