“KATRINA (New Orleans, The Levees, 2005)” by Stephanie Bolster
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “KATRINA (New Orleans, The Levees, 2005)” by Stephanie Bolster, from Long Exposure (Palimpsest Press 2025), shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.
KATRINA (New Orleans, The Levees, 2005
By Stephanie Bolster
From Long Exposure
Copyrightย ยฉ Stephanie Bolster
From Long Exposure (Palimpsest Press 2025), shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
Stephanie Bolsterโs latest book of poetry, Long Exposure, began as an exploration of Robert Polidoriโs photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl, and extended inward and outward from there. Excerpts from Long Exposure were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2019. Bolsterโs first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor Generalโs Award and the Gerald Lampert Award and was translated into French as Pierre Blanche. Her poems have also been translated into Spanish, German, and Serbo-Croatian. Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner, and co-editor of Penned: Zoo Poems, she was born in Vancouver and grew up in Burnaby, BC. She has been a professor of creative writing at Concordia University since 2000 and lives in Pointe-Claire, Quรฉbec, on the Mohawk (Kanienโkehรก:ka) territory of Skaniatara:ti. This is her third time being shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.
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