“urban facts 2.0” by Ellen Chang-Richardson
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “urban facts 2.0” by Ellen Chang-Richardson, from Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.
urban facts 2.0
By Ellen Chang-Richardson
Copyright © Ellen Chang-Richardson
From Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet, multi-genre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024), and author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in Augur, the Ex-Puritan, the Fiddlehead, Grain, Plenitude, Watch Your Head, and more. They are the co-founder of Riverbed—an experimental reading series based out of the National Capital Region, a member of Room magazine’s editorial collective, and a member of the poetry collective VII. A third culture kid at heart, Ellen’s writing is informed by their love of contemporary art, their concern with humanity’s impact on the Earth, and their experience moving through various societies as a femme-presenting genderqueer.
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