stephanie roberts
stephanie roberts is the author of the poetry collection rushes from the river disappointment (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020). A widely published Quebec-based poet, she has work featured in Poetry Magazine, the League of Canadian Poets, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, 2020), and elsewhere. She won first prize for Black Mountain Press’s The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018.
Reading List
Black Conversation
from the noose of the poem the dead woman points off page follow her finger to the blue eyes of the poet who caps and uncaps a black fountain pen. he looks at her finger, wipes his eyes, scrolls down, not I. he is sympathetic. although the purple tongue, tied shut in its duchess, has […]
Ectopia Cordis
What is the medical name? What did the mother feel when the midwife fell quiet—whispered Call an ambulance to the doula? It’s a soft expression for a terrible condition Heart on Sleeve. Tyger print, trumpet flare, and chiffon, it once caught fire over a candle I lit to warm the cold hands of a man […]