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

stephanie roberts  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

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

stephanie roberts  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

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 […]