Poetry
Contest Winner
Suddenness Lullaby
This poem won the second 2026 Mini Contest, a warmup round for the 2-Day Contest! / /
Safranal
You stand by the stove, stirring a pot of bubbling rice— sticky, gelatinous—your arthritic fingers stained gold by pinched saffron. Your hair is the same rusty bob, your brown eyes ringed with...
Interviews
“Praise Talk, Appreciation, is the Basic Language of Poetry”: A Conversation With Di Brandt
Interviewed by Laurence Hutchman
An Interview with Penn Kemp
Interviewed by Sophie Guillas
Poetry, Accessibility and Education – An Interview with Jónína Kirton
Interviewed by Chloe Gandy
A Real Donnie Brasco Situation: An Interview with Shaun Robinson
Interviewed by Rob Taylor
Reviews
Taslīm: We Are the Prophets by Carolyn Ramzy
Reviewed by Claudia Kindrachuk
Local Woman. by Jzl Jmz
Reviewed by Nick Hilbourn
The Lantern and the Night Moths by Yilin Wang
Reviewed by Jeremy Audet
Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney
Reviewed by Chris Johnson
i feel that way too by jaz papadopoulos
Reviewed by hannah godfrey
Bonememory by Anna Veprinska
Reviewed by Liam Monaghan
News
Join us June 2nd for the launch of the Spring Issue!
Join us June 2nd for the launch of the Spring Issue! Winnipeg has transitioned from snowstorms to sunshine in the...
Announcing: CV2’s Poetry Month Wrap Party!
We were heartbroken when our December holiday/birthday/anniversary extravaganza had to be cancelled last minute (Winnipeg weather strikes again!), but we’ve...
Mini Contest Alert!
✨Dust off your dictionaries! ✨ This Sunday is the second 2026 Mini Contest! We've got three more nefarious words from...
