57.3 – Themed Issue “RUIN” – Spring 2019

 

the pacific spirit poetry prize judge’s essay

Billy-Ray Belcourt – The Not-Yet and
the What-Is-To-Come

 

the pacific spirit poetry prize grand prize winner

Moira J. – CROSS-SECTIONS OF SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS & SHELLS, 2013

 

the pacific spirit poetry prize runners-up

Tara McGowan-Ross – a simple instruction

Samantha Nock- pahpowin

 

RUIN

Steven Heighton – Notes toward a new theory of tears

Justin Ducharme – a boy with hands like mine

Autumn Koe-Schnell – Learning to be Lost

Carrie Snyder – Early Onset

Elee Kraljii Gardiner – Exorcise

Marie Baléo – Phantom Pain

 

(RE)VOLT

Brandi Bird – Selkirk, Manitoba

Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela – Slovenly Wilderness

Joshua Whitehead – ndn anality

Kate Finegan  – A Mosaic in the Making

Cecilia Stuart – Spring break forever

Natasha Ramoutar – Where We Keep the Bodies

 

(RE-VERSE)

Emily Riddle – napew redux

Christine Lai – Camera Obscura

Tin Lorica – alt boy

Tenille K Campbell – medicine songs

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia – Common Animals

Timiro Mohamed – Orchestra

Özten Elaine Paul – October, 2018