We’ll be reading from poems not from the chapbooks as well but here’s a line or phrase the chapbook from each poet as a teaser…
“cardboard as a trapline dance floor” ~ Robin MacDonald
“we balance between fires” ~ Mary Lee Bragg
“the days baffled grey” ~LM Rochefort
“You’re prickly with certainty” ~ Frances Boyle
“years later it starts in that field beside the abattoir” ~ Deborah-Anne Tunney
“a sutured halo’s sear” ~ Laurie Koensgen
“my wings nailed shut” ~ Jacqueline Bourque
“there’s a calamine smile in reply” ~ Pearl Pirie
“to rinse his souring” ~ Jean Van Loon
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