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Excerpt from Issue 309 (Autumn 2026)
"close/d" by Angelic Goldsky
Content note: includes queer slurs
when the group chat asks/ if I would rather go to the sauna/ where they
don’t separate by “sex”/ I pause/ want to say/ I am okay with either/ up
to you/ I am used to shaving my forests down/ waxing my rainbows/
rounding my back/ wearing an old smile/ on top of an older sliver/
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A special first look from Issue 309 (Autumn 2026)
The Fiddlehead is sharing a preview of "The Orange I Promised," a poem that will appear in our fall issue but which needs to be read now. It is a poem of witness, addressing the genocide in Gaza from Gaza itself, where Maryam Hasanat survives, writes and parents.
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An excerpt from Issue 306 (Winter 2026)
— Geordie Miller teaches at Mount Allison University. His coauthored long poem, Disharmonies (Hardscrabble Press, 2022), addresses the topic of revolutionary commitment in dialogue with Marilyn Lerch. He is currently completing a poetry manuscript with his sister, Kate Miller.
Love Poems for Landlords
by Geordie Miller
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An excerpt from Issue 305 (Autumn 2025)
— Vivek Sharma is a graduate of UBC’s MFA program. His poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Best Canadian Poetry 2026, The Capilano Review, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, and The Walrus. His chapbook, Between two valleys, a lake (Anstruther Press, 2025), is an exploration of displacement and return. He lives and writes on the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan peoples.
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The Fiddlehead is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2024 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, judged by D. M. Bradford, Colleen Coco Collins, and Meghan Kemp-Gee! The winner of the $2000 contest prize will be announced in April 2024 and the winning poem will appear in the Spring 2025 issue (304). Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the following fifteen finalists!
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