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Plasticnic and Plasticpoems by Fiona Tinwei Lam

Below are short, animated poems created by Fiona Tinwei Lam in collaboration with Vancouver...

the invention / of the speed of bamboo scrambles in the hands of the young
/ determined / to serve the elders that fed them first

“Meeting Jibreel” is the honourable mention for Room’s Poetry Contest 2020, as selected by judge...

Ten writers have made our 2020 Poetry Contest Shortlist.

Here they are: the sixteen longlisted poems from our 2020 Poetry Contest!

Whale Dreams I Wet basalt back of whale passing one hundred feet from the deck, makes me call you...

Galaxies After Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” Ladies and gentlemen, please. Thank you, thank you—yes, the...

To celebrate the publication of issue 43.2 Devour, Room would like to share a poem from one of our...

“Dead spider frozen in ice are you dead.” is the honourable mention for Room’s Poetry Contest 2019...

/let it out/ they tear through my rawing throat, saliva & blood bubbling out /let it out/ they...

In memoriam Tennyson said Nine years of things about his friend Who’d died. He brought him back by...

We met at a birthday party. You were the only rum drinker in the room. On the couch, Al Purdy was...