Poetry Archives - ROOM Magazine

ROOM 46.2: Ley Line Sneak Peek

May 24, 2023 | Poetry, Reading Room

Step into the in-between with a sneak peek from ROOM 46.2: Ley Line.

World Poetry Day: You Who The Earth Was For by Steffi Tad-y

Mar 20, 2023 | Poetry, Reading Room

This World Poetry Day, we’re serving a sneak peek from ROOM 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices.

Poetry Contest 2022: The Longlist

Nov 25, 2022 | Contest, Poetry, What's New

We are thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2022 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members, and a big congratulations to these talented poets! ---- Room Magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest Longlist Viewer Commiseration is Contrived, by Vironika...

45.3 Audacity Teaser: Two Poems by Meghan Gagliardi

Aug 29, 2022 | Poetry, What's New

At my loneliest I choose a lover for every corner of the city
the city is brand new to me and appears completely flat
the water is the bottom edge

Becoming

May 31, 2022 | Poetry, What's New

& the sea turns on itself, cracks the coveted

scales, bait & hook, leaves bones for the hungry

slides its rough back against home

Poetry Contest 2021: The Winners

Dec 17, 2021 | Contest, Contest Winners, Poetry, What's New

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of our 2021 Poetry Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three poets, whose works have been carefully selected by our esteemed judge, Kama La Mackerel, after hours of deliberation. We won't keep you waiting...

Poetry Contest 2021: The Longlist

Dec 3, 2021 | Contest, Poetry, What's New

It's finally here: the longlist for our 2021 Poetry Contest. Many thanks to all our readers, and to those who submitted their work. Congratulations to these talented poets! ---- non-consensual, by Eva Wissting Last night in my mother's house, still a maiden, by Zoe...

Issue 44.4 Teaser: MISÂSKWATÔMINISKÂHK

Dec 3, 2021 | Poetry, What's New

full of saskatoon berries sage-smoke & yarrow wild columbine & aster

where the trees grow crooked

by swift-flowing rivers

& grassy hills where bu alo used to jump

Plasticnic and Plasticpoems by Fiona Tinwei Lam

Mar 15, 2021 | Feature, Poetry, What's New

Below are short, animated poems created by Fiona Tinwei Lam in collaboration with Vancouver animators Tisha Deb Pillai and Nhat Truong. These short, plastic-pollution-themed video poems were intended to be screened at the 2020 Growing Room Literary & Arts...