poems
i dream in decay
March 27, 2025this body aches for death, a cure? a resolution, like it longs to rest in the muddy embrace of a grave so that the earth may hold me as gently as my tender flesh allows. she will unbind my muscles from the bone, curl her fingers in my sinew and draw me open, feed me to her soil, quench the thirst of her children with plasmas and cradle them in my ribs in the dip of my pelvis or at the joints of my limbs. it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, waiting for sun to pour in past her fingertips,…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: End of semester events
March 24, 2025Blue Jay Sessions at Medina Café 780 Richards St., Vancouver March 27, 6:00 p.m.–10:15 p.m. Tickets: $15 for one session, $23 for full session on showpass.com The Blue Jay Sessions, a Calgary-based pop-up show featuring a host of local musical…
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Flowing verses at Black Futures Open Mic
March 3, 2025A gentle wash of purple and green clung to a white brick wall, as if the colours themselves were intent on listening to the evening’s poems. Behind the microphone sat a few modest armchairs and an accompanying coffee table with…
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Poetry in Transit presents stanzas for a safe ride
October 9, 2024Poetry in Transit is back for its 28th year to transport you into a poetic abyss amidst the hustle and bustle of bus delays and SkyTrain chaos. The aim of Poetry in Transit is to make your commute a little…
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Lunch Poems poets present wise words on family connections
March 11, 2024On February 21, I attended a Lunch Poems event at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus. This recurring event happens online and in-person on the third Wednesday of every month, where two poets are invited to show off their work to an…
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Sumaiya Tufail to deliver TEDxSFU talk on poetry as resistance
July 24, 2023Editor’s note: The Peak would like to note that Josh Ralla, one of our staff members, is an executive director of TEDxSFU, but had no involvement in writing this article. Sumaiya Tufail began the Slam Poetry Club at SFU last…
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Anthology explores what home means to Vancouver’s unhoused and marginalized
June 9, 2023Content warning: mentions of displacement by police and the death of a loved one. It’s difficult to even begin to understand the complex set of social issues that overlap for Vancouver’s unhoused populations. Residents in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood…
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The Book Nook: Five books to add to your summer reading list
May 16, 2023[caption id="attachment_125240" align="alignnone" width="199"] PHOTO: Courtesy of Ecco[/caption] The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi Reading poetry in a shaded area with a cool drink in hand — what could be a better way to…
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Pandemic pain poems
April 4, 2021Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace I try calming my worries by listening to Foo Fighters during cold showers, but then I worry about the ethics of using so much fresh water. [caption id="attachment_117864" align="alignnone" width="288"] ILLUSTRATION: Siloam Yeung / The…
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