Our literary magazine was founded on Leonard Cohen’s 89th birth anniversary on September 21, 2023. We are poets obsessed with the ways in which poetry can both break you and build you up. Though we’re based in Canada, we’d like to hope that we can reach across borders and generations (someday!). Welcome to this little corner of the internet where we can sing into the void and remember that poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
POET OF THE WEEK
HENRY ISRAELI
December 7, 2025
Henry Israeli‘s most recent poetry collections are Our Age of Anxiety (White Pine Poetry Prize), and god’s breath hovering across the waters, (Four Way). His poetry has appeared in journals including APR, Boston Review, and The Harvard Review, as well as anthologies including Best American Poetry. He is also the founder of Saturnalia Books.
It’s the same dream again and again.
Helmeted men without faces swing clubs
at our heads, beat us forward, forward.
The present for me doesn’t exist without the past. We’re all ancient artifacts with genetic material dating back from our parents to the world’s first single-celled organisms. The same could be said about writing. There is no present in writing. By the time we’ve written down a word, the present has past