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Published Works
I am a Co-Editor for the international online and print literary journal DailyHaiku. My poems have appeared in: Carousel, the Fieldstone Review, filling Station, the Prairie Journal, Other Voices, the Toronto Quarterly, Misunderstandings Magazine, Blue Skies Poetry, Notebook Magazine, the Stroll of Poets Anthology, and Fait Accomplit. I was short-listed for the CV2 2-day poem contest for 2008 and won the 2009 Edmonton CBC Poetry Face-off, placing third in the national competition.
Driftworks
Published 2012, Leaf Press
Driftworks is a series of poems that explores the distance between manmade constructs and natural spaces, expressed through the physical and conceptual aspects of a road-trip.
With the essence of a long poem, this thematic collection uses contrasting styles of poetry, drawing on both narrative and experimental influences, as a vehicle to pull the reader through this exploration — much like the car that pulls its passengers through rural and urban spaces. It provides an opportunity for the reader to observe not only the physical journey but the people that populate the stops along the road.
Contemplating Vows
Published 2011, Katabatic Books
Contemplating Vows is a collaborative work, co-written by Nicole Pakan and Patrick M Pilarski and published by Katabatic Books in 2011. The poems are inspired by love, but not in the traditional romantic sense. It celebrates light heartedness, finding love notes in one’s shoes, and the everyday wonders that make every couple unique.
Poetry
4 days
January 2009, Published in Blue Skies Poetry
Trail Blazer
January 2009, Published in Blue Skies Poetry
The Sand Remembers
January 2009, Published in Blue Skies Poetry
Spaces
January 2009, Published in Blue Skies Poetry
Bullets or Glass
Published in the fieldstone review