Today's Poem and News from Contributors

all that and a bonus video!

Today’s poem is another from my and Fiona Macelli’s collaborative poetry and visual art installation in Calgary. The piece as a whole tells the story of my life’s unravelling and reravelling (to coin a phrase). This particular poem is about my giving notice to my landlady after running out of money.

Money is not NOT an issue for me anymore — I’d love it if you bought the small (around 30 pages) coffee table book Fiona and I are doing, which contains all the drawings and poems from the installation. You can order it here for shipment in June ($50 CAN, including shipping—about $35 US).

Notice

I’ll be out by the end of the month, I said.

I’ve been here seven years and now what, I thought.

You can keep my deposit in lieu, I said.

I have no idea what I should do, I thought.

This is not how I thought it would end, I said.

But your landlady isn’t your friend, I thought.

I ‘ll leave the place cleaned out and neat, I said.

I hope I don’t land on the street, I thought.

Contributor News

Carla Sarett’s latest poetry chapbook, Any Excuse for a Party, is out from Bainbridge Island Press. If you’re up for poems about Betty Boop and baby elephants:

https://bainbridgeisland.press/products/any-excuse-for-a-part

Eric Norris’s new book. Letters from Oblivion, is out on Amazon. His novella based on the life of Miniver Cheevy will be out later this summer.

Steven Searcy recently published two poems in the Winter 2025 issue of New Verse Review, as well as two poems in the Spring 2025 issue of Blue Unicorn (not available online).

Felicity Teague is looking forward to the release of her second poetry collection later this year. Her original contract had to be terminated due to ill health, but with help from friends and her older brother, she will be self-publishing. She has also set up a showcase for metrical poets—the latest issue is here.

Kelly Scott Franklin’s most recent publications are a verse translation of a Antonio Machado poem in Nimrod and his original poem “The Ballad of Martha Hunt” in New Verse Review.

David J. Rothman’s recent publications include poems in BoomerLit, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Expansive Poetry Online. His new collection, The Radio Poems, is forthcoming from Middle Creek Press this summer. It collects all his poems from his time as Resident Poet of Colorado Public Radio in the 2010s. David recently won The Frederick Turner Prize for Poetry from Mundus Artium Press.

Bonus Video!

Here’s a video of Fiona and me talking about the art piece of which today’s poem is a part.