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Abena A-Green
Rose Adams
Jamil Adas
Ajoke
Erica Allanach
Nicole Allison
Alan Almon
Glen Amirault
Victor Andrews
Anonymous (any author that has published anonymously)
Grailing Anthonisen
Mary Ann Archibald
Maximillion Archibald is a writer, cook, teacher, lover, and friend from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here to create something that can move someone else.
Anthony Arsenault
Kate Arpin
Bethany Rose Artin
Bethany Rose Artin is a pen name for a local writer.
Val Aston
Val Aston was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1934. She went to the University of British Columbia and studied English and Geography. She has been married to Geoff for 62 years, has a son, a daughter, and two granddaughters. She worked as a Real Estate Agent for 34 years. She has an adventurous spirit and loves roller coasters, zip-lining and hot air balloons. She enjoyed the CN tower Edge Walk and flying in a 2 seater plane. Val has written many limericks and poems over the years. She moved to Bedford, Nova Scotia, from Ontario a year ago and has been inspired to write more poems and short stories.
ASW
Sara Asyyed
Georgia Atkin
Georgia Atkin is a writer and freelance editor living in Halifax, NS. She holds a BA in English Literature and Environment, Sustainability & Society, and she has edited the monthly Open Heart Forgery issues since 2014. In her spare time, Georgia writes Wikipedia articles and vanquishes Sudoku puzzles. Find her at her website: www.georgiaatkin.com
- Silver
- ‘Til Night is Overtaken
- A Wish
- Seasonal Delivery
- Love
- In the Long Nights
- Words Young
- Afterwards
- Write On
- Luminosity
- Signs of Life
- Scatterbrained
- Advice from a Warrior Queen
- Physics of Falling in Love
- Latitude and Longitude
- Shifting
- Astronomical
- Delirium
- Salt-Blooded
- Deep Waters
- Navigation
- Objection
- Regarding Bananas
- Paradise
- Valiant
- Letter of Eviction
- Blues
- Tomorrow
- Horizon
- Wild
- Whispers
- As Many Words
- Epic
Graham Atkin
- Now this rampant species is consuming me
- Renaming a species – Part 3 of 3
- Renaming a species – Part 2 of 3
- Renaming a species – Part 1 of 3
- Platoon
- Dollars in Their Profit
- Ode to Flinty Cat
- Who Needs Time?
- Escape
Haleigh Atwood
I have been writing poetry since I was fourteen years old. It has always been my passion to turn real-world experiences into literature. Growing up in the country roads of Colchester County, I was able to absorb nature and use that as inspiration fully. Another one of my biggest inspirations is my family. They are the center of gravity for me. When I turned eighteen, I moved to Halifax, where I currently reside with my lovely partner. Moving to the city turned my world upside down and exposed me to completely foreign experiences. Halifax is my newest inspiration. I hope to continue writing poetry because it is one of the most classical, popular culture streams, and I value its preservation.
Eitan Baida
Chloe is a young creative currently residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When she’s not working as a barista, she enjoys writing poetry and short stories. She hopes her writing reaches you, and that you enjoy reading it as much as she enjoys writing it.
Neil Bailey
Meg Baird
Meg Baird is a born and raised Nova Scotia girl who now lives with family in Calgary, Alberta.
- open window
- the wringing heart
- Maritime Rhyme
- Jack Frost
- Choices
- pride’s cloak
- Hot Summer Days
- magnolia blossoms
- the inspiration
- Two Gals
- Two Gals – 1
- traveling
- winter nights
- the night
- girl in white and blue dress
- deep city day-dreaming
- The Roar of War
- Icicles
- Girl With Dog
- The Great Debate
- The Organist’s Cat
Tim Barker
Irene Baros-Johnson
- Last Garden Crops
- Dazzling Halifax 100 Years Ago
- The Trials of Leto
- To The Further Reaches (Pt 3)
- To the Further Reaches (Pt 2)
- To the Further Reaches
- Asterisk
Sandra Barry
Russell Barton
Nicole is a student studying psychology and French. She strives to combine her interest in poetry with her studies by writing about her personal experiences with mental illness, as well as by writing in both English and French. As an autistic creative, she aims to challenge stereotypes of what it means to be autistic. Nicole can often be found in the Library with an extra-large coffee (or two) from Timmie’s.
Adam C. Bateman
Leslie Anne Bateman
Nelly Bateman
Joyce Baxter
Roxanne Beavers
Sean Bedell
Isa Bee
Meredith (Ma) Bell
Ed Belzer
Chris Benjamin
Koi Bennett-Taussig
Aditya Bhadra
Nola Bishop
Kathryn Bjornson
Elise Blacker
Stephen Blacker
Jenni Blackmore
Lori Boivin
Melissa Boland
Melissa was transplanted to Nova Scotia in 2006. Born and raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, Melissa has been a community social worker in greater Halifax since leaving the Picture Province. In her spare time, she writes poetry inspired by spirituality, life’s conundrums, and nature.
G. Lucky Bolger
Matt Bonn
Sam Boomer
George Borden
- Oh! To Be Irish
- Uncertain March
- ‘Tis the Rain
- ‘Tis the Wind
- As I Take My Leave Of You (to my soul mate on passing)
Hannah van den Bosch
- Quatrain for Ada’s Place
- Sonnet Composed after reading the first stanza of Pushkin’s Onegin
- Ballad for my Favourite Master’s Candidate
Taylor Bourassa
Holly-Lynn Bourgeois
Natalie Boyce
Natalie Boyce has an unstoppable passion for writing, and a burning love for all animals big and small. She will continue writing poems and stories for people of all ages to enjoy.
Rosemary Boyle
Earl Bradford
- Trails
- Equinox on the Ice
- Windows
- Lady from Budapest
- Roe Deer
- Grief
- Fore-Fathers
- Rapscallion
- Port of Shadows
- Treasure
- Margins of Sand
- Book
- Hard Drive
- Mother’s Against Procreation
- October; Mardi Gras
- Summer’s End
- Plethora
Charlie Brake
Russ Brennan
Mitchell Brinton
Rick Brison
Lois Brison-Brown
Valerie Broadnax
Devin Brown
Dorothyanne Brown
Dorothyanne used to live on the Dark Side but has relocated to Kingston, Ontario, where she gazes at Lake Ontario and pretends it is the sea. She writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, and her alternative history book, Recycled Virgin, is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1999288424/
Follow her webpage at http://dorothyanneb.com for musings, writing information, and news about her upcoming books.
- An unwelcome package
- Gloomily Ruminating On the Day Ahead, or waking to an email saying I have been rejected
- Learning again
- Post-modern living in sin
- Put together
Paul Brown
Phil Brown
Phil is British but moved to Nova Scotia in 2017 after escaping from a career in global insurance. After setting up home in Hammonds Plains, he is pursuing his love of poetry and street and portrait photography. He is also learning to play the piano, still dreams of forming an Indie Band, but unfortunately remains convinced he is tone deaf. Phil’s many influences include the poetry of Ted Hughes (Remains of Elmet), the photographers Deborah Turbeville and Horst P Horst, and the music of P J Harvey and Wolf Alice.
Tyler Brown
Janet Brush
Janet was born in Halifax, and spent most of her life here. After a career in accounting, a choice necessitated by the need to eat, she is now free to pursue her love of poetry, and for the last three years, to study English Literature at Dalhousie.
- Crow
- Grief
- A Winter Day
- Secrets of a Mirror
- Abecedarian About Rhetorinarian
- The Lovers
- She Who Was the Helmetmaker’s Beautiful Wife
- Harvest
- Fairies
- Reading on the Bus
- Two Photos
- If Walls Could Talk
- The Last Long Sleep
- Dandelion
- December 6th 1917
- Last Gift
- Earthworm
- Rituals
- Age of Bronze
- Dream Redux
- Not Welcome
- Prejudice
- Sunset
- Bosom Buddies
- Homecoming
- Haikus For Spring
- You Can’t See Me
- The Dance
- Love
- Philomela
- Saved By Books
- Haiku For October
- The Hat
- The Cruelest Month
- Just Looking?
- Bad Habit
- Another Dream
- For Spring – # 1
- For Spring (#2)
- Memories of Liana
- Downtown
- Granite
- Family Reunion
- Who Am I?
- Rain in the City
Morgan Buhr Boutilier
Jonathan Burchill
George Burden
Sheila Burke
Kirstie Burns
Laurie Burns
Laurie Burns is an English as additional language teacher to immigrants, literacy volunteer and voracious writer and reader living in Halifax.
Alex Buys
Jeff Byrnes
Patti C.
Ali Calladine
Brett Campaigne
E.M. Campbell
J. Lorraine Campbell
Michael Campbell
Normand Carrey
- The Show is Coming to an End
- Poem for a childhood friend
- The Cathedral Fig Tree
- Ezra’s Instructions for Loving Without Bruising
- The Flight Out
- The Mouth of the River
- The Belly of the Monster
- Machismo
- Crater
- The Sound and the Fury
- Elegy for Trump’s Father
- Harm Reduction
- Belong To Any Church
- Little Accomplishments
Echo Carter
Echo is a junior high school student who enjoys playing soccer, running, and playing the piano. She writes obsessively and loves spending time with her dog.
Sarah Carter
Tim Carter
- Consigned to Oblivion
- Fly
- Airport
- I know it
- Storm & Shelter
- Magnets
- The Day the Dead Walk
- Nothing
- On the Field
- The one place
- Alone in the rain
Kristen Chafe
Marilyn Challis
- Protect Our Beloved Earth
- Fall
- Tribute to an Evergreen
- Light at End of Icebox Tunnel
- Polar Vortex Begone
- Haiku to Winter Season
- Haiku for the Unsung Dandelion
- Gift Haiku for Mother Nature
- Requiem Haiku
- Ode to a Rogue
- Pining for Pines
- Haiku on Rain
- Gratitude for Rainfall
Jasmine Chater
Jasmine Chater is a teacher living in Bedford, Nova Scotia. She completed both her English and education degree at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published poems in local and online journals. She enjoys the poets of the modernist movement such as Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens. Jasmine believes it is vital to make creative expression a central part of the classroom.
- How Would You Like Your Falafel?
- Shawarma
- Cedrus Libani
- Twelve Inch TV
- Amy
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- 49
Marian Chisholm
Lesley Choyce
Stephen Patrick Clare
Caira Clark
Sophia Clark
Katie Clarke
Kimberly Cleversey
Richard Collins
- 16th Street
- No Door
- Purely
- A Storm of Moth White Wings
- Starlit Mystique
- My Father’s Eyes
- Indefinite Wake
- Bond
- Saoirse
- At Times off
- Alone in Antigonish
- A dull place
- Ephemeris
- Plexus
- White Balloon
Marc Comeau
Shanay Comeau
Hana Conevska
Jayne Cook (also published under Jayne Reilly)
Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke attends Dalhousie University. She plans to double major in Law, Justice, and Society and Philosophy. Since arriving at Dal, Rachel has gotten involved in OxFam, the Dal Gazette, and the Loaded Ladle. In her free time she likes to write, take a spin class at the DalPlex, or discover a new cafe in Halifax. You can usually find her at Coburg Social with a matcha latte and a pile of notebooks.
N Corbett
Brent Cosgrove
Natalie Couture
Tim Covell
Tim is a technical writer, author of fiction and non-fiction, freelance editor, and simple web site guru. He studies film classification systems, has a weakness for limericks, and is a firm believer in the Oxford comma. He’s published a romance novel, Ocean’s Lure, and is working on another one. More at www.covell.ca.
- Playtime
- Initiating
- Road Trip
- Cosmic Dust
- Dad’s Cars
- Working for Warmth
- A Montreal Exotic Dancer Works a Three-week Shift at a Sault Ste. Marie Club
- Linger
- Life Drawing Lesson
- Better Days
- The Doughnut Shop
- Elaborate
- The Pause That Refreshes
- Ferrying
- Cleaning the Mall
- The Shutter Opens
- Damp Days
- Sometimes at Night
- Thoughts on the Opening of Yet Another Gourmet Burger Emporium
- Gentle
- Spring Garden Road Walks
- Winter Walk
- Public Gardens At Night
- Night Shift
Oliver was born in England and moved to Nova Scotia when he was a teenager, where he met the love of his life and now mother to their two sons. He’s been writing poetry and fiction since he was a boy, and after receiving an education in philosophy and English he now writes for a living.
Edith Croft
Peter Crofts
Santina Cross
Dianne Crowell
Holly Currie
Peter Curry
Katy Curwin
Ryan Daly
M. de Lacey Davidson
Matthew de Lacey Davidson is the author of two poetry collections; a play in verse; a collection of short stories entitled Roses in December: Haunting and Macabre Tales; a historical novel about civil rights leader Frederick Douglass’ first trip to Ireland, Precept;, a mystery novel set in the Maritimes, The Worst Dogs; and an anthology entitled, A Barren Stage: Collected Poems, Essays, Short Stories, and Novels. Precept was voted one of the top ten self-published books of 2018 by thebookbag.co.uk.
He has had poems, articles, cartoons, and short stories published in the online literary journals: “The Junction,” “Pickle Fork,” and “The Writing Cooperative” on the website Medium.com and in the online journal Danse Macabre. He lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his wife, Shayna, and a plethora of Siamese and Tonkinese cats.
https://matthewdelaceydavidson.wordpress.com/about/
- Ars longa, vita brevis
- Pushkin’s Merry-Go-Round
- Serendipity
- Great Village, Nova Scotia
- Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man
- Empty Restaurants
- When Borders are Crossed
- Waiting for Augustine
Donna Davies
Roger Davies
Haley Dawne is working on her MSc in oceanography and loves writing poetry in her spare time. She has a BSc in Environmental Science and is studying carbon cycling in Arctic marine sediments. Her favourite poetry themes are curiosity and reflection and she often likes combining both the scientific and creative thought processes. Many of her poems were actually inspired while collecting samples in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Her other hobbies include riding a motorcycle and playing the guitar, and she loves to travel when she can afford it. She hopes to become an oceanographer and a poet. Follow her Instagram account for more of her poems: @haleydawnepoetry.
Joan Dawson
Robert Dawson
- Houston’s Voluntolds
- “The tropical storms”
- Untitled
- Somersault
- Trail Clearing
- Underdog
- editing poem
- Honorifics
Dave Dean
Em Dee
Mandy DeGeit
Laura De Palma
Victoria Desjardins
Burris has enjoyed a full career as a high school teacher and principal in Halifax, where he was born and grew up, but he also found opportunities to work in education and development over many years in seven African countries. He is the author of two memoirs, African Chronicles, narrating his and his wife Louanne’s experiences in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Nigeria during turbulent times in the 1960s, and The Gambia Saga, which details their work and their family’s life experience in The Gambia and Sierra Leone over a span of nearly 30 years commencing in 1982. Burris is also the editor and principal author of Always a Work in Progress, which outlines the evolution of social democratic policy within the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party since its founding more than half a century ago. He also wrote, co-edited and co-published a full-length film, The Gambia Project, which won an Award of Excellence at the 1987 Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. He is working on a series of poems on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Jennifer Deyarmond
Owen Diamond
Zoe Dickinson
John Dicks
Arlene Diepenbrock
Rebecca Dingwell is a freelance writer and editor based in Halifax. When she isn’t working, you can sometimes find Rebecca trying to stay upright on either roller skates or horseback. More likely, though, she is curled up with a book and a cup of tea (or a pint of beer).
Sarah Dobson
- A trip to Provincetown
- Time Capsule
- Death Doula
- Lullaby 1973
- Damage
- Haint Blue
- The Jungle
- The Archer
- 3 Haiku
- Obliteration of the Alliteration
- Gage Park
- Aslant
- Barn Swallow
- Deflection
- Cycle Path
- Between The Lines
- Dreadnought
- Smidgen Of This
- Dance of the Giraffe
- scissorbill
- Alluvial
Ryan Dodge
Ella Dodson
- Fairy Castles
- Threshold
- Holiday Lights in the Dark
- Woman’s Beauty Made Transparent
- Mother’s Lost Heart
- Dangling
- Blizzard Meditation
- Fanfare for Fall
- Vexed by Words
- Wild Blackberries
- Haiku As Tapas
- Samba to Salsa
- Crone’s Job Hunt
- Bread Sacrifice
- Remains of the Sabbath
- Hot Night Jazz
Brad Donaldson
Zoe Doucette
Daniel Dover
Brian Downey
David Du
Writing poems is my hobby. Before I came to Canada, I wrote Chinese and Japanese poetry. When I arrived in Halifax, I started writing English poems, and I have written over 100. Perhaps you wonder why I like writing English poems. A story that happened in Halifax caused me think about writing English poems.
One day when I finished my shift, on way home, I saw a lot of people gathering at a bus stop. I heard noise come from there, so I forced my way into the crowd. I saw two birds: one is dead, and the other one is crying and pecking at its partner. When I saw this scenario there was one word in my mind—Life! As well, as I thought of a poem that I read it before, The Vantage Point, by Robert Frost. I remembered the last sentence of Frost’s: “I look into the crater of the ant.”
How it is similar to the life between human and animal!
At that time I decided to write English poems. I felt I needed to use some way to express compassion in Canada. I wrote my poem: ”Life.” Now I am very happy that I can write some English poetry to express the life and enjoy my life in Canada.
I have published a book of poetry: Journey: Life is a Journey from A to Z
- Caring no longer about the spring
- Shattered
- While the needle’s shooting
- Haggard Word
- Corner
- To a Swallow
- I hear Scot will move from Halifax
- A thought of the fall season
- Different shadows reflecting a feeling
- A song of travelers
- Street Light
- Old Building
- In May
- Listening to Rain
- Sea Wave
- Quiet Blue
- Sight
- Time is like a Knife
- At Dusk
- Life Needs More Poetry
- A Song to Snow
- Snow Rain
- An Uninvited Guest
- Woke Up
- Memory
- A Special Love
- Life
- Journey
- Sun in Winter
- Shower
- Weak fading eyes
Patrick Dubé
Joffre Ducharme
Piper Duquette
Maria Duynisveld
Seth Earle
Ryan Eavis
Aaron Eisses
Born and raised in Newfoundland and now living in Halifax. I started writing poetry in 2012 and have passion for writing and sharing my talent with others in the hopes it inspires others to live their dreams.
Evelyn Elgie
Barbara Ellis
- The Door
- Independent Living
- Mercy
- Moonflowers, Baltimore
- Force 4
- FOOLS for a BABE
- Trawling
- Lifelight
- Dry Fall
- Listening at Writers’ Group
- All My Waxwings
- Rock Pool
L. L. Enkidu
Beth Enman
Michéla d’Entremont
Tiffany F. L. M.
The Fantastic 3
Mylah, Kyliee and Ella (AKA The Fantastic 3) are best friends. Mylah loves her two dogs; she enjoys being with friends and family, and loves to make people laugh. Kyliee is great at singing and has the kindest heart, which makes her a great friend. Ella has a good imagination; she loves art, fashion, and being with her friends.
Joy Farrell-Grove
Marjorie Favretto
Janette Fecteau
Felicity, Colleen, Sam & Steve
Mark Fenwick
Chiara Ferrero-Wong
Chiara enjoys nothing more than reading in bed, and throwing a Frisbee with her friends!
Dhavita is a mother and wife currently living in Dartmouth NS. Her debut book of poetry, Purification, is available on Amazon and was inspired by her practice of meditation and healing from post partum depression and anxiety.
Roger Field
Emma Fleet
Nicole Fleming
Melissa Fougere
Daphne Frandsen
Nicholas Fraser
Regan Fraser
Charlie Friesen
David Robert Fulcher
Sarah Gammon
Halifax born and raised poet, writer and artist. A woman with a free spirit and a heart of gold.
M. L. Garoutte
- My Dreams Are Elaborate
- 2023
- A Course You Might Take
- Silk Screen Sylvia
- Screen Presence
- Poker Words
- Layers Of Poetry
- Kitchen Islands
- The Capturing of an Essence!
- Gift In An Attractive Box!
- 2022
- Love, Repetition, High Tech
- In Your Own Company
- Balance Sheet
- Philosophy
- Composition in Rectangles!
- A Smile From A Veil
- 2021
- Shakespearean
- Mindlessness
- Intersection Which Has Only Scarlet Lights
- Silence
- Lingua Pecunia
- ❤ A Poem Made Out Of Hearts ❤
- 2020
- Edible Haiku
- Symbols And Signs
- Explaining Rectangle Poetry
- “Wash Shoe!” Or Not To “Wash Shoe!”
- The Intersection Of Music And Math
- Play’s The Thing To Catch The King!
- Time Travel
- Me
- 2019
- The Alexandria Project
- Rabbit Tourist Trap
- Haha
- Band-Aid On Street!
- Pleasure
- Rest and Entertainment
- Small Square Plastic Lettered Keys!
- How Often Has It Been Said?
- 2018
- Fame, More Fame, And Obscurity
- Conceit
- Acceptance Is All Right
- Maybe We Should Call Them Page Rivers!
- Nova Scotia Tartan
- Food Bank
- Identified Flying Subjects!
- Chalk Sandwich Board!
- Haiku
- Déjà Vu All Over Again!
- Lines On Being Out Of Focus
- An Origami Paper Plane
- Necessary Conditions
- Good Transactions
- Shakespearean Haiku
- The Same Story
- have a good time!
- Voice Lessons
- 4 Haiku
- Singing Chameleons
- Fun With Inertia
- Transformations
- Music And Lyrics And Videos
- Convergence
- Cinematic Snack Unseen
- Action And Hourglass
- Celebrity Compliment
- Fulfillment
- Breakfast Perspectives
- Lucky
- Security-Guard Brain
- Recalcitrance Of Thorny Lions
- O Trespass Sweetly Urged!
- Intersection Of Me & Them
- Good Food
- Cancelled By Phone
- Whirl Words
Hanna Garson
Jesse Garth
Anna Gaudet
Dominic Gauthier
Serena E. Gauthier
Helen Gebhardt
I was born in a small town in Ontario. I grew up on a farm, and moved to Kitchener at 18 to attend Bible college. Two years later I married, raised three children. Five years ago I moved to Nova Scotia with family. I love my new province and its people.
Pterry Gerrior
Samir Georges
Patrick Daniel Gervais
Daniel Gillis
Ron Gillis
Born in North Sydney, NS, I am a retired stevedore, sailor, and postal worker. My writing came late in life — song writing is my main interest, while I also dabble in poetry. I have received three FACTOR Grants for song writing, and my record as a Lyricist is on social media at this link: Ron Gillis ‘Lyrical Expression’. You can listen to some of my songs at my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGBhyvReVGTK9pG3ZBhKSYA
- Playing with Words
- Charlie’s Cart
- Creativity Denied
- A Father’s Prayer
- Soldier Poet
- Why
- Indomitable Spirit
- My Son’s Journey
- Coriano Ridge
- Thanks
- Iona 1949
- When I Think Mother
- Growing Old
- For Sale
- Song
- Iona Cape Breton 1949
- Approaching Season
- Bountiful Table
- Seasons
- Untethered
- The Seed
Alison Goodhew
Alexander Gopen
Geoffrey Grantham
Hayley Gray
Jennifer Graham
Jennifer Graham is a Gadfly. She grew up writing letters to her Grandmother, and continues to pen and post one every day to anyone who gives her their mailing address! Her favourite author is Stephen King.
Audrey C. Greenhalgh
Noelle Halef
Noelle lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia. In her free time she likes to play basketball and write fiction.
Robert Halperin
Kathy Hamidovic grew up in northern Nova Scotia and has lived most of her adult life in Halifax. Her poems, an outpouring of her busy mind, have appeared in several anthologies and other publications around the globe.
Alex Hanam
Bill Hanrahan
- Peninsula
- Spring
- The Commons
- Sad Story
- Not On TV
- Calliope
- Haiku Foo
- Lizards
- In the Swordfish Pulpit
- Bats
- Bloomsday Muse
- Take a Number
- Fire and Ice
Cathy Hanrahan
- Picket Fence
- Waste Not…
- A Girl and a Crow
- Time
- Summer Nostalgia
- Church Music
- The Boxer
- Vacant Eyes
- Life Lament
- Broken Promises
- The Faery Tree
- Dichotomy
- Serpentine
- Whimsy
- Barstool Ballerina
- Sea Song
- Crusader
- The Harvester
- Willow’s Wind
- Gin Fizz
- The Mill
- Diamond Tooth Trouble
- A Wishing Yarn
- Corporate Sports Cookies
- Lillian
- Abstinence
- Enigma
- Fall Walk
- Preacher
- Cinderella
- Spring Wind
- Fading Tulips
- Winter Morning
- Perseverance
- My Vine
- Storm
- Lilac’s Lust
Brian Harding
- Christmas will never be the same
- Waiting
- Granny’s Garden
- Today’s Thought
- Gone
- Today
- Sitting at the Border
- The Red Bus
- Crying in the Shadows
- Wine Glass Lady
- Sometimes
- The Artist
- East Coast Girl
- Pretty
- Evelyn
- Alone in a Hotel Room
- Tomorrow
- Better
- The Talking Stick
- Sea of Colour
Ciara is, in no particular order, a writer, aspiring editor, lesbian, and grandma-at-heart. She grew up in Halifax, but currently resides in Galway, Ireland, where she is completing an MA in Literature and Publishing. Her work has appeared in Púca Magazine and Rat World Magazine.
Nora Heighton
Darcy Helkenberg
Jari-Matti Helppi
- Except Alice and Arlo
- Echoes and Ice Cream
- Pandammit
- That Street
- The Curly Past
- As I Died
- The Bridge Man
- Halifax at Dusk, 1910
- Flittering Truth
- A Falling Symphony of Grey
- Window Blasts
- T.S. Eliot’s Ether
- A FORGOTTEN
- Senescence Cometh
- Walked ‘Een
- The Collywobbled Coddiwomple
- The Quondam States of Being
- Under the Grey Flow
- A Full Life’s Death
- The Road
- His True Love’s Dress
- Mount Helicon
- My Sisu
- Walking
- Oh Elenore
- To Bee a Flower
- The Stuff
- Same Rain
- On Wellington Street, Ottawa
- “My Round, Mr. Shelley”
- Hell
- Whatcha Gonna Do?
- On a Wednesday’s Night
- Perdition or Redemption?
- For Johann
- To The Writer
- There and Hear
- We
- Do I Must
- Those
- To The Ones
- AH HA
- Winter’s Lease
- A New Moon on the Rise
Randy Henderson
Christopher Henningsen
Luke Hibbard
Kathleen Higney
I am a Haligonian, born and bred.
Donna Holmes
Rowena Hopkins
Ariel Hopper
Brittanie Horne
True to her BDSM nature, Lady Brittanie takes her pain and transforms it into pleasure. Fully committed to enjoying her life — even when it feels like agony — she is in the middle of several literary projects based on this theme. She hopes to one day meet Dean Koontz, whose books saved her life. Becoming a famous author makes that more likely.
Angela Hou
Judy Ann Howe
Jim Hoyle
- Heart Condition
- Together
- After Pope’s “Essay on Man”
- You
- Pain
- Night Time
- City Wildlife
- Multitasking
- An old man’s tragedy
- Forbidden Journey
- Growing Old
- Almost a haiku
- When?
- Waking
- We’re Here Because…
- Tastes – Memory
- I see your morning face
- All is Vanity
- On seeing Chabas’ “September Morn”
- Reminiscences – Part 2
- Red Maples
- Reminiscences
- LOST
- Running
- Types
- Dusk
- (I)’m not there yet
- Rainbow on Loch Coruisk
- A Funny Walk
- Storm Stayed on Skye
- Elemental Sounds
- Tea Time
Wallace B. Hubbard
David B. Huebert
Josh Hughes
Tara Hurlburt
Thibault Jacquot-Paratte
John A. James
Scot Jamieson
- Ultimately, we have to ask “What IS ultimately?”
- Christmas, 2019
- Under a Shell
- Night Bike
- January
- Now That You Cannot Hear Me
- We Are Such Things
- Lean on your sill
- Sunday Morning
- No Time, No Help
- She Walks The Beach At Taylor Head
- Out at Cow Bay
- Not Members
- Following the Fallen
- (17S ÷ 3L) = 1H (X 3 = ?)
- Third Eye Wine
- Imagine the Truth
- Baby
- The Longest Shortest
- Squirrel
- Necessity’s Leash
- Still
- Time/Meaning
- soaring as true
- later, when we first met
- Firefly
- Beware
- 4 AM
- Trines on our side
- Where To
- Rainy Summer Night
- Explore
- Butterfly
- Starry Park
- Opening The Window
- In Camp Hill Cemetery
- A Star At Night
- poem may be monitored
- Despite Politics, Democracy
- Snowstorm Coming
- Real as the stakes
- Cost-cutter outsourcing
- Avian Samaritan
- Advocate’s counsel
- Ghost of the Valleys
- a kind of moss
- Judgement Day
- o, it doesn’t
William Jamieson
Victoria Jeha
Amanda Jendrick
Julie J. Jenkins
Meghan Jenkins
Heddy Johannesen
- Woods in Twilight
- A winter scene
- You come in the night.
- Magic Jars of Chickpeas
- The Saw Bug’s Toil
- Endless winter
- Midwinter
- Beautiful Horses
- Under a Blood Moon
Amanda Johnson
Ian is a retired union staff person and public sector worker. He is quite new to poetry having only been writing for a few years at the encouragement of his wife. He writes mostly for family events and when there is some unusual happening which seems to be humorous. He is interested in “nonsense poetry” as written by Edward Lear and Ogden Nash. He hopes to publish a collection of his works to date in the next year or so.
Joe Johnson
Alex Johnston
Robin Johnston
Davy Joiner
Davy Joiner was born in Pembroke, Ontario and has lived in many regions of the Canadian prairies due to a military family. He is currently a student at Dalhousie, and is a lifeguard and swimming instructor. He is looking to become a weather technician with the Canadian Forces.
Carol Jollymore
Riley Jones
Phillip Joy
Heidi Kalyani
A.B. Kamara
Bauke Kamstra is a poet and visual artist residing in Nova Scotia. His poetry has appeared in various journals including The Best of Vine Leaves 2015, Shot Glass Journal, Hedgerow Journal, Englyn Journal, and Blue Heron Journal.
His books “We All Reach the Earth by Falling” and “Passion Demands a Vocabulary of Desire” Vols. I to IV are published by Vine Leaves Press and are available in paperback and e-book on Amazon. You can see more of his Positively Wyrde work on twitter by following @wyrde, or Bauke Kamstra on Facebook.
Jobin M. Kanjirakkat
Samuel Keefe
Breanna Keeler
Charlie Keeler
Abbey Kelly
Adam Kennific
Kimm Kent
Sarah Kester
Teresa (she/her) is a writer and visual artist living in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work reflects what comes to her from experiences with the divine in a blessed life. Her family – a partner and two grown daughters, all writers, as well as her gentle and mighty grandson, inspire her to create from a place of increasing wholeness and joy.
Teresa’s work appears in Lived Magazine, Open Heart Forgery and Fathom Magazine and is forthcoming in Eunoia Review (December 2022). She was shortlisted for the Rita Joe Poetry Prize (Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia) in 2022, and she has two self-published books of poetry.
Marjorie Kildare
Marjorie lived facing Halifax Harbour, with a 180 degree view of sea, sky and sheer beauty in all seasons. Since she could barely take her eyes from the seven-foot windows, she wrote Haiku. Her book of poetry, Waltzing Time, is available for a donation to OHF.
Dale King
Kimberly M. King
Kimberly M. King is a writer, a poet, a blogger…. She has taught in the classroom, been a librarian, and done simultaneous translation of English/Spanish for international groups and meetings. Currently, she is the director of Barat Spirituality Centre in Halifax.
Suzanne Kittell
Devin Kowalski
Emily Krauss
Patrick Laba
Nadia LaCroix
Shaun Lafferty
- The Shark
- Flying Fish?
- The Squid
- Winter, To a Middle Aged Man
- Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts
- Starfish, why?
- The Octopi
Olivia Landry
Olivia Landry lives in Halifax, and hopes to be a teacher and a writer. She holds a BA in Women’s and Gender Studies, and an MA in Gender Studies. She adores her family, friends, and partner, and is so thankful that they enjoy reading her poems and stories.
Maureen Larkin
Ziad Lawen
Allison Lawlor
Allison Lawlor writes and lives with her family by the ocean in Prospect. She spends as much time outdoors as she can.
Logan is a lover of learning, language, and (a)lliterations. Chris is a Pseudonym is the first “fun” thing he’s ever published. He is originally from rural Alberta, but would much rather live here (sorry Dad!)
Michael LeClair Sr.
Middle-aged proud Grand-Father, grew up in South Woodside, Dartmouth. My interests are reading, writing, history, social awareness, music, guitar and I occasionally dabble in painting/drawing. I am a happily married man, three children and SIX grandchildren with a seventh on the way! I enjoy classic films, music of all genres (literally from Rap to Bach). I have an endless curiosity regarding physics, psychics, and anything science. I’ve been writing as a hobby since I was a child. I tend toward the eclectic, the eccentric and most everything between the two.
Fave quotes :
“Do you not see how a world of pain and sorrow is necessary to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” – John Keats
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion .” – Albert Einstein
Richard LeDue was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He currently lives and teaches in Norway House, Manitoba. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as Adelaide Literary Magazine, the Eunoia Review, Mojave He[art] Review, Little Rose Magazine, and Black Bough Poetry.
Bronwyn Lee
Pronouns: they/them. I’m a young poet who’s been writing on and off for the past 10 years. I mainly deal in Spoken Word, but range into various types of poems and writing styles, whatever seems to fit what I’m feeling at the time. I was born in BC, have lived in NB, and moved to Halifax 6 years ago. I suffer from BPD, ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression. I identify as a Non-Binary Pansexual. With that in mind, my poems deal in some heavy themes of mental illness, and what it’s like to be a LGBTQA+ person raised to be straight. I have no formal training on Poetry or writing, but hopefully I can still inspire. Lastly, please understand that while my Poems can be strongly worded, just know that I use writing as an outlet, and have sought out help. I just write when I have something on my mind, and it is my pure raw emotion attached, I don’t edit my words once they’re written, I just check for spelling mistakes. I hope I can create something worth your time. Thanks for reading
Robert Lee
- It is OK
- A Good Intention
- Embracing the Child
- Joyful Regret…
- It’s the least I can do…
- You Bet
- Words of faith…
- one down and not OK
Rosemary LeFresne
Caitlin Leonard
Erica Lewis
Erica has lived in Halifax since the age of 10. Her poetry has appeared in Polar Expressions’ yearly anthologies since 2010. In 2014 and 2015, her poems received Honourable Mention.
- Grief
- Reclamation
- Passion
- What It Was Like
- What You Have Done
- This I Dream
- Antidote
- Breathing Below Surface
- Twilight
- Music
- The Bringer
- Message Received
- Insanity
- Winter by Vivaldi
- Safe
- This Tree
- Storm
- Meagher’s Grant
- One Definition of Irony
- Kings and Queens
- Steadfast Is Hope
- Running Out
- Futility
- Apparition
- The Last Time
- Dreamer
- Tending
- Sacred
- Other Poets
- Helvetia
- The Vision
- Time
- Earth
- Longing
- Insatiable Appetite
Lara Lewis
Michele L’Heureux
Laureen van Lierop
Guohua Li is an epidemiologist by training and a poet by birth. He received his medical degree from Peking University and public health degree from Johns Hopkins University. Since 2007, he has been the M. Finster Professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology at Columbia University. A recipient of the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship, Dr. Li is the founding Director of the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Injury Epidemiology. He writes poems in both Chinese and English. To cope with stress and anxiety amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Li translated over two hundred American poems in the public domain into Chinese. The compilation of these translated poems will be published by Tongji University Press (Shanghai) in a forthcoming book titled 永恒的美丽 (Beauty That Is Never Old).
Joanne Light
- Row Houses in the North End
- Pebble
- In Vein
- Revisiting Davis Inlet
- A Day In London
- Arctic Interlude
- Sweet Salt High Summer
Travis Livingston is a writer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in South Africa, he lived in England before moving to Canada in 2004 and has lived here ever since.
- Published author: We The Faceless Artists Winnipeg, Manitoba 1976
- Producer/director for Dutch Mason, “Prime minister of the Blues”
- Sold to the National Library-Ottawa + 60 page Q & A interview
- Publisher: Crossroads Magazine, 1988-1991. Interviewed Stevie Ray Vaughn, Gordon Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker, Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, John Hammond Jr. etc.
- Evil is what Evil Does
- Mary Jesse Thompson
- i’m a lonesome man
- speaking as a man in love
- have you ever had the blues so bad
- we the faceless artists
- portrait of a medicine man
Lunchbox Lunatic
Scott Lynch
Lives on Lake Thomas in Waverley. Has lived, studied (Acadia), and worked in Nova Scotia all his life. Has had the good fortune to travel. Passions include poetry, cooking, photography and sport. Raising three sons, and a number of Rotary Exchange Students, with his wife Patty has been his labour and love.
- Capital morning
- Georges in New Minas
- she, cutting my hair
- a casting
- watching the purple finches
- fearing the screeching of brass monkeys
- January twenty, two oh two two
- Desideratum
- UR
- rare
- so now we know
- this singularity
- an afternoon with Jadis
- talisman
- shameless
- never expecting
- Self isolation and Social distancing
- just an appetite for life
- violet primrose and ritual washing
- O
- on the gulf and rage
- July at the Lake
- wellspring forge
- with a hammer
- Cajoled
- Hiemal Afflatus
- blissed
- like sleeping children
- leaves like lemmings
- avant le café
- forsaken
- taken for grant (ed)
- Here in May
- wii r
- The Number of Truth
- Manifest Destiny
- Pained
- Vexed
- goose (ed)
- a parade of late May
- blue accrue(ing)
- an oddity for me
- Lelantos’ kin
- evanescent bearing
- in Pluto’s realm
- in April at the library
- May 28
- the locusts
- In the time of rhododendron
- The Shore, Cape D’or
- February
- CPAP
- a singular lunch
- Conflagration
- Abenaki Myth
- Passion Pending
- Susurrant Soliloquy
- Red-winged Blackbird
- awb
- for the Irish in me
- this Amherst March
- Kiwi
- twenty four twenty
- inversion therapy
Annick MacAskill
Originally from London, Ontario, Annick MacAskill currently lives and writes in Halifax. Her poems have appeared in Prism, Versal, Room, The Fiddlehead, Arc, and other journals. Her writing has been longlisted for the CBC’s Canada Writes Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has a début collection forthcoming in the spring of 2018, from Gaspereau Press.
Benjamin MacDonald
Cassie MacDonald
Hughie MacDonald
Jordan MacDonald
Kevin McDonald
Michelle G. McDowall
Craig MacEachern
David MacEachern
I am a writer who has spent about 15 years helping many people deal with depression. I use the library for theory and the city as a classroom. Philosophy and psychology are my interests. Still one to speak with concern and encouragement to others. Hoping my writing can bring inspiration to anyone who reads it.
- New Age
- Soul Searching
- Love Wins
- In Support
- The Written Hope
- Meant to live
- First Degree
- Have Hope
- In Support
- Easy Living
- Soul Fulfilling
- Morning Hustle
- Public Harmony
- A Happening
- Universe Divine
- In the Making
- Garden City
- Early Riser
- Master the Art
- Stellar Performance
- Why Jump Ship
- So Why Not
- Vibrancy
- Meet the Dawn
- Winner’s Circle
- Nature Speaks
- Business Trip
- Breathing Heart
- Beauty Blessed
- All By Occurrence
- Live It Up
- Spread Your Wings
- Time Will Tell
- Sight to See
- Here to There
- Tune the Heart
- Led By Love
- By Nature’s Request
- Self Incarceration
- Christmas
- Faith at the Helm
- Sweet It Be
T. J. MacFarlane
Mike McFetridge
- It’s After Four
- Stay Inside
- Good-bye September
- Sadie Was a Lady
- To Make a Difference
- Dad’s Chair
- Three Score and Ten
- History Is a Mystery
- How Do You Do It
- To Those Eyes
- It’s 2021
- The Religious Pray
- It Should Get Easier
- The Ant and the Microwave Oven
- People, What Cha Thinkin’
- Sometimes
- Satisfaction Should Still Be Allowed
- Old Men and Old Women
- Tolerance
- Something To Be
- The Little Voice
- All May Not Agree
- When You Reach a Certain Age
- 100 Years
- A Cobbler of Words
- A Father’s Memories
- The Word Came Down
- It’s Really Quite Easy To See
- Oh What a Tangled Web
- DNA
- Avro Arrow
- Rambling, Rough-shod Rhyme
- Mr. Prime Minister
- Ode to My Granddaughter
- Greed
- The Working Class Rant
- An Old-Time Farmer
- Farming Is A Business
- Food
- Isolation
- Not Wanting to Offend
Alexander J. MacIsaac (also published as Henry Stevens)
Alan McIver
Marissa McKean
Born and raised in Atlantic Canada, Marissa spent most of her childhood with the ocean in her backyard. Thanks to this, much of what she writes is inspired by the sea in one way or another. As a neurodivergent writer, she often taps into her lived experiences with trauma, social isolation, and being very misunderstood as a child, but in a twist, she also tries to empower her readers and help them recognize their own ability to heal. Marissa currently lives in the Musquodoboit Valley with her husband, two daughters, and three cats.
Brittany Mackeen
Catherine A. MacKenzie
Cathy’s writings (poetry and short fiction) can be found in numerous print anthologies and other publications, as well as online publications. She writes all genres but invariably veers toward the dark—so much so her late mother once asked, “Can’t you write anything happy?” (She can!)
She published her first novel, Wolves Don’t Knock, in 2018 and Mister Wolfe (the darkly dark second) in 2020.
Cathy divides her time between West Porters Lake and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Blog/website: http://writingwicket.wordpress.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cathy.mackenzie.790
- Grasping Your World
- Behind the Mask
- Words Too Few
- Be Kind
- No Escape
- Faces
- It Only Takes One
- One Red Rose
- Only On Paper
- My Heart
- Time is Rhyme
John MacKenzie
Shallon MacKenzie
David R. MacLean
- Trickledown
- see through
- Betrayed
- a better way
- Alice Has Come Home
- mirrors
- Life’s Progress
- Clarity
- Youth and Old Men
- in concert
- posting
- cuddy in the storm
- softly
- it’s not easy
- I Hear a Voice
- Teardrops
- sharing words
- quartets
- voting Canadian style
John Wise McLeod
Dylan MacMaster
Born in Scotland, I emigrated to Canada in the 1970s. I am now retired, after a lengthy career with Alcan Aluminium Ltd, and prior to that with British Aluminium in the U.K. During the summer, my wife and I live in beautiful Lac Brome, Quebec, but escape to Florida during the winter. We have two children, who live and work in Montreal.
My wife and I regularly spend a couple of weeks in the fall vacationing in the Maritimes, particularly Nova Scotia with its many Scottish connections and of course visiting my brother-in-law, Richard Payne, in Halifax.
For many years, I have dabbled in poetry writing, mainly to mark special family occasions, but since Richard became involved in the activities of Open Heart Forgery, he has encouraged me to share some of my writings with a wider audience.
- No Tomorrows
- Catriona, that highland lass.
- Our Veteran Skipper. (in memory of Richard S. Payne, 1954–2022)
- Those days we stay home (Joy of confinement)
- Nature’s Sound
- Christmas Cheer Throughout the Year!
- Days with No Name
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Jaclyn has a deep love for the ocean and being outside. She holds a BSc in Applied Human Nutrition from Mount Saint Vincent University, and plans to pursue a master’s in food policy. In her spare time, Jaclyn loves reading short stories, drinking specialty coffee, and exploring NS.
Lindsay MacNeil
Trisha MacNeil
Joe MacPherson
John MacPherson
Robert Mader
Harry Wayne Mah
- On the road to Zen
- trippin’ l’amour
- shhh… pub in.action
- KE bites
- pro cra$ti nation pro gressin’
- chubby bell
- nEw . tOn ? chaiN.S
- pōdēəm
- Go Signs are Green
- and their names are . . ?
- He!senberg Unplugged
- Life = ‘inside’ Joke
- credit card
- why is the sky blue – act II
- litterbug.s m. i. a.
- sensorPINK@rock.3
- I.C.U. i.e. luv hrtz
-
circlecircus of c0nspiracies - minke
- Why is the sky blue?
- birdbrains
- uber.girl
- o r i g a m ! 6 5 0
- when Mommy leaves the kitchen
- metaphysical
- outta space
- sweep clean sweep
- Clank That Cosmos
mdbingham
Courtney Madore
Sylvia Mangalam
Luke Marciano
The last time Anna had a poem published was when she was in Grade 8 – which was definitely not yesterday! Her parents were both schoolteachers, so her love of reading and writing was nurtured early, and the passion for writing and reading is still ever present in her life. With degrees from StFX and Saint Mary’s, Anna spends her days as the Director of People and Strategy at Develop NS – a provincial crown corporation that helps to make Nova Scotia irresistible to people and investment. She sits on several local boards, speaks at conferences as often as she can, and tries hard to be an authentic, vulnerable leader.
When not working, you’ll find her with her family in Dartmouth; but in summers, you’ll find her on Ponhook Lake in Queen’s County, which has the best sunsets in the world.
Alicia Martin
J. P. Martin
Randy Martin
Edward Martins-Berki
Edward Martins-Berki is a Canadian freelance writer, poet, playwright, and copy editor. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of King’s College, taking courses in Classics and Contemporary Philosophy. He has previously taught English to adults, worked in information technologies, organized musical events, designed for the video game industry, and managed a federal political party. He has written over 300 sonnets, an English Style Guide, and a full-length play.
Ian James Matheson
R. Matthews
Nina Mazel
K.A. Meechan
Carmel Mikol
I am a mental health nurse and blogger on The Collective Mind (http://thecollectivemind.ca), where I explore how to create more positive life experiences through changing how we think. In the times when my writing results in spontaneous outbursts of rhyme, I write poetry.
Raised in an old coast guard station in Massachusetts, Sara spent most of her youth reading or clambering along the coastline. Her family spent their summers along the Kennebecasis River in New Brunswick for generations where she met her Canadian husband and started their family. She raised 5 children spending lots of time exploring the outdoors, reading out loud, making up stories, and creating little readers for them. She now lives in Dartmouth, works in public service and is studying psychology and writing at MSVU. She squeezes in time to write for pleasure as the eyes droop.
Heidi Monk
Jillian Moran
Whitney Moran
Laureli Morphy
Laureli Morphy lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She enjoys writing in her free time, especially free verse poetry.
Lionel Morrell
Bryson
Lorie Ann Morris (also published as Lorie Morris)
I am in my 40s, married and am now a grandmother, and I live in the community of Spryfield. I love to write poems, and I love animals. My favorite color is purple, and I love learning about history like WW1 and WW2
- I Am
- Sky Limit
- Color
- Hope
- Here
- Think
- Talk
- Hero
- Thirsty cat
- Believe
- Daughter
- Different
- Home
- Love Letter
- Thinking of you!
- Kind Heart
- Stars
- Heart
- New Year
- The Dreamers
- Believe
- Leader
- Breath of Fresh Air
- Kind Eyes
- Smile
- Stay
- Country
- Dream
- Gone
- When
- LOVE
- Once
- Fear
- Running
- Truth
- Sorry
- Follow
- Cats
- Real
- Fight
- Open Heart
- Illness
- Living with MS
- War
- Malcolm X
Roz Morris
Roz Morris is a self described queero weirdo who desperately wants to eat birthday cake with Sylvia Plath.
Tiffany Morris
Hugh Morrison
B Mosher
Ben Mosher is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mosher is Informed by interests in digital and mechanical modes of communication, with an appreciation for written and visual forms of everyday poetic language. These concerns have directed works in micro-communication systems coupled with intuitive and meditative processes of creation.
Pamela Mosher
John de Moss
Ms. Anonymous
Martha Muggah
Heather Mundell
Heather Murray
Zoe Murgatroyd
Ayesha Mushtaq
- A Fleeting Moment…
- The Fundamental Orient
- The Human Heart
- Lest
- The Paranoid Immigrant
- Anybody & Bumbling Bees
- Remembrance!
- Sorely Scored
- Graveyard Within.
Martha Mutale
Elizabeth Myers
Nicole Myers
Writer, humanist, professional daydreamer and music lover. Everything else just pays the bills. Visit: http://thepaperteapot.blogspot.ca for further musings.
- Storm Warning
- Come Spring
- Dearly
- On Top of the World
- ( amour fou )
- Muddler
- Haunted Basement
- She
- back/flash
- Commute
- De Profundus
- Caught In The Act
- All We Had
- All the Poets in Heaven
- SoCal Rescue
- Let Yourself Be
- The Smell of Books in Love
- Rock Ranger
- Mid-Sentence
- From You I Return New
- Aubade
- The Better Love
- Mash Up
- Feet Of Clay
- Lights, Camera
- His Eyes Rhyme
- Nothing Lasts
- Sobriquet (for JW)
Jack Myra
Shawn Myra
Angela Naugle
Chinenye ‘Zabrain’ Ndulue
My name is Zabrain and all I do is rhyme. Rhyme like fine wine taken at its prime.
- Another Valentine
- To My Unknown Damsel
- This Capricious HEART
- My Crush. My Thoughts.
- Release it: The Fart Rhyme
- When a Chess Player Falls in Love
Sara Drought Nebel
Dyrell Nelligan
- Onward Thinking
- Fear of Heights
- Keep on Dreaming
- My Silent Night
- Crumbling
- To Choose or Not to Choose
- Sail
- Let’s Last
- To Be a Child
- Nature’s Cry
- Self-Audit
- Unaware
- Within Me
Linda Nesbitt
Chris Nguyan
Chad Norman
Candace Oakley
Jonathan Olfert creates wood chips, spreadsheets, and short stories. He lives near Dartmouth with his partner and children.
Steven Osborne
Oliver Oldfield
Cathie Panteluk
Yoon Park
Scott Parkhill
Charlie is a Classics and Creative Writing student at Dalhousie University. They spend their days writing anything and everything they can, and their nights reading stories about pirates and vampires.
Jaywant Patil
- Cruise Ship
- World Peace
- Daydreaming
- Eye for an Eye
- Lord Have Mercy
- Maven Mission
- Heaven and Paradise
- Living by the gun
- Wine Magic
- Democracy
- The War of Good and Evil
- Love and Hate
- Halifax Waterfront
- The World Crisis
- The Earth Says
- Fruitless Tree
- Miracle
Patti Pattenden
Kelsey Patterson
Nicola Patterson
- Inflation 2022
- Relish Life
- High Noon
- Placebo
- “Have an ARTitude”
- “I like to hold my drumsticks”
- “Raindrops racing down the window pane”
- “I learned to be a driver”
- Meditative Haiku
- A Viral Limerick
- Relish
- Christmas Limerick
- Vibes
- Loose Change in a Bar
- Go Fly a Kite
- Flower Power
- Poetry in a Tea Cup
- Creativity
- Fake News
- My Funny Bone
- One Sunday Morning in Nova Scotia
Will Pearson
C. J. Pellern
Felix Perry
- Seascape Dream
- Mish Mash
- Echoes of Sad
- Origami Breezes
- Last Summer’s Rose
- Trout Pond
- The Funeral Boat
- Ravenous Tears
- Farm Memories
- Home Grown Sadness
Lianne Perry
Sarah Picco
Cheryl Pink
Memel Pound
- Untitled
- Paper Princes
- A Box Full of Hearts
- Shithouse Luck on the Bay of Naples
- Astronomer’s Bones
- Two Flowers
- An Immigrant Land
- Fulmination
- Syncopation
Donal Power
- You make a better window
- Ocean My Mother
- Plunge Into the Well of Night
- Everything Becoming Inside
- Day & Night in Kandahar
Megan Power
- Love of Place
- Messages from Tufts Cove
- Near-Constant Rain
- Varieties of Missing You
- Things You Were Right About
David Pretty
- Just Call Me Nostradamus (Pt 1)
- Paradise(dox)
- Opposition
- Subtle Observation
- Observation
- Anticipation
- El Dorado
Anna Quon
Anna Quon is a poet, novelist, and budding visual artist and animated film maker living in Halifax. She has self-published several chapbooks and besides Open Heart Forgery, has had several poems published in Open Heart Farming and other zines and online journals.
Beverley Rach
Deepthi Rajashekar
Allison Rangeley
James Rangeley
Karen Raynard
Randy Reede
Jayne Reilly (also published under Jayne Cook)
Laurel Rennie
Chantelle Rideout
Elizabeth Riegert
David Rimmington
Judi Risser
Visit Judi’s site: https://www.celebratinggod.photography/
Michele Roberts
Dan Robinson
Derek Robinson
Matt Robinson
Tom Robson
Julia Rose was born and raised in Nova Scotia. She is an undergraduate student at the University of King’s College in Halifax, pursuing a degree in Classics. Julia has been writing since she was ten years old, when her favourite teacher handed her a blank notebook and told her to fill it with anything she wanted. She has been writing in her spare time ever since. Julia loves to travel and is most inspired by the different places she visits as well as the unique people she meets along the way.
Nathaniel S. Rounds writes from Halifax, Nova Scotia. His collection of poetry was recently published by Feline and Nothingness Press, and can be read here: http://bit.ly/2ce3gG8
- Sugar on Corpse
- Wood on Wet
- Birdsong
- Repast
- “fricot a la bazette”
- Exiles in Ecum Secum
- Tempestuous
- Lapsed
- Tradition
- The Phenomenology of Broken Claims
- Held
- As Long as It’s Swingin’
- Mope
- Bristles
- Unsuitable
- Dealin’ With Dylan
- When I’m Ready To Die
- Graphite H(as) B(een)
- Upright
- The Session
- Last Letter Found
- Ruth
- The Ache / Shechita
- Horse Wisdom
- Courtly Love
- Pocket Cruiser (Weeping)
- Travels by Land and Air
- So Much Glass.
- Essential Worker
- Horror Vacui
Jeffrey Roy
Catherine Rubinger
Len Russo
Mark Ryan
- part ii: a path
- part i: the stadium
- A Murder of Crows
- Cranes
- this, morning.
- quietude
- war machine
- Solemn Adieu
- the hearse that read like a love letter
Norm Sabowitz
Sara Saddington
SarahEllen
Berendina P. Saunders
Richard Schaller
Christina Schlegel
Robert John Schwarzmann is a Dartmouth author and poet. He grew up in
Ottawa and worked in journalism, then spent years teaching English as
a Second Language in many countries. His new book of eight short
stories, Tales from the Darkside, is due to be released in October 2019.
Greg Scott
Matthew P. Scott
Zoe Scott
Born and raised in Middle Sackville N.S, Zoe fell in love with words at an early age. Throughout the years her passion for poetry has mixed with her musicality to transform into song writing. She holds both a Bachelor of English from Saint Mary’s University, and a Bachelor of Education from Mount Saint Vincent University. As a school teacher, Zoe loves exposing her students to various forms of poetry and being inspired by the beautiful creativity that explodes from their fingertips. In addition to writing, Zoe also has a passion for yoga, spirituality, dance, and community theatre.
Simone Sewell
Anika Sharma
Ashita Sharma
Sarah Simpson
Edwin Sim
Shilpa Singh
” strolling around ”
Naomi Slater
Cameron Smith
Chris Smith
Julie Smith
I am an outsider artist, world traveller, vegetarian bohemian. I will gladly smile at strangers, especially if they are animals. Looking for a place to paint again and until then I sketch and write and listen to as much music as my ears will allow. 🙂
Cheryl Sobie
Bernard Soubry
Molly Jean Spinney
Ali Squire
R. E. Stansfield
Ron Stansfield is a transplanted prairie person now living “upshore” in Port Hilford. He takes his inspiration from the open ocean which he swears looks just like the waving wheat fields back home. He writes in all genres and is currently working on a book of short stories.
Hailey Stapleton
Sara Star
Henry Stevens (also published as Alexander MacIsaac)
Luke Stevens is an aspiring young artist who is always looking to make connections! Feel free to reach out on Instagram @lugubrious_man!
- Our Beloved Mrs. Smith
- A Knight Stung by the Bee
- If Walls Could Talk
- Trapped Within a Tear
- The Flowers in the Garden
- As Time Passes
- Indignation
Jim Stewart
Rod Stewart
- Spring! Yes!
- Our Beloved Mrs. Smith
- Holidays!
- Hush!
- Been Where?
- Mama Bird
- How Sweet
- The Cardinal Prince
- Holiday Visitor
- Good Morning, Tea
- Been Where?
- Told You So
- Not Yet
- Winter Pond
- Winter is Coming
- Autumn Chase
- The Gardener
- Dirty Dogs
- Having Read Your X’s
- Winter Rain
- Holiday Hibernation
- October Maples
- Remember
- The Tire
- Summer Shore
- Potholes
- March On
- Oats for Breakfast
- Mittens
- Sock it to Them
- October Kitchen
- The Turkey
- Yard Sales
- Dress Up!
- Pansies
- Soup
- Easter!
- Grandad’s Garden
- First Snow
- Creases
- The Astronaut
- Mighty Thor*
- Prowler
- Nose Pimple
Spencer Stoddard
As a young individual I aspire to do my best in all aspects of my life. I don’t believe in “perfection” but I do believe in “improvement”. During my free time I enjoy going for walks, watching sports (Go Leafs), writing anything that comes to mind, and engaging in discussions regarding topics like metaphysics, astronomy, and spirituality.
Jasmin Stoffer
Jasmin Stoffer (B.A., B.Ed, M.Ed) is a local teacher and amateur poet. From 2012-2017 she was a Special Education teacher in Nunavik, Quebec – and began writing Haiku as a way of journaling daily. When she’s not writing poetry or teaching, she gardens, attends curling classes, and enjoys having adventures around town with her goddaughters, Ruby and Grace.
- Feeling Spring
- The work continues, with a chance of rain
- observations in the garden
- Spring
- The Cardinal
- What is today? A Poem of Self-Isolation
- All My Gurus are Dead
- Fear not the Woods or Ocean Near
- Home: a Meditation
- To Love
- The End of the Road
Bethana Sullivan
Mary Ellen Sullivan
Mary Ellen Sullivan grew up on a farm outside Guelph, Ontario, and now lives in Halifax. She is a regular contributor to Open Heart Forgery and is included in Open Heart Forgery: Year One Anthology. She has compiled five annual issues of Open Heart Farming, a free collection of farm and food-centric poems by Nova Scotia poets.
- Healing in Seven Generations
- Linda, In Many Skins
- In Paddy’s Shed
- Farmer’s Box
- Touch
- Finding Grace in Aisle Five
- An Anxious Beauty
- Grey Day
- 14 Things that Nourish Nova Scotia
- Home Invasion
- The Cycling of Seeds
- Seasonal Bites
- Mantle of Spruce
- A Quiet Democracy
- City Suitor
- Stupid Moves
- Wild Flowers for Jack
- A Good Drunk
- Bottled Up
- Giving
- Groundhog Hole
- A Saint for the Farmers
- Alfalfa Meditation
- Life is a Bowl of Cherries
Josh Svec
Hawa Swaray
Michael Swinemer
Laszlo Szantor
W. C. T.
Talib
Justin Tan
Elzy Taramangalam
- Strawberry Stigmata
- Cassandra Words
- Redolent Showers
- Transfixed
- Time Out
- Wandering Thoughts
- Voice Inside
- Travellers
- Begin Again
- Paging Cohen
- No Lesson in Botany
- Touching Sky
- Hisa at Hundred
- A Thousand Lilacs
- Sonsy
- Brag Talk
- Sisterhood
- Tree of Life
- Scrabble Song
- Velocity of Change
- Metamorphosis
- The Parade
- Winged Words
- Kotodama
- Reading
- My Friend
- Plover’s Prayer
- Reply
- Managing Transgressive
- Arriving
- Trail
- Wall of Hope
- The Spirit of Life
Cynthia Taylor
Ryan Taylor
- Highway Rustle
- The Undisclosed Fear
- She’s got the fire
- Party rocks
- Sticks and Stones
- 6am sickness
- The Tide Recedes
- Losing Passions
- Old Ships
- Nervous first dates
- Mustard passed across the dinner table
- Morning Peace
- Patio Floor in the Evening
- Empty houses of lost friends
- Aspirations
- Towns of Pity
- Westside of Queens
- Warehouse
- what’s this feeling called
- 2504880046
- Escaping Inevitability
- Mad Dog
- Tarps
Maria Thibault
Christen Thomas
Ian Thomson-McKinnon
Will Tilleczek
Jeff Torbert
Mary Ellen Touesnard
Christopher Trainor
Asha May Trenaman
Christine Beevis Trickett
Trillipede
Martha Tuff
Mary Upton
Lisa Vandenboomen
Steve Vernon
Anna Horsnell Wade
Martin Wallace
LeeAnn Wallage
Ken Wallingford
Poppy has lived in Halifax her whole life. She has always loved reading and writing, even from a small age. A high school student, she has already written four substantial short stories and many, many poems. Her dream is to be a published author and she is thrilled to have her poetry published in Open Heart Forgery.
Jordan Walters
John Wamboldt
Ginny Wang
Zihan Wang
Stephens Ward
Wendy Watkinson
- Hall of the Chosen Dead
- Tapping the Void
- Ripple Effect
- V
- Grief
- Oozing
- Change
- So?
- Happy Hour Haiku
- Renting
- The Loss
- I Can Tell
- Red Sky
- Next to You
Kristine Webber
H.S. Weber
Adam Webster
Gillian Webster
- The Top Drawer
- The Mighty Humber
- Morning Truths
- The Coatimundi Family
- Blue Morpho
- On The Sea Floor
- The Capuchin monkeys
Alexis White
Art White
I am an aspiring writer, and I try to spend as much time as possible when I’m off work creating and trying to better appreciate and understand the world around me. I’ve lived in Dartmouth all my life, but the Halifax library has become like a second home for me.
James Whitehead
David Williams
- Mulling
- Humanmas
- Dragon
- Carol
- La Repentir
- A Sacrifice Time
- It‘s loud across the forest
- Pass it on
- How Hot is August
- The Kissing Disease
- Aqualene
Tamara Williams
- Within the confines
- A Song Is Born
- I Am She
- common goal
- Untitled
- The River
- The Affair
- Corruptible Me
Charlotte Wilson-Hammond
Michael Wohlfahrt
WOTS Participants
- Wordless (Exquisite Corpse 2019)
- Too Early by Far for the End (Exquisite Corpse 2018)
- A Momentary Pause (Exquisite Corpse 2017)
- Exquisite Corpse Poem (2014)
Barry Wood
Barry Wood has self-published a dark short story collection on audiocassette titled Barry Wood’s Short Stories, as well as a short story titled Nowhere to Go, based in Nova Scotia, published by PS Publishing in London, England titled Postscripts 14 in Spring 2008. He has had a few other short stories published in the United States, etc. He is retired from office work.
Leah Woolley
Kay Wynne
I’m originally from Toronto and moved here in 2003. I’ve been writing since I was 14 years old. I had a stroke about 7 years ago and writing helps my brain function. By forcing myself to commit to writing I feel I can improve that part of the brain that needs help. I live in Dartmouth with my son and his family. At this point in time I use a walker but I do like to get around.
Jen Yakamovich
Daniel Yetman
Emily Young
Gordon is a native of Newfoundland. As a young man he enjoyed the rhythms, sounds and smells of the inshore fishery in Conception Bay. His poetry is largely biographical but not sequential as it builds on a tradition of storytelling. True to this tradition, he has learned never to allow facts, the pursuit of accuracy or chronology to diminish the value of a good “yarn.” The past thirty plus years in Halifax have both added to Gordon’s experiences and provided many new stories which are reflected in his poetry.
- Sara Visits
- Their stares
- No-hole
- Conversation
- Rabbit hole
- Fetch
- Bubbles
- A MMI woman
- Rosalie
- Jack
- Zoo
- Gift of Shadows
- The Noble Mallard
- Addiction
Joan Young
Robin Young
- The Low String (Three Brothers- part 1)
- The High String (Three Brothers- part 2)
- The Middle String (Three Brothers – part 3)
Ata Zargarof
Ata Zargarof can’t decide between becoming a scholar and a poet. In either case, he hopes to deepen the quality of his poetry by exposing himself to an abundance of ideas, both new and old. You can read more of his work at endlesswriter.com
Zember is a Halifax-based writer from Prince Edward Island. She is a Massage Therapy student and an artist working in abstract painting and poetry. Zember explores healing and the profound and tiny intricacies of life in her work. She has a deep love for trees, clouds, and asking questions (sometimes even to trees and clouds). Find her art page on Instagram: @zemberstudio
Brandon Zuniga
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