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Carol Stephen

Carol Stephen

Carol A. Stephen is a Canadian poet, living near Ottawa, Ontario. Her poetry has appeared in Bywords Quarterly Journal and Tree Press/phaphours press collaborative chapbooks. Carol’s poems have been published online at The Light Ekphrastic and on Silver Birch Press. In 2012 she won third place in the Canadian Authors Association National Capital Writing Contest and in 2013, was a co-director at Tree Reading Series Ottawa. Carol is a poetry selector at Bywords. She’s authored three chapbooks, Above the Hum of Yellow Jackets (2011), Architectural Variations (2012), and Ink Dogs in my Shoes (2014).

PoetryOctober 4, 2016

Bridging the Ontario Mississippi

By Carol Stephen

Spring, 1823 John Hays, night-crossing, canoed over the falls. Death by swift black current. Men crossed the river with the seasons: by boat, by ford, or over…

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PoetryMarch 22, 2016

View from the Edge

By Carol Stephen

At sunset drivers hide behind the last light’s reflections off glass, faceless robots at the controls, hands always at nine and three, becoming one…

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PoetryDecember 29, 2015

Ten Things I Carry With Me

By Carol Stephen

After Gerald Stern Here, in this handbag, I carry a portable particle collider. Here, in this handbag, I carry a Toronto neighbourhood. I carry…

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