Bridging the Ontario Mississippi
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…
Carol Stephen
Carol A. Stephen is a Canadian poet, living near Ottawa, Ontario. Her poetry has appeared in <em>Bywords Quarterly Journal</em> and Tree Press/phaphours press collaborative chapbooks. Carol’s poems have been published online at <em>The Light Ekphrastic</em> and on <em>Silver Birch Press</em>. 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, <em>Above the Hum of Yellow Jackets</em> (2011), <em>Architectural Variations</em> (2012), and <em>Ink Dogs in my Shoes</em> (2014).
View from the Edge
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…
Ten Things I Carry With Me
After Gerald Stern Here, in this handbag, I carry a portable particle collider. Here, in this handbag, I carry a Toronto neighbourhood. I carry…