Poetry

Selected Poetry

 

"On Not Writing About My Father Anymore," Arc Poetry
"Threshold," The Humber Literary Review

“In Another’s Country,” “Blitz,” “Not an Elegy,” The New Quarterly (nominated for a National Magazine Award, poetry) 

Finding the Form: What You Can Do Without, The New Quarterly

“The Strand,” July/August 2024, Literary Review of Canada 

“Roblin Lake Aubade,” July/August 2024, Bookworm/Literary Review of Canada, Toronto

“Explaining to the Future People,” “Inherited,” “Harvest,” “Hickories,” “My Father,” five poems, February 2023, Event

“Anniversary,” (poem), Juniper

“Letter to a Fallen Angel,” (poem) Literary Review of Canada

“Green,” (poem) Malahat Review

“Fallow,” CBC Poetry Prize​

“Fugitive Music” (essay & 3 poems) The New Quarterly, (nominated for National Magazine Award, personal journalism)

Finding the Form: “Fugitive Music”​

"Even the Smallest," ARC Poetry, Best Poem finalist

"Swans," Watch Your Head​

“Renga of a Distanced Spring,” collaborative poem/film, Skeleton Arts Fest​

“If I Stand Still,” Kingston Poetry Blackboard

“Meditation on Stress,” (poem) abovegroundpress
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Other
 

Contributing Editor, Arc Poetry Magazine

Contributor, Poetry in Voice: Fathers Poetry Mixtape Curator; “From the noble and beloved to the troubled, damaged and downright dangerous”; ‘Dive Ins’ & Poetry Bio Writer.

'Al Purdy A-frame Poet in residence,' 2023
Hawthornden Castle International Poetry Fellow, Edinburgh, 2018​

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Workshops

Kirsteen leads ‘Writing from the Body’ workshops at literary festivals, libraries, and in yoga and other community spaces.

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