Poetry

Selected Poetry

 

Chapbook, forthcoming, Alfred Gustav Press, 2017
"That Shining," forthcoming, Canadian Literature
"Prophecy," "Tonight," Grain, spring 2026
"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
Poetry resident, Vermont Studio Centre
Hawthornden Castle International Poetry Fellow, Edinburgh, 2018​

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Workshops

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

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