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SMALL TOWNS
Issue twenty, "SMALL TOWNS," is 68 pages of poetry, essays, original art, photography and reviews, edited by Kayla Czaga and Julie Mannell.
Editorial
Letter from the Editor
by Kayla Czaga and Julie Mannell
Essays and poems
A True Story of Good News
by Lindsay B-e
All towns are small
by Nisa Malli
BUMBLING: A FOUND POEM*
by Emma Tilley
Learning to stretch just a little bit at a time
by Jennifer LoveGrove
Nicer Than I Thought
by spencer butt
Getting "Peterborough Drunk"
by Janna Klostermann
How to Tear a Partridge Apart
by Christopher Joshua Bouchard
Woodstock, Ontario, 1996
by Jowita Bydlowska
Everyone in your hometown is discrete on grindr
by Matthew Stepanic
How You Remember It
by Tess Liem
Auntie Matter
by Jess Battis
Let's go to the Lake
by Spenser Smith
Loving
by Kit McKeown
Wasaga
by Gillian Sze
Don't Swing
by Curtis Leblanc
notes on spatial determinism re. gender and/or poetry
by A. Light Zachary
Dead Heat of Winter
by Isabel Yang
Garbage America
by Sara Peters
Oligotrophic Lake
by Alison Braid
THE COP SHOP DEER
by Shaun Robinson
Duplex: Grunthal, Manitoba (2019)
by Chimwemwe Undi
ON THE PLANET OF ALL TIME: TECUMSEH
by K.B. Thors
Oh, Brother
by Samantha Tetangco
At Christmas
by Molly Cross-Blanchard
Vestibular Problems
by Zoe Whittall
DEAR BOOK
by Adele Barclay
Conversations with Trees
by Sumaiya Matin
Reviews
Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
reviewed by jaye simpson
A Place More Hospitable by Jason Purcell
reviewed by Matthew Stepanic
Lift by Emily Davidson
reviewed by Margret Bollerup
Interview
An Interview with Susan Musgrave
Executive Editors
Ben Rawluk
Dina Del Bucchia
Guest Editors
Kayla Czaga
Julie Mannell
Art Director
Will Brown
Copy Editor
Elena Johnson
Volunteer
Mariah Devcic
Guest Artist
Jocelyn Tsaih
Editorial Board
andrea bennett
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Nikki Reimer
Sheryda Warrener
Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Sonnet L’Abbé
Sachiko Murakami
Christina Cooke
Jillian Christmas
Board of Directors
Aimee Ouellette
Roxan Marucot
Anthony Casey
Cynara Geissler
Jen Sookfong Lee
Web Designer
Left Right Minds
Printer
Hemlock Ltd.
Publisher
Daniel Zomparelli