ArticlesSarah Ens
Sarah Ens is a writer, editor, and book publicist based in Treaty 1 Territory with a BFA in Creating Writing from UBC and an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of two poetry books, The World Is Mostly Sky and Flyway, which won the 2023 ReLit Poetry Award.
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FeaturesFound poetry traces stories from the tar sands to transform colonial record
Melanie Dennis Unrau’s imaginative and incisive poetry collection Goose retraces the steps of Sidney Clarke Ells, the self-proclaimed “father of the tar sands,” by literally tracing the text and images from Northland Trails, his book of short stories, poems, illustrations, and essays published in 1938. -
PoetryLong poem shares process of building kinship with pain, rebuilding sense of self
Tea Gerbeza’s powerful debut, the long poem How I Bend Into More, affirms disabled identity by giving voice to the body in all its complexities. Drawing from her personal experience with scoliosis, Gerbeza uses an intimate and inventive poetics to “grasp / what [her] body has / to tell [her]” and, in doing so, records a journey from ableism toward reclamation.
