Orbis – Joanne Merriam

I say, “Yes,/Grampie, that’s me. I’m Sharon’s daughter./I’m your granddaughter. You know me.”

6 April 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Stirring has just put out their April issue, which contains my “Rex Sestina.”

All fuck yous to loss and one giant yes/to memory

3 April 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Just received an email from the editor of Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal saying she was mailing out issue 150 this week. A poem about

I acknowledge that I live in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq nation. This territory is covered by a series of treaties of peace and friendship which recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people. The stories of First Nations peoples have been told in Mi'kma'ki for centuries, and I commit to holding space for those stories to be retold. Moreover, as a guest on this land, I affirm that I have a duty to be mindful of my environmental impact and to reflect on and hold colonial systems accountable.

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I say, “Yes,/Grampie, that’s me. I’m Sharon’s daughter./I’m your granddaughter. You know me.”

All fuck yous to loss and one giant yes/to memory