Nighthawks

Lisa Martin is an award-winning poet and essayist. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, One Crow Sorrow and Believing is Not the Same as Being Saved, and a co-editor of How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss. Her work has received the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award for Poetry, an Independent Publishers (IPPY) award, and a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. She was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize in 2018. Her most recent works are Creative Writing in Post-Secondary Education: Practice, Pedagogy, and Research, a blend of memoir and scholarly review, and A Story Can Be Told About Pain, her first novel. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory.

• I.SynaestheticTwoTake DownArs PoeticaPoem at the Closing of a DoorMid LifeThe NewsIf You Really Aren’t a Racist, Take This Online TestElegyTypologyII.The PointPara-textsWhen There Is No Remedy For ItPost-partumQuestions of BeingFeminist PhilosophyLeft Breast with LymphAccommodationAdvanced Ethics for the Ex-CommunicatedAnti-Anxiety (a Homeopathic)III.Beaverhill LakeNotes on Arrivals and DeparturesBare Posts, Barbed WireField Guide to the Birds of AlbertaAssertions of LikenessObjects of the MarriageA Song, or CallLoveVergeNighthawksAcknowledgements

"Lisa Martin’s poems are written from the perspective of an 'expert / in worrying about the future,' imbuing Nighthawks with both consciousness and conscience, upping the emotional stakes of living in a 'storm coming, wind / alter[ed]' world." Jim Johnstone, author of The King of Terrors