2025 bpNichol Chapbook Prize: Judges’ Citation
By MA|DE and Kevin Spenst
“The multiform poetic texts presented in Ryanne Kap’s failed (after)lives move like bumblebees from pop culture to academic theory to personal conversation, turnign disparate flowers into a single, multifloral honey. Hovering between lyrical pantology of death and dismissively self-conscious witticism, this chapbook is a remarkable success.”
Review of goodbye, already
in The /tƐmz/ Review
By Adam Mohamed / Issue 29, September 2024
“If many of Kap’s poems are about grief that creates, they’re not constrained only to the subjects who grieve. Kap instead explores the perspective of grieved people who develop and subsist without subordination to subjects who mourn them. […] What Kap approaches in goodbye, already is a poiesis of grief in which everything lost is always already here waiting to be re-made, whether it’s an adoptee’s relationship with “home,” a past relationship, or lost grandparents.”
Review of “For This Time Only”
in Locus
By A.C. Wise / November 5, 2023
“The two standout stories in the issue, though, were “The Zones of Heaven and Earth” by Saad Omar Khan and “For This Time Only” by Ryanne Kap. […] Kap’s story focuses on a single woman amidst a group of couples, traveling to China to adopt a child. She stands out both for her race, and for her marital status, leading to some insecurity. The story takes a light touch with the speculative element at first, slowly building to the reveal that the children being adopted are in fact ghosts, or the idea of children who never got the chance to live due to the one-child policy. It’s beautifully written, with striking imagery, exploring loneliness and belonging, what it means to have a place in the world.”
Readings
Stroll of Poets
Woolf’s Voices
Launch of Ashley-Elizabeth Best’s Bad Weather Mammals
Launch of Ellen Chang-Richardson’s Blood Belies
Evening with Ben Berman Ghan, Peter Dubé, and Heather J. Wood
SpokenWeb Poetry Night
Launch of Jay Ritchie’s Listening in Many Publics
Launch of T. Liem’s Slows: Twice
Flywheel Reading Series
Launch of Amy LeBlanc’s Homebodies
Brockton Writers Series
Articles
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