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griffin epstein

about
poetry
music & media
teaching & research
links

poetry

community projects

  • WE READ TOGETHER (COVID-safer poetry project with Sarah Pinder)
  • Poetry Night (monthly co-facilitated community poetry group with Shannon Quinn and bryan depuy, affiliated with the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre)

chapbooks

  • it matters how we live (Black Sunflowers Press, 2026)
  • so we may be fed (Frog Hollow Press, 2021)

readings

  • Second Sunday Readings: Dec. 2022 with Andrea Deeken and Nicole Tallman
  • Second Sunday Readings: Pride & Joy Special with Nicole Tallman, Ben Kline, Andrea Deeken, Lannie Stabile, and Dior Stephens

selected poems

  • against diagnosis
  • be something else for awhile
  • box full of yearbook outtakes…
  • evening, after james schuyler
  • Family dinner
  • For Jonah...
  • In which I re-name my father
  • no births this calendar year
  • nothing holy
  • Poem containing only words I hate
  • poem for our tin anniversary
  • Reverse
  • SNICK
  • Somatic practice for those who wake up afraid
  • the month we stopped sleeping
  • This funeral is boring
  • trauma made me queer
  • Upon receipt of our Notice to End Tenancy, we consider the lives of birds
  • Visit Dublin
  • well-adjusted

random

  • optimal cringe: found poems from propagandhi's at peace
  • someday the universe will stop: video poem