One of the three Forrest Gander translations featured in the autumn issue of The Fiddlehead.

Such a great song. Maybe her finest.

eased of / the jagged sky and all / its petty imageries William Carlos Williams

Another Robert Bly miniature. Really feeling the presence of his old friend James Wright in this one.

Robert Bly

What a poem!

"the ruin of our garden / in the early dark of November" Jack Gilbert

David Rivard

Robert Frost

A Halloween message from Charlie and Ira

A Thomas Hardy poem for Halloween

For Halloween this year, a sinister elm poem by Alfred G. Bailey. One of Canada's leading modernist poets, Bailey was not only a key figure in the New Brunswick literary scene, he also founded The Fiddlehead. 🎃🌳

One month until the disability issue deadline, folks. Keep those poetry submissions rolling in!

Edward Hirsch

Emily Dickinson

Another poem by Karen Solie, this one featuring a blue jay

Love this. Look for a suite of new poems by Carl Phillips in the pages of The Fiddlehead in 2026.

For folks who don't know it, here's the "kick-ass" Diane Seuss poem Beth Ann Fennelly refers to in her article.

A poem by Karen Solie, whose new book has just been awarded the 2025 Forward Prize for best collection.

Heather Christle

Gregory Orr

Ben Lerner, with a riff on Defoe

Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover. Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305

Franz Wright with an aubade for his father

Another poem by Tracy K. Smith, this one dedicated to Linda Gregg

Game 7. Let's do this!

Anne Carson

More anthology news! A lovely review of VERSUS VERSUS for Write Out Loud, by Kathy Owston, retired Teacher of the Deaf and volunteer trainer of the national Down Syndrome Table Tennis squad. VERSUS VERSUS is available to purchase from bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

Tracy K. Smith

Tess Gallagher

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Absolutely thrilled to have five from hem, a chapbook I published with Gap Riot Press, shortlisted for this year's bpNichol Chapbook Award. five from hem features poems written in the voice of women from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many gratias to Gap Riot, the judges, and the Meet the Presses Collective.

Les Murray, born on this day in 1938

Tom Clark #WANTITALL

Saskia Hamilton

Blue Jays win! Scherzer!

Donald Justice, on this rainy day in autumn

Carl Phillips 💙

The final poem in Fanny Howe's Second Childhood (2014)

Linda Pastan

e.e. cummings, born on this day in 1894

Robert Lowell's most memorable line of verse? Maybe. Any others come to mind?

Diane Keaton as Renata in Woody Allen's Interiors. RIP, queen.

Anne Carson, from the Summer 2025 issue of Daedalus.

Victoria Chang

Another ecstatic poem by Ross Gay, this one for general audiences.

What's a great movie image that is ingrained in your head?

Ross Gay, for the night crowd

Laura Kasischke

A Larkinesque vignette by Tom Paulin, whose new collection was just shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.