Queer Poetry | The Miramichi Reader

Cover of Excerpts from a Burned Letter. The cover image is of tangled feet on a bed. The title and author's name is superimposed over the image.

Throwback: Excerpts from a Burned Letter by Joelle Barron

March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 by Susan Wismer

Within a faith tradition that sees only two genders, and from the purview of a small northern community, what can a young person know about themselves and their possibilities?

Cover of Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw. The cover is white with a drop of blood in the middle.

“Beauty in Filth, Rot in Divinity:” Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw

February 4, 2026 by Alicia Beggs-Holder

Their debut poetry collection, Stigmata, illustrates their prowess in queer theory, apophatic theology and poststructuralism that not only examines the tension between sexual deviancy and religion and how these two subject matters can have their own version of the profane,but also their thoughts and trying to make sense of their own being.