news | Friday April 17, 2026

sometimes, forest Has Landed!

Hot off the press! sometimes, forest by Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner has arrived and is ready to storm your to-be-read pile. Considering how networks of lateral support mitigate and challenge hierarchical, individualistic structures, sometimes, forest develops a theory of hylofeminism (“hylo” from the Greek meaning “forest matter) that attends to a deep, communal connection with nature as a relational way of being with the self and the more-than-human world.

An excerpt from “daylight”:

“comb a calendar through my hair
pull pollen off every strand
blonded by bees”

sometimes, forest alternatively rails at and desires a fluid beloved, sometimes forest, sometimes lover, friend, mother, or an absence the speaker yearns for in herself. Returning daily to the same woods, the speaker notices minute seasonal changes and considers her own internal changes too. Pick up your own copy here.