July 20, 2025

CHRIS BANKS

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Chris Banks is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated Canadian poet and author of seven collections of poems, most recently Alternator with Nightwood Editions (Fall 2023). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Chris was an associate editor with The New Quarterly, and is Editor in Chief of The Woodlot – A Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays website. He lives and writes in Kitchener, Ontario.

I’m giving up skepticism’s time-share. I’m renegotiating

the terms of my lease. I want a clause that says I deserve

my share of happiness

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Basically, I want to smash all the frosted windows inside words so the great mysteries of this life shine through.

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