don’t get me wrong
I want the ocean too
even though I was born
in the heartbeat
of the country …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Amber McMillan is the author of This Is a Stickup (Wolsak & Wynn, 2022), The Running Trees (Goose Lane Editions, 2021), The Woods: A Year on Protection Island (Nightwood Editions, 2016), and We Can’t Ever Do This Again (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015). Her work has won a Penguin Random House award for fiction and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, and the Atlantic Book Awards. She lives in New Brunswick on Wolastoqey/Maliseet territory.