dreaming of kaleidoscopes

By Chris Wind

Poetry from the poet’s late teens in the 1970s to her early thirties in the 1990s-sensitive, passionate, and most of all, illuminating.

scabs and scars
blowing across the snow
standing on a cliff
in a silent blizzard
crumbling
and dreaming of kaleidoscopes
all of the pieces always fit


“dreaming of kaleidoscopes is a top pick of poetry and is very much worth considering.” Midwest Book Review

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Apr 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781926891125

Chris Wind

chris wind has degrees in Literature, Education, and Philosophy. Her poetry has been published in Alpha, The Antigonish Review, Ariel, Atlantis, Bite, Bogg, Canadian Author and Bookman, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Woman Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, The Free Verse Anthology, Girlistic Magazine, grain, Interior Voice, Kola, Mamashee, The New Quarterly, Next Exit, Onionhead, Poetry Toronto, Prism International, Rampike, Shard, The University of Toronto Review, The Wascana Review, Whetstone, White Wall Review, Women's Education des femmes, and three anthologies (Clever Cats, ed. Ann Dubras; Going for Coffee, ed. Tom Wayman; Visions of Poesy, ed. Dennis Gould). "Luncheon on the Grass" was the motive poem for an exhibit by Brooks Bercovitch and Colton at the Galerie Schorer, Montreal (1998). Her prose has been read on CBC Radio and published in ACT, Alpha, American Atheist, The Antigonish Review, Canadian Woman Studies, event, Existere, (f.)Lip, Herizons, Herstoria, The Humanist, Humanist in Canada, Hysteria, The New Quarterly, Other Voices, Secular Nation, and Waves. Her theatrical works have been performed by 27th Letter (UK), Creative Curve (UK), Venus Theatre (US),  Laurel Theater, Alumnae Theatre, Theatre Resource Center, Theatre Asylum, Buddies in Bad Times, and A Company of Sirens (all in Canada). chris wind has received thirteen Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve grants based on publisher and theatre recommendation. chris wind was a panellist at the Canadian National Feminist Poetry Conference (Winnipeg, 1992), and featured in an article in The Montreal Gazette (1994). Lastly, chris wind is listed in "Who's Who in Hell" (probably because of "Faith," "The Great Jump-Off," and Thus Saith Eve).

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