Open Theme Poetry Contest 2025 First Prize Winner: “Water, Aquarium” by Krista Lysack
Originally from the Swan River Valley in Manitoba (located on Treaty 4), Krista Lysack is an English professor at King’s University College here in London. She is the author of two academic books and numerous articles. A lyric essay, “Shelterbelt,” appears in a recent anthology, Speculative Nature Writing, published in the UK by Guillemot Press.