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We are proud to present Issue 16, Purge, a defiant new edition of The Polyglot featuring ten young artists (18-25) who refuse the censorship of knowledge and language, of books and bodies, of memory and history.
Edited by Brett Boyd, Mitch Dexter, Sophie Gareau-Brennan, and Adriana Oniță, this issue is a collective stand against censorship in all its forms. As the editors write: “What struck us was not only how distinct these youth voices are, but how each speaks to a different site of silencing while confronting the same threat: a widescale assault on our liberties to think, read, remember, write, experiment, love, and live freely.”
Whether through visual poetry, redacted texts, self-portraiture, photo-essays, copper etchings, or beadwork with +100 hours of sewing, these young artists simply refuse the way the world is 'given' to them. They do not flinch in the face of our era’s most violent erasures: consumer capitalism, media hypocrisy, the horrors of genocide, the suppression of ancestral languages and religions, and the internal weight of self-censorship.
From Alberta to Nigeria, from Iraq to Moldova, these ten young artists prove that writing and art can become a way of “asking the questions that could not be spoken out loud, of turning fear into reflection and confusion into form” (Hassan Ihssan Subhi).
We invite you to listen, ask questions, and learn from youth at every opportunity you are given.
🌍 Languages Featured: Arabic, Cree, Dene Gondi, English, Igbo, Romanian, Spanish, and Urdu.
🌀Price: $12 CAD for digital edition // $25 for print copy (limited edition, available at launch
☀️ Launch Details: Coming this Summer to Edmonton! Stay tuned for official date and venue announcements.
Contributors:
Miles Anderson
Isabella “Naakah” Carriere
Franz
Nadia Zamora Hernandez
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
Pip Maarschalk
Kiana Ramcharitar
Bia Siddiqui
Hassan Ihssan Subhi
Elizabeth W. J.
Layout & Design: Brett Boyd
Art on Cover: Nadia Zamora Hernandez
Managing Editor: Tamara Aschenbrenner
We are thrilled to present Issue 15, Daaira, a luminous new edition of The Polyglot exploring wellness, ritual, and community healing through poetry, prose, song, and art.
Guest edited by Aaima Azhar and Zainab Azhar, founders of Daaira House, this issue has been curated to capture what is well and unwell within us all. Meaning circle in Urdu and Arabic, Daaira embodies the cyclical nature of healing through ritual and remembrance.
As the editors write, “The healing will come. Let us first call it what it is. Let us make for it a little space. Let us draw around it a circle. Let us piece it together, together. Name it in more words than one.”
We invite you to sit in this circle with us—to rest, reflect, and re-member alongside the artists and writers whose voices fill these pages. May Daaira offer you a moment of stillness, of recognition, and of return.
🌀 Price: $12 CAD for digital edition // $25 for print copy. Please e-transfer $25 to thepolyglotmagazine@gmail.com if you wish to reserve your copy for our launch event on October 18 in Edmonton at LitFest.
Contributors:
April Angeles
Tamara Aschenbrenner
Aaima Azhar
Muhammad Azhar
Zainab Azhar
The Calamansi Club
Leilei Chen 莫譯
Luciana Erregue-Sacchi
Ohona Anjum Jui
Niabi Kapoor
Maryam Lary
Yannis Lobaina
Khashayar Kess Mohammadi
Qudus Olanrewaju Ojikutu
Siham Salah
Silly (Illyana Cardinal)
Angeline Teoh Simon
We are proud to present Issue 17, ᜑᜒᜎᜓᜋ᜔ HILOM, a transformative new edition of The Polyglot where artists offer collective intercultural expressions of grief, gratitude, and glory.
Edited by Candice Joy Oliva and April Angeles, in partnership with PHIDEAS and supported by the Alberta Ethnocultural Grant, this issue gathers voices from across the globe in a shared act of care and witnessing. As the editors write:
“Alchemy was at work with artists answering our call, transmuting their solitary grief into communal ᜑᜒᜎᜓᜋ ᜔ (Hilom). Together, they map out a journey for us to follow.”
Moving through luksa (mourning), returning to angkan (lineage), and arriving at pamana (inheritance), this issue reminds us that grief is not linear, nor solitary. It is ecological, linguistic, cultural. Held in the body, carried across generations, transformed through ritual, memory, and art.
Across poetry, essay, collage, and hybrid visual forms, these artists explore what it means to feel deeply in a world that often demands numbness. They resist desensitization, choosing instead to sit with complexity, to nourish themselves and one another, and to find healing in community: magsama tayo sa paghilom.
From intimate reflections to expansive cultural reckonings, HILOM offers not resolution, but a space to process, to remember, and to begin again—together.
🌍 Multilingual and cross-cultural expressions, including Baybayin script.
🌀 Price: $12 for digital, $29 for print copy, available at Edmonton Poetry Festival
☀️ Launch Details here.
Contributors:
Adrienne Adams
Janet Adebayo
alex carreon
Diana Crețu
Francesca Elena Dabdoub
Renato Gandia
Kelly Kaur
Hoho Kuo
Abbie Langmead
Sandy Lubuguin
Metalhead Melankolis
Khin Ohiman
Orevaoghene Jenkins Okpokpor
Eunju Park
Ting Pimentel-Elger
Hajer Requiq
Jesiebelle Salcedo
Trisha Mae Tolentino
Janvic Victorio
BuffNa Vũ
Layout & Design: Brett Boyd
Art on Cover: Eunju Park
Managing Editor: Tamara Aschenbrenner