ryan fitzpatrick is the author of Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks, forthcoming), Fortified Castles (Talonbooks, 2014), and Fake Math (Snare/Invisible, 2007), and fifteen chapbooks. With Jonathan Ball he edited Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac, 2014). He has participated in the literary communities of Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto. In Calgary, he was on the collective of filling Station magazine and was the organizer of the Flywheel Reading Series. In Vancouver, he earned his doctorate at Simon Fraser University, where he worked on contemporary Canadian poetry and space. In Toronto, he recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto Scarborough and was a co-organizer of the East Loft Salon Series with Rajinderpal S. Pal and Nikki Sheppy.

Part One
"21st Century Monsters"

Part Two
"Fortified Castles"

Part Three
"Friendship Is Magic"

Poems of interpersonal disconnection in an era when we are more socially connected than ever before.